Ali Alfoneh

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

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C-L) during a meeting with members of Iran’s Expert Assembly in Tehran, September 26. (AFP)
Electors of Iran’s next leader cannot even protect themselves against IRGC
November 09, 2019
Anti-government protesters gather for a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, October 26. (AP)
In Iraq, Iran tastes its own medicine
November 06, 2019
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C-L) during the graduation of military cadets in Tehran, October 30. (AFP)
Iranian regime sees major challenge in region’s protests
November 02, 2019
Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani speaks during an interview in Tehran, October 1. (AFP)
What does Iran’s Soleimani think of Hezbollah’s Nasrallah?
October 19, 2019
On cloud nine. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, February 25. (AP)
Iran never objects to Trump when he is making a mistake
October 12, 2019
Iranian-American national Baqer Namazi (L) and his son Siamak. (AP)
The singular ordeal of Iran’s dual nationals
October 05, 2019
Members of the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement's security stand guard during a religious procession in a suburb of Beirut, September 10. (AFP)
Through sycophancy, Nasrallah begs Iran for more funds
September 29, 2019
Same old themes. Members of the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement’s security stand guard during a religious procession in a suburb of Beirut, September 10. (AFP)
Sycophantic Nasrallah begs Iran for more funds
September 28, 2019
US President Donald Trump (L) walks next to new national security adviser Robert O’Brien at Los Angeles International Airport, September 18. (AFP)
‘Locked and loaded,’ US still reluctant to directly challenge Iran
September 21, 2019
A man with a mission. Veteran media executive and debutant memoirist Mohammad Sarafraz.(Courtesy of Mohammad Sarafraz)
Blame Khamenei: Memoirs of a media executive
September 07, 2019
Risky gambles. An Iranian cleric walks past a mural painting of the national flag, August 27. (AFP)
Preconditions hinder Trump-Rohani summit
August 31, 2019
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) meets with Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in Tehran, August 13. (AFP)
Appointment of Houthi ambassador to Iran is bad news for Yemen
August 24, 2019
Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani (C), commander of al-Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), attends a graduation ceremony of IRGC officers in Tehran. (AP)
Why did Soleimani blow cover of an IRGC al-Quds Force arm?
August 17, 2019
Iranian worshippers take part in prayers at the Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran with a poster of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. (AFP)
Open letters underscore Iranians’ frustration with Khamenei’s rule
August 17, 2019
Members of the crew of the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero that was seized by Tehran in the Strait of Hormuz on July 22. (AP)
Iran’s new tanker wars are a dangerous strategy
July 27, 2019
Under pressure. Iranian Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Supreme National Security Council secretary, in Tehran, last March.(AFP)
Shamkhani caught between Iranian president and IRGC
July 20, 2019
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stands in his office in Tehran, July 10. (AFP)
Middle East battling for Trump’s psyche and Iran is learning fast
July 13, 2019
A scene from from the Iranian TV series “Gando.” (YouTube)
‘Gando’ TV series stirs up spy scare in Iran
July 06, 2019
Far-right protesters shout slogans against the arrival of migrants at the Catholic Church centre ‘Mondo Migliore’ in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, last August. (AFP)
EU combats terrorism on social media but radicalism endures
June 22, 2019
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Reuters)
Iran’s shift from ‘heroic stability’ to balance of terror
June 15, 2019