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Hossein Taeb: The Hard-Line Spymaster Behind Iran's Return to War

Times Now · WorldNews · 2026-09-13

Hossein Taeb: The Hard-Line Spymaster Behind Iran's Return to War

At the start of July, Iran ’s President Masoud Pezeshkian appeared to be on solid ground. He had just helped broker a peace deal with the U.S. and was in Iraq for a week of funeral events for Iran’s assassinated supreme leader. Then everything changed in an instant. Iranian forces opened fire on three commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, setting a Qatari LNG tanker ablaze and damaging other ships.

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