Even as he was blasting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for corruption on Monday, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran increased the organization’s budget by 50%. Bloomberg News reports that Rouhani enacted this increase even as oil prices, a primary source of Iran’s revenues, are dropping: Rouhani proposed increasing the Islamic Revolutionary...

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An editorial yesterday in The Washington Post called on the government of Iran to release its reporter, Jason Rezaian, a dual American-Iranian citizen who has been held for months by authorities. The case has taken on new urgency as Rezaian was charged last week with as-yet undisclosed crimes, despite statements...

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Iranian officials on Tuesday denied reports that the Islamic Republic had been caught breaching sanctions to acquire materials for use at its Arak facility, a day after Foreign Policy released details of a confidential United Nations report that found Tehran to be illicitly obtaining the equipment. Foreign Policy cited sources...

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Hamas, the terrorist organization which  rules the Gaza Strip, is again courting Tehran and preparing to announce its support of the Iranian leadership and of the Syrian regime. Diplomatic sources told the Al-Arab newspaper (Arabic link) that a Hamas delegation, which is currently visiting Tehran, wants to regain the trust...

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The election of a new Prime Minister in March will not change Israel’s stance on major foreign policy issues, according to an analysis written for The New York Times by Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, yesterday. The top priority is —...

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Imad al-Alami, a senior Hamas official with close ties to Iran, is currently operating out of Turkey according to a report published yesterday in Foreign Policy by Jonathan Schanzer and Grant Rumley, respectively the vice president for research and a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Schanzer...

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A report published by Foreign Policy on Monday indicating that Tehran was caught breaching sanctions in order to advance its plutonium work is likely to deepen concerns in Washington at a time when the administration’s handling of the negotiations has been called into question by lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The...

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The premise of the Obama administration’s approach to negotiations with Iran is flawed, according to an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post. The op-ed was written by Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense during the George W. Bush administration; Dennis Ross, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama; and Ray...

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President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to the Pentagon’s top post, replacing Chuck Hagel, who stepped down from the position last month. Carter, who served as assistant secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, is perceived to be particularly strong on nuclear non-proliferation...

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A day after allegations of Israeli strikes in Syria, speculation concerning the circumstances of the attacks point to an Israeli interception of a missile stockpile en route to Hezbollah terrorists. Syrian television claimed that the Israeli military hit targets near Damascus on December 8. The regime of Bashar al-Assad rushed...

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