Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran “fails to achieve the objective of a non-nuclear Iran; it only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state.” In prepared remarks to the press, Tillerson said the deal “represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us...

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Iran displayed various missile systems in a military parade in Tehran on Tuesday, many of which were emblazoned with slogans calling for the death of Israel. The weapons included the Russian-developed S-300 anti-aircraft missile and the Iranian-made Sayyad-3 long-range missile. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was present at the parade and...

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Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Wednesday identified Iran as the main source of instability in the Middle East, shortly after speaking with Saudi Arabian officials during his ongoing tour of the region. Earlier in the day, Mattis held meetings with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and Mohammed bin Salman, the...

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson denounced Iran as “a leading state sponsor of terror” on Tuesday, revealing that the Trump administration has ordered a review on whether continuing to lift nuclear-related sanctions on Iran is in the national security interest of the United States. “When the interagency review is completed, the administration looks forward...

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Recent remarks by a Bahraini cleric exiled to Iran underscore the Islamic Republic’s influence in that Gulf Arab state, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Delivering a eulogy at a funeral of a Shiite militant killed in an exchange of fire with Bahraini security forces, Murtada al-Sanadi said, “The choice of resistance is widening and...

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Iran was crucial in helping Syria develop its chemical weapons program, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote Monday. “What the rapid-fire news cycle didn’t say early this month was that Tehran and Damascus jump-started a program to develop a sophisticated Syrian chemicals arsenal as early as 2004,” Benjamin...

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The Iranian government is cracking down on Telegram, an encrypted text messaging app that has gained widespread popularity in the Islamic Republic. Telegram allows its users to remain anonymous, allowing Iranian citizens to share and access information that’s typically censored by Tehran. The regime is now demanding “Telegram channels with...

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The United States Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it is imposing sanctions against the younger brother of a top Iranian commander, holding him liable for human rights abuses he committed as head of Iran’s notorious Evin prison. Sohrab Soleimani, a top official in Iran’s State Prison Organization and brother...

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Iran is continuing to send troops and weapons to Syria using “pseudo-civilian aircraft,” an analyst specializing in Iran and the Persian Gulf warned Thursday. In order to support the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has set up “its own covert airlines and service companies to provide logistical...

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Iran’s support of the Syrian regime in the wake of a gas attack against civilians in northern Syria raises questions about its own chemical weapons program, a research fellow at the Foundation for Foundation of Democracies wrote Wednesday in the New York Daily News. Iran has enabled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “chemical and barrel bombing war...

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