Protesters across Iran are blaming the regime — and not the United States — for the nation’s worsening economic situation as harsh new U.S. sanctions are set to be imposed this week, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Instead of chants of “Death to America” which are common at regime-led...

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At a time when the rial is being devalued regularly making it difficult for regular Iranians to make ends meet, the emergence of pictures from the lavish 2017 wedding of a diplomat’s son to a fashion model has sparked resentment of Iran’s ruling class, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Thursday....

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In an apparent threat to global shipping, Iran has begun naval exercises in the Straits of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. United States defense officials told the Journal that the exercises, involving more than 100 vessels — though mostly smaller craft...

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Addressing a graduating class of naval officers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if Iran attempts to close a crucial shipping lane, Israel would be part of an international coalition to ensure that the waterway remains open for international shipping, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Netanyahu’s remarks come a...

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The United States has no effective means of deterring Iran’s “tactic” of hostage-taking — a practice it has engaged in since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 — Reuters assessed in a special report Wednesday. In 1979, “Iran took 52 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran,”...

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Russia’s envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, said on Wednesday that Iranian forces in Syria had retreated 85 kilometers from the border with Israel following efforts by the Jewish State to increase pressure on the Kremlin, Reuters reported. However, an Israeli official deemed the pullback insufficient. “The Iranians withdrew and the...

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An Iranian-born writer and activist for women’s rights in her home country wrote that, forced by the regime, “my sister publicly disowned me on prime-time Iranian television,” in an op-ed published Tuesday in The New York Times. Masih Alinejad, a journalist and founder of the My Stealthy Freedom movement, which...

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In just four months the value of Iran’s currency, the rial, has dropped by half — now it takes 102,000 rial to buy a dollar — Agence France-Presse reported Monday. In March, the rial’s value had dropped to the point that it cost 50,000 rial to buy a dollar. The latest reported...

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In early July, Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi was arrested and charged with acting as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder following his alleged involvement in a failed bomb plot targeting a gathering of Iranian opposition groups in Paris. This thwarted terror attack, the latest in a long Iranian...

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When the United States, Canada, and European Union wanted someone to rescue members of the Syrian Civil Defense organization, also known as the White Helmets, from southwestern Syria as the Assad regime and its allies were closing in last week, who did they call? They called Israel. And Israel came...

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