The Obama administration was pressed on Tuesday to respond to statements from Iranian officials – most recently this weekend from the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – doubling down on Iranian conditions for a nuclear deal that would among other things see the Islamic republic massively expand, rather than...

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Citing a report on CNN Arabic, Al Arabiya reported Monday that the son of Imad Mughniyeh is now commanding Hezbollah’s operations on the Syrian border with Israel. Jihad Mughniyeh, whose father Imad was killed in 2008 in a car bomb attack in the Syrian capital of Damascus, is said to be...

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The Washington Times reported yesterday that despite the hope for moderation with the election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran, executions in the Islamic Republic have surged since his inauguration. During the 14 months since Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took office, Iranian authorities have carried out at least 936...

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A Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday revealed that an upcoming London forum will bring together Iranian firms with a range of international counterparts – drawn from law offices, telecom operations, business consultancies, and even art auction houses – to explore how capital might be moved into Iran as the...

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An analysis written by Benjamin Weinthal that was published yesterday in The Jerusalem Post asked whether a regime which hasn’t kept its promises on human rights “can guarantee a nuclear agreement free from weapons development.” The spur for Weinthal’s analysis was a letter released last week about an Iranian prisoner...

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Speculation continues to deepen surrounding last Monday’s mysterious explosion at Iran’s Parchin military base, where it is widely believed – including by the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) – that the Iranians conducted tests relevant to the development of nuclear warheads. Official Iranian outlets had acknowledged early in the week that...

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In a profile of British-Iranian activist Ghoncheh Ghavami yesterday, The New York Times quoted an Iranian women’s rights activist who said,  “One of our friends was told by a security official, ‘We are arresting you to make clear that there won’t be any change in this country.’ ” While the article noted...

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Reuters reported Thursday that negotiations between the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) and Iran – aimed at securing inspector access to sites where the Iranians are suspected of having conducted military-related atomic work – “appear not to have substantively advanced,” with the agency tersely announcing that “Iran did not propose any...

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Satellite imagery released Wednesday by Israeli media outlets revealed that a previously reported Monday explosion has done significant damage to Iran’s military facility at Parchin, where the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog (IAEA) believes Iranian scientists conducted research into the development of nuclear warheads: Satellite images obtained by Israel Defense and...

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The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Iranian back Houthi rebels are preventing the formation of a new government in Yemen. President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi named a top aide, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, to the post, the official news agency Saba reported. But the Houthi rebels said in a...

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