Recent remarks by a Bahraini cleric exiled to Iran underscore the Islamic Republic’s influence in that Gulf Arab state, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Delivering a eulogy at a funeral of a Shiite militant killed in an exchange of fire with Bahraini security forces, Murtada al-Sanadi said, “The choice of resistance is widening and...

Iran was crucial in helping Syria develop its chemical weapons program, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote Monday. “What the rapid-fire news cycle didn’t say early this month was that Tehran and Damascus jump-started a program to develop a sophisticated Syrian chemicals arsenal as early as 2004,” Benjamin...

The Iranian government is cracking down on Telegram, an encrypted text messaging app that has gained widespread popularity in the Islamic Republic. Telegram allows its users to remain anonymous, allowing Iranian citizens to share and access information that’s typically censored by Tehran. The regime is now demanding “Telegram channels with...

The United States Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it is imposing sanctions against the younger brother of a top Iranian commander, holding him liable for human rights abuses he committed as head of Iran’s notorious Evin prison. Sohrab Soleimani, a top official in Iran’s State Prison Organization and brother...

Iran is continuing to send troops and weapons to Syria using “pseudo-civilian aircraft,” an analyst specializing in Iran and the Persian Gulf warned Thursday. In order to support the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has set up “its own covert airlines and service companies to provide logistical...

Iran’s support of the Syrian regime in the wake of a gas attack against civilians in northern Syria raises questions about its own chemical weapons program, a research fellow at the Foundation for Foundation of Democracies wrote Wednesday in the New York Daily News. Iran has enabled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “chemical and barrel bombing war...