IAEA officials are still attempting to restart negotiations with Iran. Failed talks this month were the latest in a series of unsuccessful negotiation attempts, including diplomatic efforts held in February, June, August, and December of 2012. A senior Iranian lawmaker has suggested Tehran will only cooperate with officials from the UN’s nuclear watchdog if...

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Iran is now proposing that the next round of talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group, aimed at increasing transparency around the country’s atomic program, be held in Cairo. Arabic media reports indicate that Egypt is uninterested in hosting the talks, and a spokesperson for the European Union’s Catherine Ashton implied...

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The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad is mobilizing civilians and turning them into paramilitary forces, according to a Syrian NGO. Reports from the ground in the war-torn country have proven notoriously unreliable, but one of the paramilitary groups – part of a newly dubbed National Defense Army – is described...

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Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official Khader Habeeb is praising Iran for its support of Palestinian terrorism, declaring that Tehran has “adopted” terror groups since the Iranian revolution. The declarations can be considered reciprocation for statements made last week by Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani in which he expressed support...

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Iran and the P5+1 have yet to agree on a date for the resumption of talks surrounding Iran’s atomic program, and Iranian outlets are now conveying statements by a top official in Tehran declaring that negotiations may be suspended altogether. Deputy Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mansour Haqiqat...

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Bulgarian officials have evidence linking Hezbollah to the terrorist attack last year in Burgas that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian, according to a Lebanese media outlet citing European sources. Bulgarian media also carried the leak, which echoes reports that emerged last week in Israeli media and which were...

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Iran is attempting to expand its influence into impoverished African nations by funneling ammunition and supplies to state actors and terror-linked rebel groups throughout the continent, fueling ethnic conflict and government repression. A recently published expose in The New York Times reporting on a global Iranian arms network stretching from Afghanistan to...

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Negotiations between UN nuclear inspectors and Iran — aimed at securing inspector access to Iran’s Parchin military facility, where it is widely suspected that Iranian scientists conducted work related to nuclear detonations — have ended without progress. The result is consistent with multiple statements by Iranian officials over the last...

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Bulgarian officials are denying reports published in Israeli media that Bulgarian investigators will declare Hezbollah was behind the July 2012 bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian. The Iran-backed terror group was reported at the time to be plotting several terror attacks against Israeli tourists throughout the region,...

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Iran’s 24th fleet will begin a new three-month tour of duty next week that will take the warship and submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to “block threats to the Islamic republic.” Similar deployments have been used as symbolic moves channeled into domestic propaganda channels, but have also been used to deliver...

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