The Levant Files

Για την προτότυπη αγγλική έκδοση κάντε κλικ .  Για να διαβάσετε στα τουρκικά το άρθρο κάντε κλικ .   Σε ένα σπάνιο και σαφές μήνυμα προς την Ανατολική Μεσόγειο, δύο ανώτεροι Ιρανοί αξιωματούχοι ασφαλείας, μιλώντας υπό τον όρο της ανωνυμίας στο The Levant Files (TLF) μέσω υποστηρικτών και εθελοντών της περσόφωνης υπηρεσίας της ιστοσελίδας μας, περιέγραψαν τη μεταβαλλόμενη στάση της Τεχεράνης απέναντι στα κράτη της περιοχής που βρίσκονται εγκλωβισμένα ανάμεσα στις δυτικές στρατιωτικές υποδομές και τη διευρυνόμενη αντιπαράθεση της Ισλαμικής Δημοκρατίας με τις ΗΠΑ και το Ισραήλ. Οι δηλώσεις αυτές, οι οποίες αποσαφηνίζουν σημαντικά τη θέση του Ιράν απέναντι σε χώρες που είναι ευθυγραμμισμένες με το ΝΑΤΟ και την ΕΕ αλλά δεν εμπλέκονται άμεσα στις εχθροπραξίες, όπως η Κύπρος και η Ελλάδα, έρχονται εν μέσει ενός νέου διπλωματικού αδιεξόδου μετά την τελευταία συνάντηση του Ισραηλινού Πρωθυπουργού με τον Πρόεδρο των ΗΠΑ στην Ουάσινγκτον. «Φιλική» Προειδοποίηση σε Λευκωσία και Αθήνα Αναφ...

Yazının orjinal İngilizce versiyonu için tıklayın .   Doğu Akdeniz’e yönelik nadir ve net bir mesaj veren iki üst düzey İranlı güvenlik yetkilisi, Tahran'ın bölge ülkelerine yönelik değişen tutumunu gözler önüne serdi. The Levant Files’ın (TLF) deneme safhasındaki Farsça servisinde çalışan destekçiler ve gönüllüler aracılığıyla ve adlarının açıklanmaması şartıyla konuşan yetkililer; Batı askerî altyapısı ile İslam Cumhuriyeti'nin ABD ve İsrail ile derinleşen çatışması arasında kalan bölge devletlerine ilişkin değerlendirmelerde bulundu. İran'ın Kıbrıs ve Yunanistan gibi NATO ve AB müttefiki olan ancak çatışmalara doğrudan taraf olmayan ülkelere yönelik tutumuna belirgin bir açıklık getiren bu açıklamalar; İsrail Başbakanı ile ABD Başkanı'nın Washington'daki son görüşmesinin ardından yaşanan yeni bir diplomatik hareketlilik sürecinde geldi. Lefkoşa ve Atina’ya "Dostane" Uyarı Tahran’ın, süregelen çatışmaya doğrudan dâhil olmayan bölge ülkelerine karşı bir d...

A fetus lost at the Awarta checkpoint, a woman forced to walk through a closed gate mid-labour, two other births forced en route to hospital: as Israel's military tightens its grip on Nablus following deadly clashes near the village of Tal, Palestinian medics say pregnant women are bearing the sharpest edge of a closure regime that has choked the city for four consecutive days.   A pregnant Palestinian woman from the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, lost her fetus on Monday after Israeli soldiers held her ambulance for more than half an hour at the Awarta military checkpoint, according to paramedic Bashar al-Qaryouti, who spoke to AFP and the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The incident, reported by The National, The New Arab, Al Jazeera and the AFP-sourced HNGN wire, has become the emblematic case of a wider pattern medics describe as pregnant women being repeatedly denied timely passage through Israeli checkpoints amid a sweeping military crackdown around Nablus. According to al...

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Tuesday for his seventh visit to the United States since President Donald Trump's second inauguration, a comprehensive review by Israeli newspaper Haaretz has laid bare a striking pattern: a trail of grand promises made at previous meetings that have gone largely unfulfilled. According to Haaretz, which revisited all six prior encounters between the two leaders at the White House and Mar-a-Lago over the past 18 months, nearly every major pledge made publicly has failed to materialize. The pattern began on February 4, 2025, when Trump announced plans to "take over the Gaza Strip" and transform it into the "Riviera of the Middle East," while proposing the relocation of Gaza's entire Palestinian population. As Haaretz reports, the U.S. never took control of Gaza, no mass transfer occurred, and both Egypt and Jordan publicly refused to participate. Trade promises have similarly fallen short. D...

