Iran

The funeral of a senior Iranian cleric on Tuesday triggered the country’s largest anti-government demonstration in years. Tens of thousands of Iranians marched against the Iranian leadership, chanted anti-regime slogans, and rallied in support of jailed opposition members: The protesters chanted slogans against the government and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei this week ordered that the country’s next president not make any concessions to the West. None: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Tuesday that the country’s next president should avoid making “concessions” to the west, saying this would not diffuse tensions over Tehran’s nuclear drive…...

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Iran may soon bring online its heavy-water research facility at Arak, a critical step in establishing for Tehran a second pathway for producing weapons-grade nuclear material. Tehran has a vast network of facilities widely believed to be aimed at producing a uranium-based bomb. The Arak facility would produce nuclear material necessary...

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Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) announced the discovery of an Israeli spy ring Sunday night. Western and Israeli sources with understanding of intelligence operations dismissed the claims According to MOIS, it uncovered a Mossad-trained network of terrorists with links to the spy agency of an Arab state, plotting...

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The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog blasted Iran on Monday for its intransigence during talks designed to reduce opacity around the country’s atomic program. His evaluation of the progress of negotiations was unsparing: Yukiya Amano also said his agency’s talks with Iran on unblocking an IAEA inquiry into possible...

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The number two official at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was forced to step down over disagreements regarding Iran’s nuclear program with his boss, the Japanese Director General (DG) Yukiya Amano. Officially it was announced last month that the contract of the Belgian Herman Nackaerts would not be renewed...

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