The United States’ decision to purchase 32 tons of Iran’s excess “heavy water,” nuclear runoff which can be used to produce weaponizable material, sets a bad precedent by allowing the Islamic Republic to exceed the restrictions mandated by last year’s nuclear deal, which will legitimize its nuclear program and hurt allies, analysts from the...
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An ultraconservative, anti-Western cleric was elected to head Iran’s powerful Assembly of Experts on Tuesday, signaling hardening positions in the Islamic Republic. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati won 51 out of the 88 votes to become the new speaker for the influential body, which is responsible for electing the country’s supreme leader. Before the vote,...
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Top Iranian military and political officials have reiterated their enmity towards both the United States and Israel recently, specifically singling out the Jewish State for threats of destruction. “If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist regime in...
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A foundation recently identified by the White House as a key player in its effort to sell last year’s nuclear deal with Iran gave a number of news organizations, including National Public Radio, funds to report on the accord and related matters, the Associated Press reported Friday. The report comes...
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Iran’s continued arming of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah means a large-scale conflict with Israel remains “a genuine possibility,” former State Department official Aaron David Miller wrote in an analysis for CNN on Thursday. Miller, now a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, prefaced...
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A meeting between the daughter of a prominent ayatollah and a leader of the Bahai faith in Iran this week has provoked outrage among the country’s elite and underscored the religious intolerance of its government, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi...
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Iran’s failure to bring its money-laundering and terror finance laws into compliance with international standards has discouraged foreign banks from doing business with the country, according to a senior International Monetary Fund official. David Lipton, a deputy of the IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde, told Bloomberg News while in Tehran...
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Iran is propping up the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in order to ensure that Hezbollah, which both countries support, has the continued capability to wage war against Israel, expert witnesses told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing Tuesday. “The gains made by the Assad regime (with Russian and Iranian help)...
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UNESCO’s director general condemned Iran’s recently opened Holocaust cartoon contest, saying that the event encourages hatred, violence, and racism. The contest, which began Saturday and will last until the end of the month, offers a top prize of $12,000. “Such an initiative, which aims at a mockery of the genocide of the Jewish people,...
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Iranian police have arrested eight women who posted pictures on Instagram without a hair covering as part of an organized crackdown, the Associated Press reported Monday. Elham Arab, a model known for posing in wedding gowns who was one of the arrested women, was shown on state television speaking to...
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