Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported today that an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander boasted that Syrian missile factories, which help prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, are built by Iran. Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said Syria’s missile-production...

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Russia and Iran announced a deal today that will provide Iran with up to eight nuclear reactors. The reactors will be built by Russia’s state nuclear agency, Rosatom. Agence France-Presse reports: The so-called Bushehr Phase II consists of two reactors at the same Persian Gulf coast site as the existing 1,000...

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A five-minute-long video (Persian link) circulated on the Internet among Iranian activists shows the Iranian regime’s masked police forces publicly abusing and beating a group of young Iranians while parading them through the streets, handcuffed in the back of an open vehicle. The incident took place in the streets of...

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For an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal (Google link), Bret Stephens interviewed Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, on Iran’s strategy for evading the consequences of violating its nuclear agreements. After listing many of the technical details that need to be addressed by a future agreement, Stephens writes: As...

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The latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), published Friday by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), blasted Tehran for “not provid[ing] any explanations that enable the Agency to clarify the outstanding practical measures,” stoking concerns that Iranian officials may be counting...

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Citing a report in a Brazilian newspaper O Globo, The Jerusalem Post reported today that Hezbollah has been smuggling arms to criminal gangs in that country. According to the report in the Rio de Janeiro-based paper, Federal investigators in Brazil have been probing possible ties between Lebanon and criminal gangs in Brazil...

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In a confidential document disclosed on Friday, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium has increased significantly over the past two months. According to Reuters: Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium gas has grown by 8 percent to nearly 8.4 tonnes in about two months, U.N. atomic...

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The British newspaper The Sunday Times reported today that according to a former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) official, Iran may have thousands more centrifuges than it has declared to the IAEA. The Times quoted the concerns of Olli Heinonen, who worked for the IAEA for 27 years. During his...

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Amid growing tensions in Jerusalem, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Saturday for the destruction of Israel. In a series of tweets, he attacked Israel and urged the arming of Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank: “This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of #Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to...

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Reuters reported on Saturday that the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program shows that Iran violated one of the commitments it made in last year’s Joint Plan of Action (JPA) with the P5+1 powers. Reuters cited an analysis of the IAEA report prepared by...

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