Reports of a mysterious explosion inside Iran’s underground nuclear bunker at Fordow – where the regime has installed more than 2,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium – are increasing in tempo despite Iranian denials. The news comes after several weeks in which American and European officials issued unusually blunt statements condemning Tehran for...

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IAEA officials are still attempting to restart negotiations with Iran. Failed talks this month were the latest in a series of unsuccessful negotiation attempts, including diplomatic efforts held in February, June, August, and December of 2012. A senior Iranian lawmaker has suggested Tehran will only cooperate with officials from the UN’s nuclear watchdog if...

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Iran is now proposing that the next round of talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group, aimed at increasing transparency around the country’s atomic program, be held in Cairo. Arabic media reports indicate that Egypt is uninterested in hosting the talks, and a spokesperson for the European Union’s Catherine Ashton implied...

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The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad is mobilizing civilians and turning them into paramilitary forces, according to a Syrian NGO. Reports from the ground in the war-torn country have proven notoriously unreliable, but one of the paramilitary groups – part of a newly dubbed National Defense Army – is described...

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Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official Khader Habeeb is praising Iran for its support of Palestinian terrorism, declaring that Tehran has “adopted” terror groups since the Iranian revolution. The declarations can be considered reciprocation for statements made last week by Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani in which he expressed support...

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Iran and the P5+1 have yet to agree on a date for the resumption of talks surrounding Iran’s atomic program, and Iranian outlets are now conveying statements by a top official in Tehran declaring that negotiations may be suspended altogether. Deputy Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mansour Haqiqat...

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Iran’s 24th fleet will begin a new three-month tour of duty next week that will take the warship and submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to “block threats to the Islamic republic.” Similar deployments have been used as symbolic moves channeled into domestic propaganda channels, but have also been used to deliver...

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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday called on Palestinians to accept further Iranian assistance in targeting Israelis. Larijani made the comments in the context of a meeting with top Hamas official Emad Al-Alami, who in turn has linked Hamas’s self-described military victories over Israel to Iranian assistance. Hamas has been attempting...

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Washington should enhance “constraints on supply of goods Iran needs for its nuclear and missile programs,” the American non-partisan Project on U.S. Middle East Nonproliferation Strategy said in a new report on the Iranian nuclear program. The group emphasizes that Iran’s atomic program violates international law along multiple dimensions, including putting...

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The director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency has expressed pessimism that Iran will adopt measures to increase transparency around its military facility at Parchin. The agency wants access to the site in order to investigate reports that Iran conducted activity there linked to the development of nuclear explosives. International...

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