JNS.org – You don’t hear that much these days about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president whose penchant for denying the Holocaust at every opportunity became legendary. If conventional wisdom is to be taken at face value, the reason for that is simple: The era of Ahmadinejad came to an...

The media narrative that “moderates” or “pragmatists” won landslide victories in last week’s Iranian elections “could not be further from the truth,” Iranian dissident Saeed Ghasseminejad wrote in the National Interest on Friday. Ghasseminejad, who is currently an associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explained that the...

An openly gay Iranian poet who is seeking asylum in Israel has received an eight-month visa extension from the country’s interior ministry. Payam Feili, whose native Iran considers homosexuality to be a crime punishable by death, was granted a tourist visa to visit Israel in December and applied for asylum...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) labeled the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah a terrorist organization on Wednesday. The move comes on the heels of Saudi Arabia’s decision to halt $4 billion in military aid to Lebanon due to its domination by Iran through Hezbollah, as well as Saudi government warnings to...

Osama bin Laden ordered his al-Qaeda deputies not to attack Iran, which he called a “main artery” for his terror organization’s operations, recently-disclosed documents from his Pakistan compound reveal. The order was part of a collection of 112 letters taken from bin Laden’s compound by U.S. special ops forces after he was killed in 2011....

The CEO of an American metallurgical firm was arrested on charges of illegally smuggling metals to Iran that could be used for aerospace, missile, and even nuclear use, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Erdal Kuyumcu, the CEO of  Global Metallurgy LLC, allegedly exported cobalt-nickel powder to Iran twice without first...