TEL AVIV – The Iranian defense minister has warned that President-elect Donald Trump could trigger a world war which would “destroy” Israel and small Gulf Arab states if he pulls out of the nuclear deal.
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.
TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian cleric called for Iran to “retaliate” over U.S. “violations” of the nuclear deal, following Thursday’s vote in Congress to level new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
TEL AVIV – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials are using intimidation and “blackmail” tactics against President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump to extort further concessions from the U.S., an expert on the Islamic Republic told the Algemeiner on Monday.
The UN atomic energy agency’s latest report on Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal it reached with six world powers last year “borders on deception by omission,” a Washington, DC-based think tank said in an analysis published this week.
An Iranian court has sentenced Golamreza “Robin” Shahini, a dual American-Iranian citizen from San Diego, to 18 years in prison for allegedly “collaborating with a foreign government” and for Facebook posts.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began his address to the U.N. General Assembly by saying the “painful terrorist attack” against New York City on 9/11 “moved the entire world,” but also led to “a devastating war in the Middle East, and the spread of insecurity across the globe.”
According to a report by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based think tank with a retroactively unfortunate acronym, Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran includes even more secret side deals than we thought – most, or all, of them favoring Iran.
LOS ANGELES, California — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton declared Sunday that the Iranian nuclear deal is the “worst act of appeasement in American history.” Bolton was speaking at the Luxe Hotel on Sunday for the American Freedom Alliance’s conference, titled “Islam and Western Civilization: Can They Coexist?”
TEL AVIV – Confronting the U.S. is the only choice Iran has left, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned Wednesday.
July 14 marked one year since the Iranian regime and six world powers (P5 +1) reached the historic and controversial nuclear accords, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), begging the question as to whether the world is a safer and more stable place.
On Tuesday, Iran’s transportation minister announced that the country has reached a deal with U.S. aerospace giant Boeing (BA) signifying the first major deal between the two nations since the historic Joint Comprehension Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal, came to fruition last summer.
The Iran nuclear deal has been in effect for nearly six months now. Amid an internal power struggle, Iran’s hardliners are seeking both to undermine international business dealings between the country’s so-called moderates and are urging President Hassan Rouhani to scrap the historic agreement altogether.
TEL AVIV – The Iranian daily Resalat published an article claiming that the U.S. is planning to implement a series of additional Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreements aimed at eradicating Iran.
Hours after the Iranian regime breached United Nations Security Council treaties by test-firing ballistic missiles on Tuesday, the nation’s leadership has again threatened to walk away from the nuclear deal they had agreed to in July of last year.
The Iranian regime’s growing disdain for human rights were the subject of large protests in Paris this week that coincided with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s arrival there.
China has sought to take major advantage of the lifting of international sanctions against Iran, agreeing to trade deals with the Ayatollah’s Islamic Republic worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
A week after the Iranian military arrested, detained overnight, and later released ten U.S. sailors, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he was “very angry” that they Ayatollah’s militants decided to use the situation for propaganda purposes, in an apparent violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Iran will ignore recently-passed U.S. sanctions against its ballistic missile program, the regime’s defense minister pledged on Monday, promising to unveil new homemade weapons systems in the near future.
The Iranian community in Los Angeles had very mixed reactions to the lifting of sanctions against Iran, known as Implementation Day, which was initiated on January 16.
The notion that the Obama administration’s talking points increasingly sound like they are coming out of Tehran was further solidified this week, culminating with an op-ed published by Bloomberg confirming that the State Department acquiesced to Iran’s demand to reject new missile sanctions.
The Islamic Republic of Iran revealed Tuesday what appeared to be an underground missile base, with state-television footage showcasing a stockpile of precision-guided missiles.
The United States is preparing new sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran after the regime in Tehran conducted ballistic missile tests in violation of international sanctions.
The IAEA’s Board of Governors voted Tuesday to close the longstanding investigation into the past military dimensions (PMD) of Iran’s nuclear research, clearing the way for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to move forward.
Contents: Political crisis in Iran grows over nuclear agreement; Iran arrests journalists for allowing U.S. ‘infiltration network’; The coming regime change in Iran
A report released this month on “The Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran” reveals that Iranians are worse off under “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani than his more conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and that, based on their current trajectory, they are expected to exceed well over 1,000 executions by year’s end.
Speaking in an interview with Iran’s Al Alam TV on Monday, Iranian Brigadier Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said the “Zionist regime’s” collapse may happen in less than 25 years.
While being questioned by Lindsey Graham about the means through which the Obama administration intended to secure the ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter conceded that such efforts were “principally political.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) issued a statement on “Adoption Day” of the Iran deal this Sunday, claiming that the Obama Administration “is looking more naive by the day” in its faith that the Iranian regime will live up to its end of the bargain when considering their activity over the last three months–let alone 35 years.
Less than a month after a hardline member of Iran’s Parliament compared the historic handshake between President Barack Obama and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to signing a pact with the devil, several other members of Parliament (MP) in the Islamic Republic have threatened to execute Zarif and the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEO), Ali Akbar Salehi, over their nuclear deal with the Western world.
The Iranian parliament has rejected the formal, legal text of the President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, negotiated in July by the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the Tehran regime. Instead, the majilis approved their own version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), creating a situation where the Iranian government simple hasn’t signed onto the nukes-and-trade deal that Obama, Democrats and the GOP leaders has obligated the United States to uphold.
Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) joined the ranks of a growing number of Democrats opposed to the Iran deal on Wednesday.
Nearly 200 retired U.S. generals and admirals have signed an open letter opposing the Iran deal and urging Congress to reject the “defective” agreement.
The Reform Jewish movement, the liberal denomination that represents a plurality of American Jews, has declined to endorse, or oppose, the Iran deal.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) announced on Thursday that he will vote against the Iran nuclear deal.
The Iranian regime has filed a complaint with the International Atomic Energy Agency, alleging that the United States has already broken the nuclear deal.
The government of Iran is presenting its deal with Obama to their people and legislature as a triumph, speaking openly about provisions that have been misrepresented to the American people and Congress by the Obama administration.
The Obama administration has sent the Iran nuclear deal to Congress for a 60-day review provided by the Corker bill. However, President Barack Obama has pre-empted Congress by going to the UN Security Council first, which has already voted to end international sanctions and accept the deal. Furthermore, even if Congress rejects the deal, it will struggle to muster a two-thirds majority to override the president’s veto. There is one effective way, however, that the Iran deal can be rejected: states and local governments can refuse to comply with it.
Iranian regime Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Tuesday that he was upset by comments made by U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who declared before his trip to Israel that the recently agreed-upon Iran nuclear deal “does nothing to prevent the military option” against Tehran’s nuclear facilities.
The United Nations Security Council voted 15-0 on Monday to pass Resolution 2231, which endorses the Iran nuclear deal–“the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] signed in Vienna by the five permanent members of the Council, plus Germany, the European Union and Iran.” However, there are already sharp disagreements between Iran and the rest of the world as to what that deal actually means.
