The Baha’i World News service – a Haifa-based service that “reports on activities of the worldwide Baha’i community and on events that affect the Baha’i Faith ” – published details yesterday on the murder of Ataollah Rezvani, a “well-known member of the Iranian Baha’i community.” Rezvani was reportedly killed by...

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Iran “appears to be in the final stages of modifying” a site where it is suspected the regime conducted tests relevant to the development of nuclear warheads, according to new photos and analysis published by the U.S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). Recent commercial satellite imagery shows new...

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New revelations are shedding light on the methods Iran is using to create a “halal Internet,” cleansed of material that the regime finds objectionable. University of Michigan computer science professor Alex Halderman has teamed up with two anonymous Iranians to conduct one of the first systematic studies of the scope...

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Remarkable footage emerged this week of the inside of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which after being stormed in 1979 was partially turned by Iran into a museum for anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda. Other parts of the complex were handed over to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Western media outlets...

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A top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared this week that Iran would never suspend its nuclear activities. He did explain, however, that the regime was willing to modify how it talked about not suspending its nuclear activities. Voice of America explains via the Associated Press: A...

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Analysts have begun to unpack the implication of reports – published in Arabic and Israeli news outlets earlier this month – to the effect that Hamas has rebuilt ties with Iran and with Tehran’s Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah. The reports detailed meetings which took place at Iran’s Beirut embassy and...

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An expose published over the weekend by the Washington Post highlights the role that all-expense-paid trips to Iranian indoctrination camps are playing in the Islamic republic’s ongoing efforts to penetrate the Americas. Tehran has sought for decades to bolster its presence in Latin America. Iranian strategists reportedly view the region...

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Jane’s Defense Weekly this week published new satellite imagery showing that Iran has built a new rocket launch site. The purpose of the site, according to experts, is not in doubt: Analysts said the unfinished site 25 miles south east of the city of Shahrud has no storage for the liquid...

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Recently inaugurated Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged this week to “stand by [the Bashar al-Assad regime] in facing all challenges,” adding fuel to a fiery debate raging in the foreign policy community over the degree to which the revolutionary cleric is willing or able to alter Iran’s confrontational posture toward the West....

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The official Twitter feed of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei today lashed out amid renewed peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials, emphasizing instead that Israel must be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Any operational plan 4 Palestinian cause should be based on “All #Palestine for...

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