Iran has struggled to establish a coherent position on the Egyptian army’s ouster of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. On one hand, Egypt under Morsi – along with the rest of the region’s Sunni powers – had aligned opposite Shiite Iran in the Syrian conflict. There are rumors that Morsi...

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In 2009 Iran demonstrated that it had developed working ballistic missiles, prompting the U.S. State Department to express “grave concern.” A new U.S. Department of Defense report released this week provides an upgraded evaluation regarding how soon Iran’s ballistic missiles may be capable of striking American soil. The answer will...

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Iran issued a effusive denial today to allegations issued by a dissident group accusing the Islamic Republic of building another secret nuclear facility, this time in the mountains near Tehran. The news, unvieled by the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), was according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi “in no way true and...

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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was created as a successor to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR). The latter had become a vehicle where rogue regimes huddled together for mutual protection – they voted to thwart criticism of themselves and allies – and from which they...

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Iran has terminated what seemed to be a lull in the regime’s pace of executing prisoners and dissidents. Observers and human rights groups had noted pauses revolving around the celebrations of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, and around the recent presidential campaign season. Since the June 14 election, however, executions...

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An expose published earlier this week by Jane’s Defense Weekly and unpacked in an article published yesterday by the Telegraph discloses that Saudi Arabia is maintaining a ballistic missile base “deep in the Saudi desert” with surface-to-surface missiles oriented toward, and capable of striking, Tel Aviv and Tehran. Analysts who examined the...

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Argentinian officials that seem aimed at facilitating Iranian infiltration of South America and hampering efforts to expose the terrorist activities of Tehran and its proxies throughout the continent. On the hampering side, the administration of Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been blocking requests for Argentinean prosecutor general Alberto Nisman to...

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Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor assigned to investigate the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community in Buenos Aries that killed 87 and injured hundreds, has compiled an exhaustive report on his findings. He has issued an indictment outlining evidence and charges spanning 500 pages. He has laid out how Iran...

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey was interviewed by CNN over the weekend and asked to evaluate the trajectory of the conflict in Syria. Describing how the conflict has been polarized along sectarian lines by battling Shiite and Sunni extremists, Dempsey projected that warfighting may last a full decade: The United...

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Iran is deepening its outreach to Bolivia, one of several countries in the Western hemisphere that Iran seems set on establishing as footholds. An Iranian news agency this week celebrated recent efforts: In a Monday meeting with his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales on the sidelines of the summit of Gas...

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