Iran’s supreme leader appointed a new chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Sunday, just days after the United States designated the force – and its extraterritorial branch, the Quds Force – as a foreign terrorist organization. Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, who has vowed to “cleanse the...

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The United States announced Monday the end of waivers that allowed eight countries to import Iranian oil without facing U.S. sanctions as part of an escalating campaign to bring Iran’s crude exports “to zero” and undercut Tehran’s power across the Middle East. The announcement affects China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea,...

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Social media giant Instagram has suspended the accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF). While Khamenei’s English account was suspended, his Farsi one remains active. The accounts were shut down on Tuesday, a day after the...

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U.S. President Donald Trump has vetoed a bill passed by Congress to withdraw support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that backs the intentionally-recognized Yemeni government against Iranian-sponsored Houthi rebels. “This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave...

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An Iranian woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in a public protest in 2017 has been sentenced to one year in prison, her lawyer said Sunday. Vida Movahed became a symbol of resistance after authorities arrested her on the first day of nationwide anti-regime protests. Demonstrations had broken out...

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An Israeli delegation has canceled plans to attend a business conference in Bahrain due to threats of terrorism, organizers of the event said Sunday. The Waad Allah Brigades, an Iranian-backed Shiite militia group operating in the kingdom, had threatened in a video message to launch a drone attack on Israeli representatives....

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The United States has formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) as a foreign terrorist organization, a notice in the U.S. Federal Register confirmed on Monday. In a statement on the website, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: “I hereby designate the aforementioned organization and its aliases...

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With the designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) as a terrorist organization, the United States has taken a critical step in curbing the regime’s aggression in the region and its ongoing intention to arm itself with nuclear weapons, TIP CEO and President, Josh Block, argued in an...

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In an unprecedented move, the United States designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force, the extraterritorial branch of the IRGC, as a terrorist organization on Monday. It is the first time that the U.S. has designated another nation’s army as a terrorist group. “The IRGC is the...

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Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited a secret facility in Tehran that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was an undeclared “atomic warehouse,” Reuters reported Thursday. “They’ve visited the site,” an anonymous source told the outlet. One diplomat said that the IAEA had been to the...

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