Iran’s response to President Trump’s decertification of the nuclear deal, teased all week and finally made official on Friday, includes a mixture of belligerent rhetoric, ominous threats, and uncertainty about whether the deal can survive.
In his keynote speech to the Texas National Security Forum at the University of Texas on Thursday, CIA Director Mike Pompeo called Iran a “thuggish police state” and “despotic theocracy” similar to the Islamic State.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – From its warmongering in Iraq, Syria, and to a degree in Yemen, to its meddling in Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories and Turkey, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its terrorist proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, have caused chaos in the Middle East region since it came to power in 1979.
Voice of America reported on Thursday that “some U.S. officials see little downside to decertifying the Iran nuclear deal,” but the tenor of those quoted in the piece might be better described as, “decertifying the deal is not a big deal.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he has authorized the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under terrorism Executive Order 13224; a move the leader of the free world said was “long overdue.”
Former Navy SEAL and Blackwater CEO Erik Prince joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, chances that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps will be designated a terrorist organization, and the state of affairs in Afghanistan.
With the possibility of President Donald Trump formally designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, the two top Iranian commanders praised their corps as terrorism fighters and accused the United States of providing material support to the Islamic State, including weapons.
On Wednesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) released a new 52-page investigative report titled, “Iran’s Nuclear Core: Uninspected Military Sites” that purports to name four new military sites, and two headquarters where the Iranian regime is allegedly advancing its nuclear program, far from compliance.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the fate of the Iran nuclear deal.
A spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the United States would be making a “strategic mistake” by designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization. “If they do, Iran’s reaction would be firm, decisive, and crushing and the United States should bear all its consequences,” the spokesman said.
The Iranian navy claimed Sunday that it warned an American warship that approached a damaged Iranian fishing vessel in the Sea of Oman last week to stay away from the area. U.S. officials denied the encounter.
Troops from state sponsor of terrorism Iran has bragged about killing hundreds of Americans as U.S. President Donald Trump begrudgingly re-certified the controversial nuclear accord struck by his predecessor.
An Iranian vessel approached a U.S. Navy ship in an aggressive and unsafe manner on Tuesday, ignoring all attempts to communicate and forcing the Navy ship to fire warning shots.
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The former leader of the student branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Basij forces, who arrived in the United States to work as a medical scholar at a prominent Boston hospital, was deported back to Iran on Thursday after being detained at Logan International Airport.
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TEL AVIV – All Saudi Arabia’s actions end up benefiting Israel, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament on Tuesday told a visiting group of ambassadors from Muslim nations in Tehran.
Saudi Arabia has alleged that its military arrested three members of Shiite Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who were plotting to carry out a terrorist attack on a major offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf.
TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian official said Monday that Tehran’s retaliatory strike against the Islamic State in Syria was also a warning to Israel, and the Jewish state has “reason to worry.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched six missiles into the Deir ez-Zor region of eastern Syria on Sunday, a province that is home to Islamic State militants and civilians, in retaliation for the jihadi group’s series of attacks in Tehran on June 7 which left 18 dead and dozens injured.
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Iraj Masjedi, a general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, assumed his post as the new Iranian ambassador to Iraq on Wednesday. The appointment could be an ill omen of Iran’s influence in post-Islamic State Iraq.
TEL AVIV – Israel will do everything in its power to stop Iranian proxies gaining strength on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights just as it has done in the past, Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Breitbart Jerusalem amid news that an Iran-backed Shiite militia had been formed with the goal of “liberating the Golan Heights from Israel.”
TEL AVIV – The newly formed “Golan Liberation Brigade,” an Iran-backed Shiite militia, heightens the threat posed by the Islamic Republic on Israel’s northern border, Minister of Intelligence and member of the Security Cabinet Israel Katz told the Jerusalem Post on Monday.
TEL AVIV – An Iranian-backed Shiite militia, armed with Russian tanks via the Syrian army, this week announced the formation of a dedicated brigade to “liberate the Golan Heights” from Israel, the state-controlled Fars news agency reported.
Fox News delivers an astonishing report about the extent of Iran’s smuggling network.
TEL AVIV – The leader of a Palestinian terrorist group in Lebanon called for an “all-out war” with Israel and Jordan, in which Iranian soldiers would fight to “liberate Palestine.”
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a scathing criticism of the UN Security Council over their “anti-Israel” bias on Thursday after emerging from her first regular monthly meeting at the international body.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pushed for new sanctions against the Iranian regime following news that Iran’s Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani defied a United Nations resolution forbidding him from leaving his country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time, on Tuesday, a group of Iranian dissidents revealed an intelligence report specifying the scope of terrorist training camps run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Quds Forces within Iran, and called on the Trump administration to designate the group as a terrorist organization.
TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian official goaded President Donald Trump on Sunday, insisting the U.S. would suffer an “unprecedented defeat” at the hands of an “iron dam” like Iran.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration may designate Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, Reuters has learned from U.S. officials speaking on conditional of anonymity.
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force boasted that Iran is now capable of designing and producing all the missiles and aircraft it needs, the state-supported news agency Tasnim reported.
Thirty members of the Iranian opposition, including human rights activists and former political prisoners, have penned an open letter to President-elect Donald J. Trump in which they’ve expressed their interest in meeting with America’s soon-to-be 45th president.
TEL AVIV – Amid ongoing Iranian threats to “retaliate” if the U.S. pursues a decade-long sanctions extension, Iran has managed to enhance both the quality and quantity of ballistic missiles, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ air and missile force boasted.
Tens of thousands of Iranians, from various parts of the nation, gathered at the site of the tomb of King Cyrus the Great in Pasargadae Friday morning on the anniversary of his birthday to protest the clerical regime’s policies.
On Sunday, Donald Trump said the Iranian regime’s ransom-for-hostages program will not continue if he becomes president.
