Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, Tehran’s top prosecutor, announced that the Iranian regime had sentenced a British national to a six-year term in prison for espionage, The Guardian reported Sunday. Jafari-Dolatabadi told the Mizan news agency, which is affiliated with the judiciary, that the dual British-Iranian citizen was sentenced as an “agent of...

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Last month Iran’s Justice Minister Alireza Avaei was afforded a platform at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), and Avaei is under an EU travel ban for human rights violations. In the 1980s, Avaei, like his predecessor, Mostafa...

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on Thursday which formalizes the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militia, also known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), as a force under the command of the country’s security forces. Rudaw, a Kurdish news site, reported that the directive will grant to Hashd al-Shaabi many...

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The general who formerly headed Syria’s chemical weapons program before defecting in 2013 said that Iran’s proxy Hezbollah has a store of chemical weapons and that Iran itself is testing missiles with chemical warheads, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. General Sha’arq Zuhair al-Saqit, who defected from Syria when ordered to...

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The 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran has to be renegotiated because the accord allows Tehran to develop missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons and evade timely inspections, and eventually “to resume its race toward a nuclear bomb,” two former prime ministers of American-allied countries wrote Monday in an...

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While acknowledging that any meeting between an Israeli prime minister and an American president is a “momentous event,” Monday’s scheduled meeting between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington occurs at a time when the United States and Israel “have never had such a deep confluence of...

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The two words “never again” have a powerful meaning. They speak to a commitment to prevent another Holocaust. Whether it is meant specifically to prevent another wholesale slaughter of Jews, or generally any ethnic group, the two words speak to a commitment. But however powerful that commitment is, history has...

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A federal district judge ordered airplane manufacturer, Boeing, to make terms of its $16 billion contract with Iran available to the family of an Israeli terror victim, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The family of Noam Leibovitch, a 7-year-old girl who was killed when Iran-backed terrorists from Palestinian Islamic...

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Iran announced that it would be hosting what it calls an international “Hourglass Festival” in April to celebrate the destruction of Israel within 25 years, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News reported Tuesday. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a foreign policy adviser to Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, announced the conference saying that is a symbol of the...

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Protesters gathered outside as Iran’s Justice Minister Alireza Avaei, who is under a European Union travel ban for human rights violations, spoke before the United Nations Human Rights Council, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Avaei, who, like his predecessor, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi, played a role in thousands of summary executions...

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