In a heartwarming show of international solidarity — or perhaps nuclear trolling — Russia today announced its willingness to give sanctuary to Iran’s enriched uranium. Not Iranian people, of course. Just the radioactive stuff. Human beings from the Middle East, other than current and deposed tyrants and their families, remain notably less welcome in Moscow than uranium hexafluoride.

Israel’s latest military strike on Iran, dubbed 'Operation Rising Lion', was more than a show of force—it was a political signal. While missiles targeted IRGC infrastructure and killed its head, the operation’s name also raised immediate questions: was this a nod to Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last Shah, who uses the lion as his personal symbol and brand?

As Syria embraces hard-won freedom after almost 14 years of revolution and war and over half a century of tyranny, both Israel and Iran are increasingly focused on the same objective: to undermine the new government and weaken Syrian unity.

In a statement that might have been mistaken for satire if it weren’t official policy, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian announced this week that Iran would "pause engagement" with Syria "until stability is restored."

The remark, from an interview with Russia Today, also published by Russian state news agency TASS on Friday, comes just over four months after the collapse of the Assads' bloody regime, propped up by Tehran for almost 14 years.

Iranian militiamen on Tuesday (June 16) killed a group of shepherds in the countryside of Raqqa Governorate in northeastern Syria.

Citing the Al-Khabour news website and local sources, Call Syria reported, "The massacre took place yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, when Iranian militias launched an attack on the homes of shepherds near the village of "Ghanem Al-Ali" in the southeastern countryside of Raqqa."

Horrifying 'souvenir' footage taken from a member of the Iraqi regime-backed 'Imam Ali' extremist Shiite militia shows a Sunni Iraqi man being burnt alive by members of the militia, which is is one of those currently involved in fighting against Daesh (the so-called 'Islamic State') in Iraq.

A United Nations report revealed that Iran has been arming the Houthis since 2009, confirming accusations made by Arab and Western countries against Tehran regarding its support of the Houthis who have been in control of Yemeni state institutions since last September.

The details were revealed in an UN report by a panel of experts was presented to the Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee at a time when the UN is seeking to broker a return to peace talks.

Syrian state TV Thursday abruptly suspended its non-news and political programming in a telling sign of how sharply the tide has turned against President Bashar Assad’s regime in recent weeks.