An Australian frigate intercepted a Somalia-bound fishing dhow carrying thousands of arms that authorities believe came from Iran, NBC News reported Monday. The HMAS Darwin intercepted the small vessel, which hid the weapons under fishing nets, nearly 200 miles off the coast of Oman. The Darwin is part of an...

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A former top official of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency wrote on Friday that the organization’s most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program is “incomplete” and “lacks relevant details” to explain how it concluded that Iran is following the terms of the nuclear deal signed last year. Former International Atomic Energy Agency...

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The Iranian elections did not result in the victory of moderates or reformists, several analysts have recently argued. Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), explained on Friday that true reformers were wiped out by the Tehran regime in 2009 – they “were silenced, imprisoned,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that victims of Iranian terror could seize $2.8 million in frozen Iranian funds to settle the damages owed to them. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the victims could use money from funds that were frozen after Iran’s Islamic Revolution...

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Western media reports indicating that moderates won last week’s Iranian elections belie the fact that nearly 99 percent of all reformers were disqualified from running. The Wall Street Journal pointed this out in an editorial (Google link) Monday: At stake Friday were seats in the Majlis, or Parliament, and the Assembly of Experts, the body that will...

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