The Washington Post has turned to the United Nations for help in freeing its reporter Jason Rezaian, who was arrested by authorities a year ago today. CNN reported: The Washington Post is petitioning the United Nations to help secure the release of Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian, one year after he...

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Iran-backed militias are successfully recruiting Syrians to fight on behalf of beleaguered President  Bashar al-Assad by doubling their pay, the Financial Times reported today. The report described a scene where a recruiter informed potential soldiers that although half of them would die, the survivors could earn $200 a month. “It sounded like a...

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The recent nuclear deal with Iran will strengthen the hold that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hold over the country, Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote in the current issue of The Weekly Standard. Insofar as the sanctions regime strengthened the IRGC’s hold on the Iranian economy,...

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Senators Bob Corker (R – Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D – Md.), the two highest ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, insisted to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in a meeting today that the Obama administration must turn over missing documents related to the nuclear deal agreed to with Iran, known...

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A former top official of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency has said that the recently-signed nuclear deal’s provision allowing Iran more than three weeks notice before accepting international inspectors will help the country cheat in its nuclear obligations. Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and...

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A plurality of Americans who are familiar with the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), disapprove of the agreement, while 73% of Americans have little or no confidence that Iran’s leaders will abide by its terms, according to a poll released today by Pew Research...

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Iran could delay inspections of suspicious nuclear sites for longer than the 24 days specified in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), William Tobey, a former deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote Monday in an analysis for Foreign Policy. Tobey explained that snap-back...

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Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of Iran’s Basij militia, said that the language of the recently concluded nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPOA), shows that the United States holds a “deep grudge” against Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported today. The Basij militia is a...

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Two top Iranian government officials have rejected the possibility of international inspectors visiting military sites as part of a nuclear deal. Iranian defense minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, who has been implicated in planning the 1983 bombing of the United States Marines barracks in Beirut, declared that he would not allow inspectors...

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Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated that the UN Security Council resolution supporting the recent nuclear deal contradicts Iran’s “red lines,” The New York Times reported today. General Jafari’s remarks, reported in an interview with Iran’s Tasnim news agency, appeared to be primarily concerned...

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