Although Tehran has not complained about the lack of military support from Russia and China during the 12-day Iran-Israel war, many voices in Iran felt abandoned by them.

Read my analysis on BBC Persian if the "Look to the East" policy has failed to protect Iran.

www.bbc.com/persian/arti...

New satellite images released by Maxar show the extent of damage at Iran's Shahid Rajaee port following a huge explosion on 26 April vs how it used to look like.

A large crater is visible where the main blast occured, with damage to surrounding containers and buildings.

Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents of Mariupol.

BBC Verify has analysed dozens of official documents published since July 2024 that show at least 5,700 homes have been identified for seizure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

There is, of course, a mountain of visual evidence documenting the killings of civilians in Bucha.

Claims by Russian government officials at the time that videos and images of dead civilians in Bucha were "staged" were so bad that they were easily debunked within hours.

Iranian domestic and foreign-based media have observed that a US flag was not painted on the floor next to an Israeli flag in an IRGC missile facility unveiled on 25 March. It is a common practice in Iran to paint the two flags on floor or ground for people to walk over and trample on them. 1/4

This is the video we made one week on from President Trump and President Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office. It's a week that included the US pausing military aid to Ukraine - and Russia continuing to attack. (First published 7.3.25) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3x9...

Our latest video takes five minutes to look at Donald Trump's history with Ukraine. It's produced by Catherine Karelli. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Tucker Carlson claims that Ukraine has been selling "huge quantities of American weapons on the black market", which he says have been bought by Hamas, Mexican drug cartels and the HTS in Syria.

This is a claim pushed by the Kremlin for nearly three years, but there's no evidence for it.

Khamenei yesterday tweeted in Ukrainian (and Persian) a message he tweeted three years ago, days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that the West's support for allies is "mirage", giving Ukraine as example. Interesting, he omitted another example he had named in the original tweet - Afghanistan.

As the world is marking the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Iran used the Russian-made Yak-130 fighter jet in a military drill for the first time today. Iran announced in September 2023 receiving Yak-130 jets from Russia. Iran has for years sought buying Su-35 jets from...