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Hezbollah agents used Facebook profiles for attractive women to trick targets into installing spyware-infected apps.   By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day on ZDNet The Czech Security Intelligence Service (BIS) has intervened and taken down servers that have been …

By Billy Haisley Source: Deadspin   Yesterday, Iran put together a cheap little PR stunt in order to pretend the government cares about its wildly retrograde prohibition against women attending live soccer matches by allowing a handpicked selection of …

By Abdolsatter Doshouki Source: RadioFarda   The abduction by Jaysh al-Adl insurgents of several Iranian border guardsincluding military men, members of the Bassij militia as well as two IRGC intelligence agents at the Mirjaveh border in Iran’s …

BY AMIR TOUMAJ Source: FDD Long War Journal Earlier this month, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chief commander Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari appointed 50-year old Saeed Mohammad as the new chief of Khatam al Anbiya Construction Base (IRGC-KAA), the …

Agreement sealed in Tehran last month provides for Iran to export crude oil to Russia, where it will be refined and sold worldwide, Foreign Ministry document reportedly specifies Source Times of Israel (TOI) STAFF & AGENCIES   Russia and …

By Samuel Haig  Source: Bitcoin.com   The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has warned U.S financial institutions that the Iranian government might be dodging economic sanctions by using cryptocurrencies. The document highlights challenges arising from peer-to-peer virtual …

Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri (who died in 2009) was the deputy to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and was even supposed to succeed him. His son, Ahmad Montazeri, recently revealed in a series of interviews in Iran that …

Iran’s VP visits Kenya and Uganda for business opportunities. By ALLAN OLINGO Source: The East African (Kenya)   IN SUMMARY Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari was in Uganda and Kenya last week …

Source: RadioFarda     The son of the late Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri has accused senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of planting explosives in the luggage of unwitting Iranian Hajj pilgrims traveling …

By Ambassador Marc Ginsberg  Source: Diplomatic Courier     At the UN General Assembly two weeks ago, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani stood before the world and told a big lie that in the global war on …

Source: AlMasdar News (AMN) Iran would need “less than 12 minutes” to take control of the Middle East, an Iranian top military commander has warned. Iran will give a crushing response to any threat to its …

By Ellen R. Wald , Senior Contributor/Markets Source: Forbes Countries that depend on Iranian oil could, and likely will, continue to import Iranian oil after the sanctions deadline The data on oil movements show conclusively that Iran’s oil …

ISICRC Reports Bulgarian customs authorities report the seizure of  712 kilos (1,566 lbs) of heroin, valued the record heroin haul at 23 million euros ($27 million US). The shipment was found in two trucks with Iranian …

By Amir Taheri Source: Asharq Al-Awsat   Almost a week after the attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, left dozens dead, there is still no consensus on who was responsible.  As in all …

Domestically, the regime will use the terrorist attack to legitimise its iron-fist policy. By Ali Alfoneh Source: The Arab Weekly   As Iran marked Sacred Defence Week, which commemorates the 8-year war with Iraq, there was …

By: SARAH DiLORENZO Source: Associated Press via Our QuadCities   SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazilian police arrested a fugitive Friday who is alleged by U.S. authorities to be Hezbollah’s financier and who has repeatedly been accused of …

By Sophie Baron   Ata’ollah Mohajerani, former regime minister of culture and Islamic guidance, who wrote a book in defense of Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa calling for the death of Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie, now resides in London. …

By Ben Cohen Source: The Algemeiner Iran has bluntly rejected the president of Argentina’s appeal for its cooperation in investigations into two major terrorist attacks on Argentine soil. On a day dominated by US President Donald …

Source: Department of State  Remarks Michael R. Pompeo  Secretary of State Westin Grand Central Hotel New York City September 25, 2018   SECRETARY POMPEO: Thank you. Thank you, all. Thank you. Thanks. So I’m still – it’s …

Political wing not yet proscribed as ministers wanted to keep contact with Lebanon By Patrick Wintour Source: The Guardian   Ministers are pressing to toughen the government’s stance towards Iran by proscribing the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah in Britain. …

By: Frud Bezhan Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL) It was supposed to honor Iranians killed during the devastating Iran-Iraq war, but a billboard in the central Iranian city of Shiraz instead provoked mockery and was removed after it emerged …

Source: The Economic Times   NEW YORK: The US will take into consideration the impact of American sanctions against Tehran will have on India’s Chabahar Port project in Iran that provides a surface link between New Delhi and Kabul, according to a senior …

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction By Benjamin Weinthal Source: Tablet Magazine In a remarkable comment that was ignored by the German media last month, the president of the …

By Obeid Al-Suhaimi Source: Asharq Al-Awsat Bahrain’s Public Prosecution Logo   Manama – Bahrain’s Terror Crime Prosecution referred 169 suspects to trial for the case of formation of a terrorist group detonating a bomb, attempting murder, training on …

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 …