by Dave Patterson | Oct 21, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Rockets and drones targeted the US Ain al-Asad base in Iraq Thursday, October 19. Such strikes on American military bases have increased following the recent Hamas attack on Israel – but they were far from rare already. For several years, periodic missile, rocket, and...
by Andrew Moran | Sep 20, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
The Iranian government has ostensibly launched a new cash-for-prisoners scheme. Here is how it works: Iran takes foreign hostages, uses them as leverage for future negotiations with Western governments, and receives cash for prisoner swaps. President Joe Biden has...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 27, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
On Thursday, March 23, Iranian-sponsored militias rocketed a US base near Hasakah, Syria, where the anti-aircraft system was not fully installed. As a result, one US defense contractor was killed and five US service members and one other American were injured....
by Dave Patterson | Jan 30, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Is it karma, perhaps? Iran has provided deadly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to Russia for use in Ukraine and on Jan. 28, small Israeli UAVs began to rain down fire on Iranian targets in the dark of night. One specific military facility was reported hit by what is...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 22, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
The Iranian Parliament on Feb. 20 issued negotiation conditions to re-start nuclear talks with the U.S. and European diplomats. The IRNA news agency, Tehran’s official party-line information outlet, reported that 250 of the 290 parliamentarians published a...