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Flag of Badr Organization, an Iranian proxy. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

House introduces bill to sanction Iranian terror group

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A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to sanction a top Iranian terror proxy group in Iraq that has targeted U.S. personnel in Baghdad. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) introduced the measure on Thursday...
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...
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...
Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie brief the press at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16, 2017. Credit: Department of Defense Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Dominique A. Pineiro.

US general: Soleimani killing has had ‘significant effect’ in deterrence against Iran

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The elimination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani by the United States earlier this year has had “significant effect” in deterring the Iranian threat, though the Islamic Republic remains the greatest threat in the...

Iran to execute alleged US-Israel spy

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Iran announced on Tuesday that it will execute a suspected spy for the U.S. and Israel who relayed to those nations information regarding the location of former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Gen. Qassem...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 27, 2019, where he testified about the U.S. State Department's 2020 budget proposal. Credit: Screenshot.

Pompeo questioned at two-hour hearing on Soleimani, Iran, nuclear weapons, virus

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that the United States has offered Iran assistance to fight coronavirus. “We have made offers to the Islamic Republic of Iran to help, and we’ve made...
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook announces U.S. sanctions against Iranian Brig. Gen. Hassan Shavapour on Jan. 17, 2020, at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

US official says successor to Soleimani faces same fate if he kills Americans

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U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook said the successor to slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, who now heads the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, would suffer the...
Protests at Amir Kabir University in Tehran against the government and its leaders after Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 passengers on board. Photo: Mohsen Abolghasem via Wikimedia Commons.

How solidarity with Palestine inspires resistance in Iran

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Once again, talk of regime change is in the air inside Iran. Not since the crushing of the 2009 student-led protests has the Islamic Republic, as of this year entering the fifth decade of...