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,...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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:...

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German President Frank Walter-Steinmeier was criticized for sending Iran a congratulatory telegram on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Republic’s founding, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. In a statement to the Post, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said that the...

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Israel has been countering Iranian efforts to use suitcases to smuggle GPS components into Syria to upgrade Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal, Neri Zilber reported Thursday for The Daily Beast. In 2017, once it appeared that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would survive the civil war that was tearing his country apart, Zilber,...

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The Trump administration has kickstarted a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of countries following the reported hanging of a young gay man in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal wrote in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The initiative is aimed in part at denouncing the Islamic Republic over...

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A group of angry Iranians attacked the Islamic Republic’s so-called “morality police” in a Tehran suburb on February 15 when authorities detained two young women for not wearing the hijab, The Daily Telegraph reported. Officers fired warning shots at the group in an attempt to disperse the crowd. Protesters were...

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