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Since the end of the Iran–Iraq War, Iran's new foreign policy has had a dramatic effect on its global standing. Relations with the European Union have dramatically improved, to the point where Iran is a major oil exporter and a trading partner with such countries as Italy , France, and Germany.
Israel has degraded Tehran's proxy forces and delivered punishing airstrikes against Iran itself. And Iran just lost one of its most important allies in the region: the Assad regime. From Gaza to ...
Several Palestinian militant groups, including Hamas, are close Iranian allies. The Iranian government also gives substantial assistance to the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, which depends on foreign aid for an estimated 90% of its budget.
The Axis of Resistance [a] is an informal coalition of Iranian-supported militias and political organizations across the Middle East. [30] Formed by Iran, it unites actors committed to countering the influence of the United States and Israel in the region.
The latest strikes come as Iran’s allies and proxies in the Middle East – the so-called axis of resistance – launch attacks on Israeli forces and its allies against the backdrop of the war ...
In past years, Iranian-backed militias in Iraq regularly targeted U.S. forces in Iraq and the U.S. embassy in Baghdad with rockets, though such attacks have abated under a truce in place since ...
On 12 January, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah called for Iran's allies in the Axis of Resistance—including Iran, the Syrian Arab Republic, Hezbollah, the Popular Mobilization Forces, and the Houthi movement in Yemen—to intensify its military campaigns against the U.S. to expel U.S. forces from the Middle East. [244]
The shock Hamas incursion into Israel was of a scale and sophistication that was previously considered unthinkable. Was Iran involved?