Iran’s installation of the Russian-built S-300 surface-to-air missile system outside the Fordow nuclear enrichment facility is “of concern” to the United States, a State Department spokesman told reporters on Monday. “We’ve seen the reports of this deployment,” Spokesman John Kirby said. “Obviously, that’s of concern to us because we have long objected to...

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The Iranian foreign minister’s visit to Latin America last week signaled the Islamic Republic’s intent to rebuild its missile program in the Western Hemisphere, Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis on Monday. “Iran has long relied on Latin America to evade...

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Iran has arrested a member of its nuclear negotiating team on espionage charges, the country’s judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. Iranian media outlets identified the man as Abdul Rasoul Durri Esfahani, a dual citizen who participated in banking-related aspects of the negotiations that led to last year’s nuclear deal, The Guardian reported. “(News of) the arrest of the...

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Iran has deployed Russian S-300 anti-missile batteries, which are believed to be one of the most effective defense systems in the world, to protect its nuclear enrichment facility in Fordow, state media reported Sunday. Iran received a shipment of the weapons in April. Their delivery had been held up for several years...

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President Barack Obama didn’t support the pro-democracy “Green Revolution” protests that swept Iran after its disputed 2009 presidential election because he feared that they would “sabotage his secret outreach to Iran,” Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake wrote on Wednesday. In his review of The Iran Wars, a new book by Wall Street Journal chief foreign correspondent...

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President Barack Obama changed his mind about launching a retaliatory strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces carried out a sarin gas attack that killed more than 1,400 people in August 2013, after Iran threatened to pull out of then-secret nuclear talks, the chief foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal said on Monday....

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The White House’s failure to ensure that the nuclear deal with Iran did not prevent the Islamic Republic from building new nuclear power plants has come under heavy fire from both Democratic and Republican politicians in the past few days. After top Iranian nuclear official Ali Salehi announced last Thursday...

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A video released last week of a man convicted of smuggling military equipment to Iran has shed new light on the activities of the Iranian national and six Iranian-Americans who were released by the U.S. as part of a deal to free several of its citizens from Iranian captivity, ABC News reported on Friday....

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The one-year anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal came and went in Israel, with barely a mention in the local media—that is, until Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman decided to respond to President Barack Obama’s assertion during a press conference in early August that the Israeli “military and security community” fully...

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Iran has improved its cyberwarfare capabilities and made significant progress in developing more advanced ballistic missiles in the year since the nuclear deal was reached, the U.S. Defense Department has determined. Iran has “a substantial inventory of missiles capable of reaching targets throughout the region, including U.S. military bases and...

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