A top Iranian general said that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops are feeding intelligence to Russia in order to guide its airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, Amir Toumaj, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported in the Long War Journal on Tuesday. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi,...

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While Democratic and Republican leaders in Washington have made defeating the Islamic State a top priority, “that’s not nearly as important as confronting the challenge posed by Iran,” former Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed published Thursday. Ya’alon said that while last year’s nuclear deal had certain benefits  — namely delaying Iran’s...

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Sunni Arab powers in the Middle East fear that Iran is establishing a “Shiite Crescent” in order to advance its regional ambitions, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. As the Islamic State continues losing territory to Iran-backed militias, Sunni countries are concerned that they may “face a potentially more dangerous challenge: a land corridor from Tehran to...

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One of the likeliest successors to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a “a contempt for the West” and is committed to “the theocracy’s mission of repression,” Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ray Takeyh wrote in The Washington Post on Monday. Ibrahim Raisi, a former prosecutor general, is being positioned to succeed...

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Iran’s recently-launched national internet program “doubles as a tool for control” of the country’s population, researcher Collin Anderson wrote Friday for Backchannel, Wired magazine’s investigative outlet. Iran’s internet has been under governmental control with “a heavy hand since at least 2004,” Anderson wrote. Since the only gateway to the global...

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Iran is working to obstruct the election of a new Lebanese president, a Lebanese member of parliament said on Sunday, highlighting continued attempts by the Islamic Republic and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah to maintain the political gridlock in Beirut. Jamal al-Jarrah, who belongs to the Sunni-majority Future Movement party, explained that “[former Lebanese Prime...

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Iran released a video on Sunday showing the test-firing of a new ballistic missile that it has started mass producing, Tasnim News Agency reported. The domestically-designed missile, named Zolfaqar, is seen successfully hitting its intended target in the recording, which was released hours after Iran’s defense minister inaugurated a production line for the weapon....

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Iranian women have taken to social media to protest and defy a recently issued fatwa by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which bans females from riding bicycles because the activity ostensibly endangers their “chastity” and “exposes society to corruption,” The Independent reported on Tuesday. Women participating in the My Stealthy Freedom social media...

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The House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill Thursday evening that would prohibit future cash payments to Iran. The Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act passed by a vote of 254 – 163, with a number of Democrats joining Republicans in supporting the bill. President Barack Obama has threatened...

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Iran “must stop meddling in Arab affairs, from Yemen and Bahrain to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon,” former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri wrote on Thursday in The New York Times. Hariri’s father Rafik, also a former prime minister, was assassinated in 2005. An international tribunal at The Hague determined that the assassination was carried out...

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