The six Arab states that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council have issued a joint communique condemning “continuing Iranian interference” in their internal affairs as well as Tehran’s growing nuclear program. “Politically, (there is) lots of meddling in the affairs of GCC states; an environmental threat to our region from the...

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A top American diplomat and foreign policy veteran has called 2013 a “decisive year” for resolving the standoff between the Iranian regime and countries seeking to reduce opacity around Tehran’s atomic program. Dennis Ross, who has served prominently under every president since Bill Clinton, told an audience at the Jerusalem...

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Iranian Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi declared on Saturday that the presence of NATO anti-missile assets in Turkey was “very dangerous for the future of mankind,” particularly singling out Europe as threatened. A planned visit to Turkey by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was subsequently canceled, and increasingly pitched...

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A top Iranian nuclear negotiator is minimizing prospects for a breakthrough in talks between Tehran and the P5+1 aimed at decreasing opacity around Iran’s atomic program. Mostafa Dolatyar, who heads the Iranian foreign ministry’s think tank, blasted the approach of the P5+1 – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia,...

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Iran seems set to reject IAEA requests to visit Parchin, as representatives of the UN nuclear watchdog meet with Iranian officials in Tehran to try to reduce opacity surrounding the Islamic Republic’s atomic program. The IAEA had asked to visit the site, where intelligence reports indicate Iran has conducted testing...

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Hamas’s Tehran office has issued a statement thanking Iran for its support of the group and dismissing suggestions of a split between the Islamic Republic and terror organization. The statement reiterates previous assertions of close ties from both sides, and comes as an Iranian delegation has arrived to the Gaza...

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Iran is actively exporting its drone technology to Venezuela, according to the country’s Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri. The announcement, made as part of a speech by Mehdinejad-Nouri given at Iran’s Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, comes in the wake of testimony by former U.S. Assistant...

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A high-ranking commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is declaring that Israel is the key “target” of Iran’s missile program, noting that Tehran can ensure that “nothing will be left of Israel.” The statement, designed to reassure Western countries that Iran merely seeks the eradicatian of the Jewish State and...

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Iran is seeking to advance its penetration of South and Central America, deepening concerns by analysts and top U.S. intelligence officials that Iran will use the region as a platform for launching attacks against the United States. In the upcoming days, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs...

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Iranian officials claim to be enhancing their cyber-warfare capabilities, with announcements in recent days of a new center that will enable Tehran to “fight with the enemy in this arena.” The statements were made at a conference organized by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), an entity whose President...

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