In a speech Monday that addressed Iran’s troubled economy and the 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that he would “prohibit” talks with the United States, The New York Times reported. In an apparent response to President Donald Trump’s tweet, “Iran, and it’s economy, is going very bad,...

In explaining why France remained unconvinced that Iran continues to present a terror threat to Europe, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a French security official said, “We can imagine an ultranationalist faction carrying out an operation to raise tensions.” The Journal report explained that given recent Iranian-directed terror attacks...

A newly released report by the European Union details Hezbollah’s international web of terror sponsoring and reveals how Lebanese nationals worked with organized crime organizations to finance Hezbollah’s terrorist activities, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2018 wrote, “In...

A senior Syrian weapons engineer killed over the weekend when a bomb in his car exploded was killed in a targeted assassination by Israel’s security agency Mossad, The New York Times reported Tuesday, reinforcing accusations from Syria. Aziz Azbar, a leading Syrian chemical weapons and rocket scientist, was killed along...

Protesters across Iran are blaming the regime — and not the United States — for the nation’s worsening economic situation as harsh new U.S. sanctions are set to be imposed this week, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Instead of chants of “Death to America” which are common at regime-led...

At a time when the rial is being devalued regularly making it difficult for regular Iranians to make ends meet, the emergence of pictures from the lavish 2017 wedding of a diplomat’s son to a fashion model has sparked resentment of Iran’s ruling class, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Thursday....