The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) praised Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for implied threats the president made against international oil supplies, CNN reported on Wednesday. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC-QF, who runs Iran’s foreign military operations, said, addressing Rouhani, “Your valuable statement that said there will be...

An Iranian general on Monday accused Israel of manipulating the weather to prevent rain over the Islamic Republic, alleging his country was the victim of cloud “theft,” Newsweek reported. “The changing climate in Iran is suspect,” Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, said during an...

India’s oil ministry has told its refiners to prepare for a “drastic reduction or zero imports” of Iranian oil, Reuters reported Thursday. The decision for India to reduce, or even eliminate its oil imports from Iran, is due to American pressure. Though India has said that it would only abide...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again reached out to the Iranian people using social media. In a World Cup-themed video, Netanyahu compared the courage displayed by the Iranian World Cup team in defending against Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, to the courage of those Iranians protesting the regime. Netanyahu...

Tehran’s Grand Bazaar was shut by protesters shouting slogans against the ruling class, including “death to Palestine,” The Times of Israel reported Monday. The protests were sparked by the continued collapse of Iran’s currency, the rial, which now trades at 90,000 for one dollar. According to the Times, “the demonstrations...

In an exclusive press briefing hosted by The Israel Project in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said “Israel will not tolerate an Iranian presence in Syria. Period.” If diplomatic negotiations fail to resolve the crisis, Lapid insisted, Israel “will take any measures necessary.” Lapid – one...