Robert Gates, the first secretary of defense under President Barack Obama, said that the idea that Iran will moderate its aggressive behavior in the Middle East as a result of the nuclear deal “is mistaken,” Armin Rosen of Business Insider reported on Wednesday. “My view is that the belief that Iran over...

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Almost all so-called reformist candidates who registered to run in Iran’s parliamentary elections have been disqualified by the regime’s unelected Guardian Council, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Tuesday. An official from an Iranian council of reformists said that only 30 of 3,000 contenders from the reformist camp, which...

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The United States military said that the 10 American sailors who were seized along with their two boats by Iran last week were held at gunpoint, Reuters reported on Monday. According to a statement released by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which is the fullest account of the incident...

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The wife and mother of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian were seized by Iranian authorities and held incommunicado for hours before his release, nearly causing U.S. officials to cancel the deal to free Rezaian and four other American hostages held by the Islamic Republic, The New York Times reported Monday. Rezaian...

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The removal of sanctions on Iran, “part of which will lead to a great deal more weaponry, conflict, bloodshed, and death throughout this area,” marks a “dark day” for the Middle East, Avi Issacharoff, the Middle East analyst for The Times of Israel, wrote in an op-ed Sunday. After noting...

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One year after the body of Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found in suspicious circumstances in his Buenos Aires apartment, the judge in charge of investigating his death has summoned two members of Nisman’s security detail for questioning. Judge Fabiana Palmaghini is examining whether Federal Police may be implicated...

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The editors of The Washington Post celebrated Iran’s release of their reporter Jason Rezaian along with three other Americans in exchange for Iranian prisoners, but nonetheless warned in an editorial published Sunday that absent stronger action from the administration, “Iran’s attacks on Americans and vital U.S. interests will surely continue.” The editorial noted that the four...

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Four high-profile Americans who were being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison have been freed, U.S. officials announced on Saturday, although two other U.S. nationals will remain incarcerated in Iran. The Obama administration, meanwhile, has agreed to release seven Iranians currently in American custody and to drop its pursuit of...

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The seizure of two American naval vessels and their crews earlier this week is the latest “hostile act” carried out by Iran against the United States, Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote in The Weekly Standard on Friday. Since the announcement of the nuclear deal, Iran...

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Iran’s seizure of two American naval vessels and their crews on Tuesday likely violated the principle of “innocent passage” in international maritime law, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. Officials are looking into whether one of the sailors may have “fat-fingered” a navigation unit, entering erroneous coordinates...

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