Iran - the IRGC eyeing the presidency?

AX INTEL ANALYSIS: Iran - the IRGC eyeing the presidency?
DATE: 07JUL2020

With the election of former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “Second Phase of the Revolution” is well under way in two of the three branches of government in the Islamic Republic. All eyes have now turned to the presidency, with elections less than one year away.
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Iran - secret project to produce aluminum for missiles

AX INTEL ANALYSIS: Iran - secret project to produce aluminum for missiles
DATE: 24JUN2020

At the edge of the desert in North Khorasan province in northeast Iran, near the country’s largest deposit of bauxite, sits an aluminum production complex that the government has publicly hailed as a key part of its efforts to boost output of the metal.

But the site near the city of Jajarm is also home to a secret facility set up by Iran’s elite security force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, that has been producing aluminum powder for use in its missile program…
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US-Iran and impact on Iraq

AX INTEL ANALYSIS: US-Iran and impact on Iraq
DATE: 21APR2020

While Iraq’s domestic political crisis continues, the geopolitical face-off between the U.S. and Iran has broadened out, ensnaring civic actors in a mainly military (non)confrontation. Militias have launched rockets at the Green Zone in Baghdad, which houses government buildings and all international representation, seemingly in line with the wishes of their strongest political and financial backers in Tehran…
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Yemen - War primer

AX INTEL BULLETIN: Yemen - Background on the war
DATE: 26SEP2019

Many international commentators continue to present the war in Yemen through the lens of Saudi Arabian intervention or sectarian conflict. This narrative has even influenced the US Congress, where some members have passed legislation that rests on the assumption that the war is between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, rather than…
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