Less than a week after the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that Iran covertly operated an illicit nuclear weapons program as late as 2009, a senior Iranian official warned that reopening the investigation into the regime’s past nuclear activities would be equivalent to “welshing” on the nuclear deal, Iran’s Mehr...

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As the clock struck midnight in Buenos Aires last night, street celebrations broke out in various parts of the city. Residents banged pots and pans, waved the Argentine flag, set off fireworks, and sang the national anthem. Similar scenes were recorded in many other cities throughout the country. The reason...

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Representatives Joe Kennedy (D – Mass.) and Ted Deutch (D – Fla.) urged President Barack Obama to enforce sanctions against Iran for its recent test launches of ballistic missiles, Politico reported on Wednesday. “Iran violated UNSC Resolution 1929, which remains in effect until the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] is implemented,...

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The recent sentencing of an Iranian woman to lashings, 25-years of imprisonment, and death by stoning underscores the Islamic Republic’s “continued war against women,” according to a human rights activists quoted by Benjamin Weinthal in a report published Thursday in The Jerusalem Post. The punishment, handed down to a 25-year-old who was convicted of...

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The recent wave of Iranian cyber-attacks against officials in the Obama administration is part of the Islamic Republic’s broader asymmetric warfare campaign against the U.S., Benjamin Runkle, a former Defense Department official, wrote in a column published by the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday. Runkle disputed a commonly stated belief...

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Senators Kelly Ayotte (R – N.H.) and Mark Kirk (R – Ill.) expressed their concern on Tuesday regarding the White House’s lack of response to the two reported ballistic missile tests Iran carried out since the nuclear deal was announced. In a letter sent to President Barack Obama, the senators wrote...

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s recently released report on Iran’s nuclear activities shows that the regime developed a covert nuclear weapons program that it advanced alongside its publicly declared one, Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director general of the IAEA, wrote in an analysis published Tuesday. Calling this finding “disconcerting,”...

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Bipartisan resolutions supporting state-imposed sanctions against Iran in the wake of the nuclear deal have been introduced in both chambers of Congress, The Examiner reported on Monday. Last week, Sens. Mark Kirk (R – Ill.), Joe Manchin (D – W. Va.), and Marco Rubio (R – Fla.) submitted a resolution...

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Despite the recent release of an International Atomic Energy Agency report determining that Iran pursued nuclear weapons technology until 2009, the U.S. is urging the IAEA to close its investigation into the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and begin implementing the nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The AP...

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Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile last month, once again violating United Nations Security Council resolutions that limit its development of missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads, Fox News reported on Monday. Western intelligence says the test was held Nov. 21 near Chabahar, a port city in southeast Iran’s Balochistan...

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