Iranian parliamentarians voted on Monday to increase the country’s military spending to five percent of the budget and advance its development of long-range ballistic missiles. The measure also prioritizes “developing and increasing the power to produce missiles,” improving Iran’s air defense power, and “developing and strengthening electronic warfare and cyber defense capabilities,” the Tasnim News...

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In one of his final acts in office on December 30, outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submitted a confidential report to the UN Security Council alleging that Iran may have violated an international arms embargo by smuggling weapons to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Reuters reported Sunday. The report also contains...

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A United States Navy destroyer fired on four smaller Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf’s strategic Straits of Hormuz on Sunday after the smaller crafts approached at an unsafe speed and engaged in behavior that a Pentagon spokesman called “harassing.” The Iranian ships, at least one of which had a...

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Global powers, including the United States, have reached an agreement to provide Iran with nearly 130 tons of uranium—which experts believe would be enough to make 10 nuclear bombs. Two diplomats involved with the deal told the Associated Press that the so-called P5+1 powers agreed to the transfer of Russian...

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Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a cleric who was instrumental in founding the Islamic Republic, served as president of Iran from 1989 to 1997, and was viewed as a mentor to current President Hassan Rouhani, died on Sunday at the age of 82. Rafsanjani helped bring about the 1979 Islamic Revolution,...

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Anti-Israel UN Resolutions? Not in Our House (of Representatives) Battle lines have been drawn between the Obama administration and a large bipartisan majority of Congress after the White House refused to veto United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli activities in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank. The House of Representatives...

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The newly appointed vice president of Venezuela is suspected by American intelligence of drug smuggling as well as close ties to Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, Business Insider reported Thursday. The appointment of Tareck El Aissami, formerly the governor of Aragua state, means that if he could become the country’s president if the increasingly-embattled...

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A glimmer of hope in the fight against Iranian-backed terrorism shone forth from Argentina during the final days of 2016. A federal appeals court ruled that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will face a new investigation over allegations that she and her close colleagues made a secret pact with...

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Iranian political prisoners are increasingly engaging in hunger strikes as a “last resort” to bring attention to their plight, researchers from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) reported in a policy brief on Wednesday. One prisoner, Arash Sadeghi, was sentenced to 19 years in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for “assembly and collusion against national...

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After nearly two years without progress, the investigation into whether former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner conspired with Iran to cover up the Islamic Republic’s role in Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack was at last reopened on Thursday. This has the potential to finally hold Kirchner accountable for the malign...

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