Ali Alfoneh

Ali Alfoneh is a Visiting Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

Author Articles

A Pakistani border security official (R) and an Iranian border official meet at Zero Point in the Pakistan-Iran border town of Taftan, on October 16. (AFP)
Tehran’s neglect has bred trouble in Iran’s periphery
November 10, 2018
A Danish policeman stands guard outside a building in Copenhagen. (AFP)
Tehran’s terror reaches the shores of Denmark
November 03, 2018
New IRGC-KACB chief Saeed Mohammad (L), outgoing IRGC-KACB chief Brigadier-General Ebadollah Abdollahi (C) and IRGC commander Major-General Mohammad Ali Jafari. (Tasnim)
Generational change within IRGC adds to tensions
October 20, 2018
The conference room of the Zahra Centre, the headquarters of a Shia association in northern France, after it was raided by 200 policemen, on October 2. (AFP)
Iranian terror plots send a message to opposition abroad
October 13, 2018
Seeking solace. Iranians walk past items being sold for Noruz, a Zoroastrian tradition, at Sadeqyeh Square in Tehran. (AFP)
Iranians turning away from religious orthodoxy
October 06, 2018
A prelude to a new course. A soldier runs past injured comrades lying on the ground at the scene of an attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, on September 22. (AFP)
Tehran regime taking advantage of Ahvaz attack
September 29, 2018
Iranian mourners hold portraits of a young member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was killed in Syria. (AFP)
Not a scream nor a whimper from Tehran as Israel deals blows
September 22, 2018
Copies of “Fear: Trump in the White House” by Bob Woodward on display at Book Passage in Corte Madera in California. (AFP)
Woodward tells story of Trump’s policymaking and sources of influence on Iran
September 22, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during a session of the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, on September 3. (Reuters)
In Iraq, Tehran plays with fire
September 15, 2018
A wounded Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-I) walks after a rocket attack in Koysinjaq, on September 8. (AFP)
Missiles and executions mark Iran’s escalation of conflict with Kurds
September 15, 2018
Leader of the Shia militia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq Qais al-Khazali (C) speaks to his followers in Baghdad, last May 7. (AP)
Does it matter that Washington outed Tehran’s agent in Iraq?
September 08, 2018
A woman walks past a beggar in Tehran. (AFP)
Iranian oligarchs bask in wealth while others suffer
September 01, 2018
Holding to power. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting in Tehran, on August 13. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
Iran’s supreme leader: Not infallible, after all
August 18, 2018
Under pressure. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) sits next to President Hassan Rohani (2nd-L) during a government meeting in Tehran. (Office of Iran’s Supreme Leader)
External and internal threats split Tehran regime
August 11, 2018
An Iranian Kurdish man arrives at the Iran-Iraq border crossing of Haji Omran, last January. (AFP)
Iran’s porous periphery faces armed challenge
August 04, 2018
US President Donald Trump (R) talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a cabinet meeting, on July 18. (AP)
Trump’s Iran policy: The mother of all confusion
July 28, 2018
Iranians take part in an anti-US and anti-Israeli demonstration in Tehran, last May. (AFP)
Iran’s IRGC plays Palestinian tunes but only provides threadbare propaganda
July 21, 2018
Dead trees and an abandoned house at a field that farmers left due to the lack of water in a village near the southern Iranian city of Sirjan. (AFP)
As water crisis deepens, Tehran accuses Israel of ‘cloud theft’
July 07, 2018
In trouble. A vendor counts money in a shop in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar. (Reuters)
Falling rial has Iranians slamming regional adventurism
June 30, 2018
A propaganda billboard for the pro-Iran Kata’ib Hezbollah militia hanging on a pedestrian crossing in Baghdad. (AFP)
Unclaimed strikes bring further complexity to Syria’s intractable war
June 23, 2018