Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said that Tehran will continue arming Hezbollah, Hamas, and “any group of the resistance to the U.S. and Israel,” and explained that the Islamic Republic still considered America to be the “Great Satan,” in an interview translated and transcribed by the Middle East Media Research...
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Despite its stated goal of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear threat, the deal will allow it to become a “threshold nuclear state” by the time it expires, Gen. (ret.) James Conway, the former commandant of the of Marine Corps, and Gen. (ret.) Charles Wald, former deputy commander of United States...
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The nuclear deal with Iran will give Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a “fresh economic shot in the arm,” which will strengthen the dictator and add to Europe’s growing refugee crisis, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Saturday in an op-ed for the New...
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The agreement to inspect Iran’s nuclear research site at Parchin is faulty and hurts the credibility of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, its former deputy director general said today. Olli Heinonen, the former number two official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), expressed doubts that the inspections plan is strong enough in an...
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Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran in an op-ed published today in The Washington Post. Cardin is also a co-sponsor of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which mandated legislative oversight of any deal....
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The president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the controversial group promoting closer ties with Iran, admitted in an email to supporters Wednesday that he wants to prevent a Congressional vote on the nuclear deal with Iran from occurring. An alert written by NIAC founder and president Trita Parsi celebrated securing the 34th Democratic Senate...
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Russian troops, weapons, and vehicles have been sighted in battles in Syria supporting the Assad regime, The Telegraph reported Wednesday. The video footage claimed to show troops and a Russian armoured vehicle fighting Syrian rebels alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s troops in Latakia. … In further indications of Russian “mission creep” in Syria,...
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Kuwait charged 24 men with spying for Iran and Hezbollah in order “to carry out aggressive acts” against the state, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Tuesday. The men were charged with “spying for the Islamic republic of Iran and Hezbollah to carry out aggressive acts against the State of Kuwait” by...
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A task force led by two retired four-star generals has concluded that the nuclear deal with Iran will help the Islamic Republic “become more powerful and expand its influence and destabilizing activities.” The assessment (.pdf), led by James Conway, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, and Charles Wald, the former...
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The White House’s drive to steamroller the Iran deal through Congress in the face of opposition from a bipartisan majority has finally borne fruit—Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) today announced her backing for the deal, handing President Barack Obama the 34 senators he needs in the event that he has to...
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