An American-Iranian has become the fourth Western citizen with dual Iranian citizenship to have been arrested in Iran in the past five months, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Reza “Robin” Shahini traveled to Iran in May to visit his sick mother. Before he left, he deleted any references on social media that he thought would...

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A leading Iranian general who previously called Israel’s destruction “nonnegotiable” recently visited a Syrian town that lies along the country’s border with Israel, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the commander of Iran’s volunteer Basij militia, toured the abandoned city of Quneitra, located...

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The Iranian government has destroyed over 100,000 satellite dishes because cable channels “deviate the society’s morality and culture,” an Iranian general said Sunday. General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the head of Iran’s Basij militia who presided over the destruction of the dishes, claimed that “what these televisions really achieve is increased divorce, addiction and insecurity...

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Just a week after Iran’s foreign minister boasted of a previously secret document detailing Iran’s plan to restore its full uranium enrichment capacity on year 10 of the nuclear deal, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that his country would officially protest the leak to the International Atomic...

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Israeli officials believe that a future war with Hezbollah, with its advanced Iranian-supplied rocket arsenal, could lead to “thousands of civilian deaths,” a white paper published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies revealed. The paper, authored by Jonathan Schanzer, Tony Badran, and David Daoud, explores the history of Hezbollah’s...

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Authorities in Bahrain have announced that they have broken up an Iran-backed terror cell, Reuters reported on Friday. Bahrain is an important American ally in the Persian Gulf and hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. It is ruled by the Sunni al-Khalifa royal family, but has a majority Shiite population. According to authorities, five men,...

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The speaker of Iran’s parliament said that his nation must confront the United States and prepare “a plan for the launch of a nuclear plant for enrichment,” Iranian media reported on Wednesday. Speaker Ali Larijani said that his parliament “is warning the US administration and its House of Representatives and...

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In the wake of the high-profile arrests of several dual-nationals in Iran, the United Kingdom updated its travel advisory for citizens visiting the Islamic Republic, warning that they can be “arbitrarily detained.” British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) initially relaxed elements of its travel warning after last year’s nuclear deal, but a “stalemate over...

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The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned three senior members of al-Qaeda on Wednesday, two of whom are based in Iran. The Treasury accused the individuals of moving “money and operatives from South Asia and across the Middle East.” One of the men, Yisra Muhammad Ibrahim Bayumi, has operated out of Iran since...

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The revelation earlier this week of a secret document of the Iran nuclear deal shows that the P5+1 group of global powers have legitimized Iran’s uranium enrichment program, a leading nuclear proliferation expert said Tueseday. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National...

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