Iranian authorities have announced 29 arrests as women protesting the forced wearing of head coverings have continued across the country, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Friday. According to the RFE/FL the Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), announced the arrests and charged that...

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In an effort to fix the weaknesses in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a new working group tasked with forming a joint United States-European Union position on Iran’s ballistic missile program “must produce nothing less than a commitment to reimpose tough sanctions on Iran” if it continues to develop...

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The United States has designated Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, as a “global terrorist,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The State Department similarly designated three groups – two Muslim Brotherhood splinter groups, and one Iranian-backed group – as terrorists. The announcement about Haniyeh was made by Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism...

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President Donald Trump hosted United Nations Security Council ambassadors for lunch at the White House, took them to see remnants of rockets identified as originating in Iran, and urged them to fight “Iran’s destabilization activities” in the region, The New York Times reported Monday. During his time with the ambassadors, Trump brought...

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Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis has accused Lebanese officials of allowing Iran to turn the country into “one big missile factory,” in a rare Arabic language opinion piece published Sunday by Lebanese news outlets. In the article which was published in Voice of Beirut and Israeli...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered that $2.5 billion should be transferred from the nation’s reserve fund and to its military, continuing a trend that has been ongoing since the nuclear deal was implemented two years ago, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/ (RFE/RL) reported Thursday. The decision to increase the military...

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Ahead of a vote in the House of Commons Thursday to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization, two experts have urged Members of Parliament to recognize that there is no distinction between the so-called “political” and “military” wings of the Lebanon-based group. A recent poll showed that...

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In the wake of the anti-government protests in Iran, the United States government could show its support for the protesters by targeting the vast financial empire controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mark Dubowitz and Saeed Ghasseminejad argued in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Dubowitz,...

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A social media campaign has taken off to identify and locate an Iranian woman who was filmed waving a hijab from a pillar box in Tehran—a punishable offense in the Islamic Republic—who has gone missing, The BBC reported on Tuesday. The news outlet said that renowned human rights lawyer Nasrin...

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The head of CIA warned that a cash-starved and expansionist North Korea could sell its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology to other countries, including Iran, and that failure to halt such activity could trigger a global nuclear arms race. CIA Director Mike Pompeo spoke about national security challenges at...

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