Kataib al-Imam Ali, an Iraqi Shiite militia with strong ties to Iran, is headed by a terrorist with a long record of attacking American interests according to terrorism experts Matthew Levitt and Phillip Smyth in a paper published by the Washington Institute of Near East Policy on Monday. Levitt and Smyth...

A news site belonging to Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) revealed a plan (Arabic link) by which Iran intends to gain control over Yemen. The plan lists three different tactics that the rebel Houthi Shiites in Yemen “have to take” in order to conquer the whole country. According to the Amarion website (Persian...

In the lead article of the January 2015 issue of Commentary, Omri Ceren writes that despite assurances from the Obama administration that the nuclear negotiations with Iran would halt Iran’s progress towards a nuclear bomb, the Iranians have instead been “protected from new pressure and allowed to pursue their work toward obtaining...

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sharply attacked (Arabic link) official Iranian media outlets, accusing them of spreading lies and perpetuating anarchy throughout the Islamic Republic. Rafsanjani is now the chairman of the Iranian Expediency Discernment Council, an assembly which has an important advisory role to the Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali...

In a year-end interview with Steve Inskeep of NPR, Sen. Marco Rubio said that he expected legislation forcing an up or down Congressional vote on any deal with Iran to come up early in this legislative session: Al-Monitor reports: Probably the first vote in my sense will be something that...

After a quarter of a century of tensions, Saudi Arabia is moving to normalize its relations with Iraq. The improvement in relations between the two countries gradually began with the visit of Iraqi President Fouad Massoum to the Kingdom in November 2014. In addition, the fight against radical movements in...