MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS

Our daily updates on US-Iran tensions. For the previous installment see this link. June 4 US-led Coalition meeting. "U.S. Secretary of St...

By MECRA STAFF After the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, hijab became compulsory for all school gi...

One of our researchers who follows Iranian social media and the recent incident in which a Jewish tomb was allegedly the site of an arson...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Recent moves by Iranian-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun (لواء فاطمیون) and Liwa Zainebiyoun, two units of Afghan and Pakistan...

For the previous edition of our coverage of US-Iran tensions daily updates, see this link March 22-May 1, 2020. May 1 Rocket fire from Is...

“There are large families with four or five students, and it is not possible for all of them to get a smartphone in Iran."

More than four months after Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned, and after two other Prime Minister-designates failed to form a gove...

Iranians have been trying to break out of prison amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The US and Iran are preparing for a new round in Iraq.

Since the last edition (March 21-26) and the March 11 of the Middle East Coronavirus Daily Update (MECDU) we have seen major rises in the...

Robert Levinson's family posted on social media that “We received received information from US officials that has led both them and us to...

By MECRA STAFF Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader recently refused the US offer to help Iran fight coronavirus. Nevertheless, due ...

Read our previous installment March 12-21, 2020 of the daily updates of US-Iran tensions at this link. March 22 A look at the satellite p...

Coronavirus threatens the Middle East

March 11 7:35pm (Baghdad time): Rockets strike Camp Taji, Iraq. 8:26pm (Baghdad time) Iraqi security forces release images of the truck a...

Coronavirus threatens the Middle East

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A rocket attack on Camp Taji Iraq on march 11 has killed Americans and has led to tensions in Iraq. CENTCOM says "Th...

View the previous live updates of the Middle East Coronavirus Daily Update (MECDU): First installment: February 15-25 Second Installment:...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani (علی شمخانی) made a high profi...

This timeline is the second part of a timeline that goes back to 2017, see the first part here. It seeks to include details about rising ...