Iran’s test-firing of ballistic missiles on Sunday likely violated United Nations Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said today. Politico reported more: “If the facts are as we believe them to be, it would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions,” Samantha Power said, speaking at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit...

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Using Russian airstrikes as protection, Iran has moved hundreds of troops into Syria, the Associated Press reported today. It is the first time Iran has openly deployed soldiers from its army into Syria’s four-year-old civil war, though it has previously sent armed forces “advisers,” as well as members of its Islamic...

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Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile in violation of an existing United Nations Security Council resolution, Reuters reported Sunday. Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of a United Nations ban, signaling an apparent advance in Iranian attempts to improve the accuracy of its missile...

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The Washington Post‘s correspondent in Tehran, who was arrested by Iranian authorities more than a year ago and was held for nine months without charge, has been convicted in an espionage trial. Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American journalist, had been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for longer than the 444 days of the Iran...

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In the wake of Russian airstrikes in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has come within one mile of the northern border of Aleppo, Reuters reported today. Islamic State is now within 2 km (1 mile) of government-held territory on the northern edge of Aleppo which has...

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A top Iranian general responsible for shoring up the support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was killed in a battle with anti-Assad forces outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamedani died at the hands of “Daesh terrorists” on Thursday while conducting advisory...

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Some U.S. government officials have privately acknowledged that a key provision of the nuclear deal with Iran violates existing federal law, James Rosen of Fox News reported today. At issue is a passage tucked away in ancillary paperwork attached to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, as the...

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A group of Iranian hackers set up a system of LinkedIn profiles to pry sensitive information from people in the defense and telecom sectors, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. This tactic, known as “social engineering,” is one where hackers trick people to get them to cough up personal or sensitive...

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Russia and Iran decided in July to undertake joint military action to prop up Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, even while they sat on opposite sides of the table in nuclear negotiations, Reuters reported Tuesday. The first step of the joint offensive was planned by the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—Qods...

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Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner allegedly received bribes from the Iranian regime as part of her negotiations to absolve the Islamic Republic of responsibility for the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were murdered and more than 100 wounded. The claim...

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