Iran’s regime-linked Mehr News Agency is blaming Pope Benedict XIV’s resignation on “Zionists.” Iran has in recent years blamed Zionists for homosexuality, the drug trade, film, and the Olympic logo — and more seriously for fabricating evidence that Iran had sought to murder the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. on American...

Fifty-six members of the House of Representatives sent a letter this week to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Secretary of State John Kerry urging them to take action against Iranian efforts to reflag its vessels, a tactic that Tehran uses to disguise the origin of ships it uses to transport illicit...

A network of spy stations is transmitting information from Lebanon to Iran, according to a report in the Saudi daily Al-Watan [Arabic]. In the report, journalist Fatima Houhou writes that information passed on to Tehran includes video, phone, and electronic data. Houhou goes on to suggest that the information is...

The Iranian government is broadening its efforts to censor and control access to the Internet as the country approaches its June elections. Wired reports that last week the head of Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Committee, Ramezanali Sobhani-Fard, announced to the public that the regime would be cracking down on Virtual Private...

Saudi Arabia is blasting Iran for using negotiations to stall for time while Tehran advances its atomic program, echoing recent statements made by U.S., E.U, and U.N. diplomats, Israeli officials, the head of the IAEA, and top U.S. military officials. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal made the point while hosting his...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the first world leaders to publicly mourn the death of Hugo Chavez, late of Venezuela, in a message of condolence to Vice President Nicolas Maduro. The Iranian president referred to Chavez as a “martyr,” and insisted that the Iranian ally, Hezbollah supporter –...