In a rare and pointed message directed at the Eastern Mediterranean, two senior Iranian security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to The Levant Files through supporters and volunteers of its Persian-language service, have outlined Tehran's evolving posture toward regional states caught between Western military infrastructure and the Islamic Republic's widening confrontation with the United States and Israel. The remarks, which represent a significant clarification of Iran's position toward NATO and EU-aligned but non-belligerent states such as Cyprus and Greece, come amid a renewed diplomatic deadlock following the latest meeting between Israeli Prime Minister and the US President in Washington. A "Friendly" Warning to Nicosia and Athens Addressing whether Tehran harbors any animosity toward countries in the region that have not directly entered the ongoing conflict, the sources drew a sharp distinction between governments and peoples. "The Islam...

Executions in Alikhani Square draw condemnation as citizens attempt to halt hangings; Israeli officials signal continued appetite for strikes on Iran despite US restraint   Iran executed two men convicted over their roles in the January 2026 nationwide protests early on Tuesday, hanging them in Isfahan's Alikhani Square after crowds of citizens gathered overnight in an unsuccessful attempt to halt the executions, according to Iran International. The outlet reported that judiciary-linked Mizan Online identified the two as Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi and Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani, part of a group of twelve men sentenced to death in the so-called Alikhani Square case, which stemmed from unrest that erupted in the square on 8 January. Two other defendants in the same case, Golmohammad Mohammadi and Erfan Esfandiari, were executed on 19 July, bringing the total number of executions linked to the case to four, with eight defendants still under sentence of death. According to Iran Inter...

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to present President Trump with intelligence showing that Iran is expanding its nuclear infrastructure at the secretive Pickaxe Mountain site, and that Tehran is not negotiating in good faith despite claiming interest in continued peace talks, according to a source in Jerusalem cited by the New York Post. Netanyahu was set to meet with Trump on Monday, with the Iran war and Tehran's nuclear program expected to dominate the agenda. During the meeting, Netanyahu's team planned to present evidence of Iran's latest nuclear activity and argue that the regime is not currently negotiating sincerely, the source told the Post. According to reporting cited by the Post, Israel has uncovered evidence that nuclear centrifuges recently arrived at the Pickaxe Mountain facility for the first time since construction began in 2020 — a finding first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The facility sits more than 300 feet beneath Kolang ...

  An unprecedented battlefield partnership between a separatist movement and an al-Qaeda affiliate has transformed the conflict in northern Mali, shifting the military balance and deepening divisions over how, if at all, the war can end. When the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) launched a joint offensive on April 25, 2026, the conflict entered a phase unlike any before. A war that had long pitted the Malian state against multiple armed groups gave way to a coordinated campaign stretching from Kidal and Anefis to Tilemsi, Gao and Sevare, posing the most serious challenge to the Malian army in years and to Russia’s Africa Corps, the Kremlin-backed force that replaced the Wagner Group in Mali. Since then, the fighting has been marked by simultaneous assaults, ambushes, drone strikes and attacks on military convoys, with all sides claiming significant battlefield gains. Bamako says it is working to restore state authority and dismantle what...

  Iran has issued a series of escalating warnings to Bulgaria over Sofia's decision to host American aerial refuelling aircraft, marking one of the first times an EU and NATO member state in the Balkans has been directly threatened with consequences over the widening US-Iran conflict. The dispute began on 21 July, when Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei responded to reports that Washington had submitted a diplomatic note requesting approval for the deployment of up to eight Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft and up to 250 US troops at Bezmer Air Base in south-eastern Bulgaria between 24 July and 1 October. Baghaei said any activity facilitating US attacks on Iran would amount to complicity in what he called "aggression and war crimes", and urged Bulgaria not to become "an accomplice of aggressors and lawbreakers".  The warning failed to change the outcome. Bulgaria's National Assembly approved the measure on 22 July by 136 votes to 13, with two ab...