Kataib al-Imam Ali, an Iraqi Shiite militia with strong ties to Iran, is headed by a terrorist with a long record of attacking American interests according to terrorism experts Matthew Levitt and Phillip Smyth in a paper published by the Washington Institute of Near East Policy on Monday. Levitt and Smyth...

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A news site belonging to Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) revealed a plan (Arabic link) by which Iran intends to gain control over Yemen. The plan lists three different tactics that the rebel Houthi Shiites in Yemen “have to take” in order to conquer the whole country. According to the Amarion website (Persian...

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In the lead article of the January 2015 issue of Commentary, Omri Ceren writes that despite assurances from the Obama administration that the nuclear negotiations with Iran would halt Iran’s progress towards a nuclear bomb, the Iranians have instead been “protected from new pressure and allowed to pursue their work toward obtaining...

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Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sharply attacked (Arabic link) official Iranian media outlets, accusing them of spreading lies and perpetuating anarchy throughout the Islamic Republic. Rafsanjani is now the chairman of the Iranian Expediency Discernment Council, an assembly which has an important advisory role to the Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali...

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David Daoud critiques the Obama administration’s recent diplomacy with Iran in Replacement Theory: The Administration’s Crazy New Middle East Illusion, which was published in the December 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine. Daoud outlines possible rationales and consequences of the administration’s rapprochement with Iran. Many interpret America’s softening stance toward Iran...

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What will be the role of Iran in the Middle East in 2015? Commentators in the Arab world are divided over whether Iran’s involvement in events in the Middle East will be reduced or whether it will be increased in light of recent developments. Commentators agree that in 2014 Iran...

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Iran blasted the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to sanction nine “individuals and entities” yesterday for “their support of Iranian government sanctions evasion efforts and human rights-related abusers,” saying that doing so violated “the good will principles” engendered by the ongoing nuclear negotiations and Joint Plan of Actions (JPOA), Reuters reported...

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President Obama held out hope that Iran has “a chance to get right with the world,” by coming to a nuclear agreement with the West in an interview with NPR, Reuters reported yesterday. “They’ve got a chance to get right with the world,” Obama said in the interview, which was...

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Iranian state media boasted on Tuesday that Tehran has successfully inked an oil and gas deal with a top Italian energy company, bragging that the deal came despite the fact that Iran has yet to reach a final agreement with the P5+1 global powers regarding the country’s atomic program. The story...

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Iran holds the “largest military exercise in its history,” or at least that was what Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadan TV channel reported on December 25. The ongoing week-long According to Al Mayadan, a Hezbollah-affiliated television station, Iran held the “largest military exercise in its history,” Ynet reported Thursday. The exercise, which has been...

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