Thousands of Shiite Afghan refugees have been recruited by Iran to fight in defense of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. Shiite Iran, Assad’s key military and financial patron, denies enlisting Afghan mercenaries to fight alongside Syrian forces in the four-year conflict against opposition...

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The nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will provide Tehran with the means “to produce [enriched] uranium on an industrial scale” after fifteen years, according to an analysis of the deal published yesterday in The New York Times. This would...

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The United Nations stood behind condemnation of the Syrian government issued by special envoy Staffan de Mistura after Sunday airstrikes on a busy marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus, left a reported 96 people dead, the Associated Press reported yesterday. In a statement Monday, de Mistura condemned the government...

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Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and one of its chief nuclear negotiators, said that no nuclear inspectors will be allowed to enter the Islamic Republic unless previously approved by its intelligence agency, the Washington Free Beacon reported yesterday. “Any individual, out of IAEA’s Inspection group, who is not approved...

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The billions of dollars in sanctions relief that will flow to Iran in the wake of the nuclear agreement “will fund Iranian imperialism,” Michael Gerson wrote in a column for The Washington Post. Gerson explained Iran’s long-running strategy of deploying “several thousand well-trained, well-led militia members” against the country’s regional rivals, having them “exploit...

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Among the individuals who will be freed from international sanctions under the terms of the nuclear deal between Iran and the West is Anis Naccache, a former lieutenant of of legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal and attempted assassin of Shahpour Bakhtiar, Iran’s last Shah-era prime minister. Bakhtiar’s nephew, Hooman Bakhtiar, criticized this...

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President Barack Obama’s plan to bring about a peaceful solution to the Syrian Civil War essentially hinders his ability to protect Israel from Iran and its terrorist proxies, Jackson Diehl, the deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post, argued in an op-ed Monday. Both of his goals are valid,...

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United States intelligence agencies have confirmed that Syria’s President, Bashad al-Assad, remains in possession of chemical weapons, The Times of Israel reported today. In 2013, Assad capitulated to international demands that he relinquish Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal after his regime used sarin gas against civilians in Damascus. According to the...

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Iran-backed militias are successfully recruiting Syrians to fight on behalf of beleaguered President  Bashar al-Assad by doubling their pay, the Financial Times reported today. The report described a scene where a recruiter informed potential soldiers that although half of them would die, the survivors could earn $200 a month. “It sounded like a...

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Calling the Syrian civil war, which has claimed over 300,000 lives, the “worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century,” Michael Weiss and Nancy Youssef wrote today in The Daily Beast that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stands to achieve significant gains due to the nuclear agreement reached between the P5+1 powers and Iran....

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