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BY AMIR TOUMAJ Source: Threat Matrix Blog on The Long War Journal   Iranian media have confirmed the deaths of two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members in recent weeks. The circumstances of their deaths thus far …

More than 100,000 foreign terrorists backed by Iran continue their activities at around 230 locations in Syria, backing the Bashar Assad regime’s in campaign against opposition fighters across the country Source: Andalou Agency via Daily Sabah …

By Amir Toumaj Source: FDD’s Long War Journal While Iranian-backed parties are moving to form a government in Baghdad that could force the US to exit the country, they face growing public anger in oil-rich Basra …

Trump’s ploy to force countries to choose between doing business with the US or Iran is working. While German firms in Iran have been preparing for months for the sanctions, the outflow of companies is not …

By Alex Lockie Source: Business Insider Analysis President Donald Trump has outraged and defied establishment experts on Iran, but his policies are deeply hurting Iran without any tangible blowback to the US. President Barack Obama and …

By Clifford Kraus Source: The New York Times HOUSTON — When President Trump announced in May that he was going to withdraw the United States from the nuclear agreement that the Obama administration and five other countries negotiated …

By Tyler Stapleton and Saeed Ghasseminejad  Source: The Hill   With its economy reeling and its currency in free fall, Iran hired a new central banker in August to restore public confidence. President Hasan Rouhani appointed Abdolnaser Hemmati to replace Valiollah …

By: Alex Rankine Source: MoneyWeek September 15, 2018   The five states bordering the world’s biggest inland body of water, which is rich in fossil fuels, have just reached a deal trumpeted as a “regional constitution”. What …

The regime launched a missile strike against innocent Iraqi Kurds in order to make a point to America. Source: Bloomberg By Eli Lake   When a regional power wants to assert itself and intimidate its rivals, it …

Ahmadinejad Lambasts Chief of IRGC’s Notorious Intelligence Organization Source: RadioFarda   Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has levelled damning charges against IRGC Intelligence Chief calling him “psychologically imbalanced” and thus not fit for the job. In …

By James Cooke Source: Telegraph   Millions of documents, including sensitive research on nuclear power plants and cybersecurity defence, have been stolen from top British universities by Iranian hackers, the Telegraph can reveal.  Infiltration of the …

The number of Shia Pakistani fighters active in the Syrian conflict is hard to verify. By Suddaf Chaudry Source: The Arab Weekly KARACHI – Members of Pakistan’s Shia community have been complaining that their relatives are victims …

Source: Radio Farda Claiming that Iran has the “upper hand” in the region, the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has dismissed the possibility of a U.S. attack against Iran. “The United States …

  By Josh Rogin Source: The Washington Post Stealing documents off President Trump’s desk isn’t the only way his top aides are trying to prevent him from taking action on foreign policy. Several administration officials claim that Treasury …

By Babak Taghvaee Source: The Globe Post Despite all the efforts, the exiled Iranian political-militant organization Mojahedin-e Khalq’s (MEK) remains unpopular among ordinary Iranians, Iranian dissidents, and opposition figures in the United States. When the U.S. Department …

By Holly McKay, Mohsin Saleem Ullah Source: Fox News Iran is stepping up its involvement with political and militant Shiite groups in Pakistan, in what foreign affairs experts see as an escalating shadow proxy war with …

Source: Asharq Al-Awsat   A ministerial committee condemned on Tuesday Iran’s ongoing meddling in the internal affairs of Arab countries. The Arab quartet ministerial meeting is tasked with following up on the crisis with Iran and …

Source: Asharq Al-Awsat   A federal judge in Washington, DC on Monday ordered Iran to pay $104.7 million to victims of a June 1996 truck bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 US military personnel, though …

By Benny Avni Source: New York Post September 10, 2018 With Baghdad’s politics back in chaos, America needs to up the battle against Iran’s influence over Iraq. Last week angry protesters torched the Iranian consulate in …

by Seth Frantzman Source: Tzarism September 11, 2018 The IRGC missile launcher and the destruction at Koya (screenshot, left; Zach Huff, right) Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran …

Source: Al-Arabiya   In August 29, 1966, Sayed Qutb, the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, was hanged to death, after he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. There …

Source: Rudaw Video 1 & Video 2 10.57 p.m. Aftermath of Iran missile attack Rudaw footage shows the scale of the damage caused by three Iranian missiles which hit the PDKI headquarters on Saturday. Khalid Wanawsha, …

A fragmented Iraqi Shia polity allows Tehran to maintain influence over Iraqi politics and security.    By Ali Alfoneh Source: Arab Weekly After years of Tehran’s psychological operations and information warfare in Iraq, Washington has struck …

Iranians are fed up with broken promises. But they need external support—even from Donald Trump. By ALIREZA NADER Source: Politico Magazine   In a speech on Sunday titled “Supporting Iranian Voices,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …

By Eli Lake Source: Asharq Al-Awsat As if the free world didn’t have enough to worry about with Russian fake news, now the world leader in state-sponsored terrorism is getting into the act: Iran is running a …

By Amir Taheri Source: Asharq Al-Awsat   Is Russian President Vladimir Putin treating the Syrian conflict as a geopolitical version of a symphony by Tchaikovsky? Well, he started his intervention in Syria with a soft overture …