After President Donald Trump’s speech last week when he announced he would not certify that Iran was in compliance with the nuclear deal and that he would impose tougher sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Tehran’s political and military leadership rallied behind the IRGC. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on...

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Iraqi security forces and the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi, an umbrella group of Shiite militia, on Sunday night launched an attack on Kirkuk from two front lines, Kurdish news outlet Rudaw reported Monday. The Iraqi army and Shiite militia fired on Peshmerga troops, using advanced weapons and vehicles supplied to them...

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In possible violation of the 2015 nuclear deal, German intelligence charged that Iran made 32 attempts last year to obtain technology that could be used for proliferation programs, including chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. According to one intelligence report Iran made “32 procurement attempts … that definitely or with high likelihood...

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Implementing a law that designates Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group would violate the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, an IRGC general said Sunday. Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the top commander of the IRGC issued a veiled threat saying that enforcing the law that passed...

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A judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $63.5 million in damages to Amir Hekmati, a former United States Marine, who was jailed and tortured in the country for more than four years. According to Hekmati, he was held in extreme solitary confinement, where he was beaten, threatened, and deprived...

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President Donald Trump’s national security team has unanimously recommended a plan for the president to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran and ramp up pressure against the Islamic Republic to counter its conventional threats. “Trump’s team plans to work with Congress and European allies to apply new pressure on the Iranian regime,...

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A nineteen-year-old female Iranian grandmaster announced that she was joining the Unites States chess federation after having been expelled from the Iranian federation earlier this year for failing to cover her hair during a tournament, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Dorsa Derakhshani’s registration, according to the FIDE, the World Chess Federation database, has been...

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The head of Israel’s external intelligence agency, Mossad, has made a rare public appearance and used the opportunity to warn that Iran constitutes one of the main threats facing Israel. Yossi Cohen, who has led the agency since January 2016, confirmed that Iran is operating closer to Israel’s border than...

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) admission that it had not verified Section T of the nuclear deal with Iran shows that “the deal is not fully implemented,” the president of a nonproliferation think tank told Fox News on Sunday. “Amano basically said that the IAEA is not implementing the verification of...

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Iran has recruited Afghan children to fight in Syria, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch, The New York Times reported Sunday. The report confirmed that at least eight soldiers—some as young as 14—have died fighting in Syria in support of the regime of Bashar al-Assad by Iran. The soldiers were...

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