In the 40 years since the 1979 founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran’s unelected management — namely the supreme leader and his mullahcratic appointees — has been consistently anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Semitic.  In contrast, the elected leadership — the president and the speaker of parliament—have been more malleable,...

Iran is likely behind a major assault on the internet’s infrastructure, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is the main international registry of internet addresses, warned on Friday that the infrastructure undergirding the system of internet domains was subject to “an ongoing...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has submitted his resignation, Reuters reported Monday. Writing in Persian on his personal Instagram account, Zarif, who was the public face of Iran during the 2015 nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 — which consisted of the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France,...

The chief of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service recently visited Israel to discuss the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Alex Younger, the MI6 chief, arrived in Israel on Monday and met with Yossi Cohen, head of the Mossad, and...

In an op-ed published in The Algemeiner on Thursday, The Israel Project CEO and President, Josh Block, slammed the European Union for sabotaging “bipartisan US efforts to hold Iran accountable for its illicit nuclear and non-nuclear activities.” Block noted that “in the struggle for fundamental freedom, one would expect the...

Iran has launched a three-day naval exercise in the Persian Gulf, Seth Frantzman reported Friday in The Jerusalem Post. Frantzman termed the exercise “provocative.” Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced the start of the “Velayat 97” exercise Thursday. According to Khanzadi, the exercise will be comprised of four elements:...