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A satellite image of the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, Dec. 30, 2001. Credit: NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s Bahrain campaign enters a dangerous new phase

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The normalization of relations between Israel and Bahrain constitutes another significant and painful blow to Iran’s soft belly. However, unlike the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain is of particular historical, religious and political importance to...
Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Bahrain says it foiled Iranian attack earlier this year

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Bahrain’s interior ministry said on Sunday that it had foiled a “terrorist attack” by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps earlier this year. “We want to make clear that this case goes back to early 2020,...
Lana Marks, U.S. ambassador to the Republic of South Africa (right) and Cmdr. Christopher Carroll, commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney, pose for a photo following a luncheon aboard the Carney during a scheduled visit to Cape Town, South Africa, March 16, 2020. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Fred Gray IV/Released.

Report: Iran plotted to assassinate US ambassador to South Africa

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Iran reportedly considered assassinating the U.S. ambassador to South Africa in retaliation for the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani by the United States earlier this year, two...
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Iran announces execution of ‘spy’ for CIA, Mossad

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The Islamic Republic executed a man on Monday for espionage on behalf of American and Israeli intelligence, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported. According to the report, the Iranian judiciary announced that Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd had provided the...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a billboard of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

How Iran uses charities and humanitarian organizations as cover to export its revolution

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A new report that maps out the ways in which Iran’s overseas elite unit, the Quds Force, operates in Syria under various guises has called on the United States to designate three organizations tied to the...
Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. Credit: Massimiliano Mariani via Wikimedia Commons.

Interpol rejects Iranian request for Trump arrest on murder charges

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The International Criminal Police Organization Interpol has denied a request from Iran to issue an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 other unnamed officials whom Tehran claims were involved in the assassination of...
Zeinab Soleimani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons via Khamenei.ir.

Qassem Soleimani’s daughter weds Hezbollah chief’s cousin

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Zeinab Soleimani, the 17-year-old daughter of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in January by U.S. forces, just married Riza Safi al-Din, the son of a senior Hezbollah leader. The couple was...
Alireza Tangsiri, naval commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Credit: Iran Press.

Iranian Navy seeking to establish base in Gulf of Oman, entry to Indian Ocean

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is attempting to establish a new permanent base in the Gulf of Oman and the entry to the Indian Ocean, said its top admiral on Monday. Alireza Tangsiri told the...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani casting his vote in the 2016 elections. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s president warns US of ‘crushing response’ if arms embargo is extended

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani threatened the United States in a speech on Wednesday if it decides to extend a U.N. arms embargo that is set to expire in October. Rouhani also criticized America for withdrawing from the...
This picture, released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on July 27, 2017, claims to show the Simorgh satellite-carrying rocket at Imam Khomeini National Space Center, Iran. Credit: Iranian Defense Ministry.

IRGC claims to have put first Iranian military satellite in orbit

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Wednesday that it had put its first military satellite, called “Noor,” into orbit in a surprise launch. According to the official IRGC website, the satellite successfully reached an...