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IranWatch Daily: November 18, 2025IranWatch
Nov 18, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 18, 2025

Brief Notes Tehran Denies Using MBS as Intermediary in U.S. Talks: Tehran claims that President Masoud Pezeshkian’s recent letter to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was strictly about thanking Riyadh for its cooperation in organizing safe Hajj pilgrimages for Iranians, dismissing speculation...

Iran’s ‘Private’ Banks Are Just the Ayatollah’s Cash MachinesIranWatch
Nov 18, 2025

Iran’s ‘Private’ Banks Are Just the Ayatollah’s Cash Machines

You might not know this, but the office park down the street or the luxury hotel in your city could be part of the Ayatollah’s financial network. Behind every “private” Iranian bank, there is a web of shell companies, crypto addresses, and real-estate fronts quietly washing the regime’s money into...

IranWatch Daily: November 17, 2025IranWatch
Nov 17, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 17, 2025

Brief Notes FM Says Tehran Supports ‘Unity’ for Lebanon: Islamic Republic Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Ali Hassan Khalil, a senior Lebanese MP of the Shia Amal Movement and a deputy to Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, on the sidelines of the “International Law Under Assault:...

IranWatch Daily: November 14, 2025IranWatch
Nov 14, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 14, 2025

Brief Notes IRGC Seizes Marshall Islands-Flagged Tanker in Strait of Hormuz: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intercepted the Marshall Islands-flagged crude oil tanker Talara today, forcing it towards Iranian territorial waters after it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. The tanker,...

IranWatch Daily: November 13, 2025IranWatch
Nov 13, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 13, 2025

Brief Notes Supreme Leader’s Restrictions on U.S. Talks Remain Unchanged: A senior official in the Office of the Supreme Leader, Mehdi Fazaeli, today said that restrictions on talks with the U.S. introduced by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have remained unchanged. He added, “Negotiations with the...

IranWatch Daily: November 12, 2025IranWatch
Nov 12, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 12, 2025

Brief Notes Despite Regime Crackdowns, Public Discontent Reaches Streets: Two individuals dressed as Artesh (the conventional Iranian Army, as opposed to the Islamic Republic’s IRGC) officers raised the pre-1979 lion-and-sun flag of Iran in a Tehran metro station today. Initial reports say...

IranWatch Daily: November 11, 2025IranWatch
Nov 11, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 11, 2025

Brief Notes Energy Industry, Healthcare Personnel Go on Strike: Thousands of workers at the critical South Pars gas field in southern Iran are staging demonstrations and have announced a weekly work stoppage over “longstanding grievances” at the site. Concurrently, videos posted to social media...

IranWatch Daily: November 10, 2025IranWatch
Nov 10, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 10, 2025

Brief Notes French Think Tank Says Regime Has ‘Infiltrated’ France: French think tank France2050, in its inaugural report, said the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Paris acts as “the European anchor of the Revolutionary Guards’ influence operations,” working to recruit journalists, academics, and...

IranWatch Daily: November 7, 2025IranWatch
Nov 7, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 7, 2025

Brief Notes Assassination of Israeli Ambassador Foiled by Mexican Authorities: U.S. and Israeli officials say Mexico’s security services foiled an Islamic Republic plot to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, last summer. The plan was allegedly orchestrated by Unit 11000...

IranWatch Daily: November 6, 2025IranWatch
Nov 6, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 6, 2025

Brief Notes FM Says Missile ‘Weaknesses Have Been Remedied’ Since 12-Day War: In a speech to university students in Hamadan Province this morning, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, “Our strength lay in our powerful missiles, which took control of the Zionist regime’s airspace…. For the first...

IranWatch Daily: November 5, 2025IranWatch
Nov 5, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 5, 2025

Brief Notes FM Says Military Strength Regained Following 12-Day War, ‘Enemy’ Seeking to Sow Division: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi today said, “The Armed Forces have employed all their capabilities for this, and our missile firepower is now significantly stronger than it was during the 12-Day...

IranWatch Daily: November 4, 2025IranWatch
Nov 4, 2025

IranWatch Daily: November 4, 2025

Brief Notes Minsk–Tehran Military Cooperation Continues: An Islamic Republic Air Force delegation led by Air Force commander Hamid Vahedi is on a working visit to Belarus to discuss “further ways of deepening cooperation in the field of air forces and air defense,” according to the Belarusian...