Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry told the Sofia Globe that three Iranians carrying forged Israeli passports were intercepted trying to enter the country from Turkey, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The three, aged 21, 28, and 32, were detained as they attempted to enter via the Kapitan Andreevo crossing, a major entry point...

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Ordinary Iranians on social media are increasingly expressing their frustration with the nation’s privileged political class, as new sanctions take hold, Reuters reported Wednesday. A deteriorating economy sparked nationwide protests beginning late last year, but Iranians are “increasingly pointing fingers at the rich and powerful, including clerics, diplomats, officials and...

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With renewed sanctions imposed on it by the United States, Iran may be poised to increase the frequency and destructiveness of its cyber-attacks, two experts warned in a paper published Tuesday by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). Annie Fixler, a policy analyst at FDD, and Frank Cilluffo, the director...

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On Monday, the United States completed “its full snapback of sanctions on Iran,” bringing to bear the “heaviest economic pressure ever” against the Islamic Republic, in the hope that will “change the behavior of Ayatollah Khamenei, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin wrote in an op-ed...

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Hate preacher Louis Farrakhan, on a solidarity trip to Iran ahead of the reimposition of United States sanctions on the clerical regime, led chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” The Algemeiner reported Sunday. During his public appearances, Farrakhan, who heads the Nation of Islam and recently compared...

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The Trump administration announced that it will re-impose all sanctions on Iran that had been lifted as the result of the 2015 nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported Friday. In a conference call announcing the administration’s intent to reinstate the harsh sanctions, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that...

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Two recent reports highlighted the problem of using diplomacy alone to disarm rogue states. On October 15, the BBC published an in-depth investigation that showed “for the first time the extent to which chemical weapons have been crucial to his war-winning strategy.” According to the report, the BBC determined that “there is enough...

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Iran’s foreign minister charged that the recently thwarted terror attack targeting an Iranian opposition figure in Denmark was one in a series of “false flag” operations carried out by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency with the aim of undermining the 2015 nuclear deal, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Foreign Minister...

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Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, provided Denmark and Sweden with the information to stop the attempted assassination of the leader of the Danish branch of an Iranian opposition group, an Israeli official confirmed Wednesday. “The Mossad’s efforts have led to thwarting Iranian terrorism in France, Belgium, Austria, Germany and now Sweden and...

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After saying that Denmark would take “further steps” in response to a foiled Iranian terror plot on its territory, Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said that his country would recall its ambassador to Iran and push for new EU-wide sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported Tuesday. Samuelsen made his remarks...

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