Secretary of State John Kerry refused to answer Thursday when asked whether the U.S. would veto Russia’s proposed sale of Sukhoi-30 fighter jets to Iran. Iran announced that it intended to purchase fighter jets from Russia on February 10. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed and laid out the nuclear...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that Iran is establishing a global terror network that includes sleeper cells capable of carrying out attacks in Europe and the United States, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. “The Iranian regime through the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps is building a complex terror infrastructure including...

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Iran will pay $7,000 to the families of Palestinian terrorists who were killed while carrying out attacks, and $30,000 to families of terrorists whose houses were demolished by Israel, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon announced on Wednesday. “The decision firstly includes giving an amount worth $7,000 to every family of...

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A gay Iranian poet who was granted a visa to visit Israel in December has now applied for asylum in the Jewish state, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Payam Feili, who escaped persecution in his native Iran and has been living in Turkey since 2014, traveled to Israel in...

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Iran’s increasing efforts to ship explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) to Shiite militants in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia pose a strategic threat to those American allies in the Gulf, Michael Knights argued in a paper published on Wednesday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he is a fellow. Iran’s Islamic...

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The United States must take steps to neutralize the threat of Iran’s cruise missile program, researchers at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs wrote in The Wall Street Journal Monday. Jonathan Ruhe and Blake Fleisher noted that while UN Security Council resolutions and the nuclear deal with Iran don’t...

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Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October by the intelligence arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been denied access to his lawyer, Reuters reported on Sunday. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, Namazi’s lawyer, told Reuters that he has not received permission from the head of Iran’s...

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Members of an Iranian heavy metal band have reportedly been arrested on charges of blasphemy for playing “satanic” music and face possible execution. Trev McKendry of the online music station Metal Nation Radio received a message earlier this month from an a fan of the Iranian band Confess. The email claimed that lead singer Nikan “Siyanor” Khosravi...

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40 Iranian state-run media outlets announced in a coordinated push on Sunday that they were renewing the death sentence fatwa on British author Salman Rushdie, raising the bounty for killing him by $600,000. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of Iran, placed a fatwa and a $3 million bounty on Rushdie after his 1989...

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Rep. Ted Deutch (D – Fla.), the ranking Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Mideast and North Africa Subcommittee, is seeking to ensure that the administration keeps its pledge to hold Iran responsible for continued terrorism. Deutch, along with Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (D – Mass.), introduced the Zero...

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