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CSIS Satellite Imagery Analysis Reveals Possible Signs of Renewed Nuclear Activity in Iran
On October 18, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced that all of its obligations under the 10-year-old Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—the Iran deal—have expired. This declaration formally ends all international oversight of Iran’s nuclear program. Since the June attacks on Iran’s nuclear program by the United States and Israel, Iran has pushed its nuclear program into a new era. Iran’s program is increasingly defined by strategic opacity, operational chaos, and a likely internal culture of fear. New satellite imagery points to emerging risks from Iran’s nuclear program despite the damage from the U.S. and Israeli strikes.
Days before the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi stated that Iran was constructing a third enrichment site near Isfahan. There is an underground tunnel just to the north of Isfahan, which is likely the site of the new enrichment facility.
Iran, Russia and The New Zealand Insurer That Kept Their Sanctioned Oil Flowing
AUCKLAND/LONDON – Last Christmas, the tanker Yug cruised out of the Chinese port of Qingdao after offloading 2 million barrels of sanctioned Iranian oil. Near the Arctic, a vessel carrying Russian crude churned through icy seas, bound for India. Six thousand miles away, a third ship unloaded its cargo of Iranian oil off the coast of Malaysia. The three tankers had different owners, different operators and different clients. But they shared one thing: a small insurer headquartered in New Zealand, backstopped by some of the world’s biggest reinsurance firms.
The company, Maritime Mutual, is run by 75-year-old Briton Paul Rankin and family members. For more than two decades, it has insured everything from tugboats to ferries and cargo ships.
Maritime Mutual has also helped in the trade of tens of billions of dollars of Iranian and Russian oil by providing vessels skirting Western sanctions with the insurance they need to enter ports, according to a Reuters review of thousands of shipping and insurance records, hundreds of oil trades and sanctions designations, and interviews with more than two dozen people with knowledge of the company.
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Yemen’s Interior Minister to Asharq Al-Awsat: Several Hezbollah Operatives Arrested in Aden
Brigadier General Ibrahim Haidan, Yemen’s Minister of Interior, said that Yemeni security forces have detained several members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, as well as Syrian and Iranian nationals, who were involved in drug trafficking and in supporting the Houthi militias. He noted that these individuals were linked to narcotics smuggling networks that moved from Syria to Yemen after the fall of the Assad regime.
The minister added that security officers arrested two men at Aden International Airport — one affiliated with Hezbollah and the other a Syrian national. The arrests took place following an airstrike on the Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport, which led to the cancellation of flights. According to Haidan, the detained experts had attempted to pass through Aden Airport posing as tourists and remain in custody there.
In an extensive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Brig. Gen. Haidan further explained that “a Yemeni court recently sentenced six Iranians to death for smuggling several tons of narcotics. The defendants were convicted of belonging to a major network linked to regional trafficking organizations that finance the Houthi militias.”
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The Implosion of Ayandeh Bank: A Case Study in The Iranian Regime’s Economic Warfare on Its Own People
On September 26, a member of the regime’s parliament, Amirhossein Sabeti, triumphantly announced that the dissolution of the “corrupt Ayandeh Bank” was the start of a broader cleanup that would solve the country’s inflation crisis. This is a calculated deception. The spectacular failure of Ayandeh Bank is not an isolated incident but a clear symptom of the terminal illness afflicting the ruling theocracy: systemic corruption. The regime itself has been forced to admit to the existence of a “seven-headed dragon of corruption” and “unprecedented embezzlement in history” woven into the fabric of its rule.
Mahboubeh Jalali, 38, Executed in Lakan Prison, Rasht
In the early hours of Saturday, October 25, 2025, the death sentence of Mahboubeh Jalali, a 38-year-old woman from Rudsar, was carried out in Lakan Prison in the northern Iranian city of Rasht. Mahboubeh Jalali had been arrested around four years ago on drug-related charges and had since been held on death row awaiting execution. With the execution of Mahboubeh Jalali, the number of women executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025 has reached 45, marking an unprecedented record in the execution of women in Iran. In the entire 2024, 34 women were executed across the country.
Iranians in Gothenburg Rally for a Free Iran and Support Maryam Rajavi’s Democratic Vision
Gothenburg, Sweden – October 25, 2025 – Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) gathered in Gothenburg to reaffirm their backing for Maryam Rajavi’s Third Option and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) as the only viable democratic alternative to Iran’s theocratic regime. The rally also marked the anniversary of Maryam Rajavi’s election as the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance.
Toronto Rally Denounces Iran Executions, Calls for Support of Political Prisoners
Toronto, Canada – October 25, 2025 – Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a rally to protest the Iranian regime’s growing use of the death penalty, particularly against political prisoners. The gathering also voiced solidarity with the “No to Execution” campaign.
Stockholm Rally Condemns Iran Executions, Urges Support for Political Prisoners
Stockholm, Sweden – October 25, 2025 – Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a rally outside the Swedish Foreign Ministry to protest the Iranian regime’s growing use of the death penalty, particularly against political prisoners. The gathering also voiced solidarity with the “No to Execution” campaign.
Judges of Death: Executors of the Mullahs’ Criminal Policies
In the darkest decades of Iran’s modern history, the judiciary has not been a refuge for the oppressed but one of the most ruthless arms of the regime’s religious–authoritarian repression. The judiciary, which should safeguard justice, liberty, and human dignity, has for over four decades turned into a field of lawlessness and systemic violence — a cruel instrument to silence critics, political opponents, religious and ethnic minorities, intellectuals, and artists. In this system, judges are not representatives of the law but unquestioning enforcers of the Supreme Leader’s will. Those who were supposed to protect justice have instead wielded the blade against the people. These are the individuals rightly remembered in the collective memory of Iranians as the “Judges of Death.”
Iran’s Regime Shifted Drug and Weapons Smuggling Operations to Yemen After Assad’s Fall
Yemen’s Interior Minister Ibrahim Haidan stated that after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, Iran’s regime transferred its narcotics and weapons smuggling operations to Yemen. He said in an interview with Al Hadath TV on Sunday, October 26, 2025, that the Syrians arrested in Yemen were drug-manufacturing experts who had entered the country under the guise of tourists. Haidan reported close security cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s legitimate government, adding that relations between the two sides “are at their best level.”
Khamenei’s Mouthpiece Admits $90 Billion in Unreturned Export Revenues, Exposes Deep Economic Corruption
In a rare public acknowledgment of large-scale corruption within Iran’s ruling system, Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of Kayhan and the main mouthpiece of Ali Khamenei, admitted that over $90 billion in export revenues have not been returned to the country’s central bank. In a commentary published on October 25, Shariatmadari sharply criticized “private, state, and quasi-state companies” for refusing to repatriate foreign currency earned through exports, calling it a “shameful act” equivalent to “plundering national wealth.” While presented as an attack on corrupt officials, the article reflects a deeper power struggle within the regime, as Khamenei’s loyalist media seeks to deflect blame for Iran’s worsening economic collapse away from the Supreme Leader and his economic institutions.