On Sunday, Benjamin Weinthal documented the expansion of business ties between Iran, Germany and the Czech Republic, which have been undermining the leverage that sanctions initially provided in the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with the Islamic republic. Weinthal reports that the Czech Republic is scheduled to “send 20 companies to Tehran on...

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In an interview with NPR on Saturday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that Iran is a bigger threat to the United States than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). There have come into being a kind of a Shia-belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And...

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The U.N. nuclear watchdog (IAEA) on Friday released its quarterly report (.pdf) on Iran’s obligations to enhance transparency around the country’s nuclear program, concluding – per the description published by Reuters – that Tehran had straightforwardly “failed to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb research by an agreed deadline.” The outlet also tersely...

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On Thursday, as part of the deal to extend the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran past their original July deadline, Japan unfroze $1 billion in Iranian oil money and transferred it to the Central Bank of Iran. According to Iran’s official IRNA news agency: The first and second installments of...

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The Associated Press reported Wednesday that an investigation by the UN’s nuclear watchdog into Iran’s atomic program had stalled, with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expected to issue a report noting as much and emphasizing that Iranian officials had failed to provide the information that the agency required to...

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Nicholas Saidel, the associate director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR) argues today at the Israeli website Mida that Israel can weaken Iran by allying itself with various ethnic minorities currently suffering persecution in Iran. Observing that “Hamas’ power, to a large extent, relies...

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Iran’s atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi revealed this week that Iran had tested a new generation of advanced centrifuges that analysts believe would dramatically improve the Islamic republic’s ability to go nuclear at will, a development that Reuters suggested might “annoy Western states” committed to rolling back Tehran’s atomic...

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On Monday, Tehran unveiled its Talash-3 surface-to-air missile, which Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili says will be able to “shoot down any hostile target,” even at high altitudes. Iran claims it recently test-fired the Talash-3 with success. The Talash systems can be fired to low, medium,...

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Emily Landau, a senior research fellow at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, warns in a paper published Wednesday that the P5+1, the six countries negotiation with Iran, risk “a bad nuclear deal” by failing to deal with two crucial issues. While most of the public discussion about the negotiations has focused...

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The Iran-backed terror organization Hamas is already broadcasting strong signals that it has no interest in peace and is gearing up for its next war against Israel. The Izzadin Al-Qassam Brigades tweeted (Arabic link): We won, and swore by Allah that we will continue to dig (tunnels), and create more (rockets),...

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