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Ali Shamkhani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and a leading adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Credit: Tehran Times.

Iran: US making ‘illegal threats’ over nuclear program

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Iran on Saturday accused the United States of making “illegal threats” against it over its nuclear program. The rebuke followed U.S. President Joe Biden’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House...
Iran's president-elect Ebrahim Raisi. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Biden administration has a Raisi problem

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Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in as the eighth president of the Islamic Republic on Thursday. According to the Iranian press, dozens of foreign delegations will attend the ceremony in Tehran, even amid a...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews new nuclear achievements during the country’s National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, April 10, 2021. Credit: Iranian Presidency Office.

Rouhani: Israel ‘took Iran’s nuclear secrets and gave them to Trump’

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Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in his last speech to his cabinet ministers on Monday night that Israel did seize Iran’s nuclear archive, as former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had revealed in...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a video teleconference with the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 22, 2021. Credit: State Department. Photo by Ron Przysucha/Public Domain.

US says Iran nuclear talks cannot continue ‘indefinitely’

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that negotiations with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal could not continue “indefinitely.” “We are committed to diplomacy, but this process cannot go on indefinitely,”...
Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi during the election campaign, June 14, 2021. Credit: Armin2210 via Wikimedia Commons.

Report: Iran not resuming nuclear talks until takeover of Raisi government

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Iran will not resume talks with world powers over a return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear accord until President-elect Ebrahim Raisi’s government is operative, Reuters reported on Thursday. This probably won’t be until...
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the phone with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 12, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

US allies face America’s Revolutionary People’s Army

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During his Senate confirmation hearing, Defense Secretary General Lloyd Austin gave an ominous description of how he viewed the Pentagon’s mission. He began his statement blandly enough. “The job of the Defense Department is to...
A poster marking Iran’s Nuclear Technology Day shows the nuclear scientists killed on the way to realizing Iran’s advance in the military and civilian nuclear field—to the right of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is a picture of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's assassinated nuclear chief. Credit: Iranian press.

Iran marks National Nuclear Technology Day, signaling defiance of the United States

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Iran marked the “National Day of Nuclear Technology” on April 10. To commemorate, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced 133 new atomic energy projects, presented to President Hassan Rouhani and online. The achievements were in...
Official website of Ali Khamenei, Supreme leader of Iran, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The Iran-China deal is cause for Israeli concern

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While Israel was busy with the domestic political imbroglio surrounding last week’s Knesset elections, a strategic threat that could threaten the country’s very existence was developing. If the Iranian-Chinese alliance reaches its full potential, the Middle...
An aerial view of Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C., Dec. 14, 2016. Credit: Mike Vaccaro/U.S. Army via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran said to have threatened ‘USS Cole-style’ attack against Washington’s Fort McNair

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Iran has threatened to attack an army base in Washington, D.C., as well as the vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army, the AP reported on Sunday. Citing “two senior U.S. intelligence officials” speaking on condition...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Credit: Marc Müller via Wikimedia Commons.

Zarif: Iran expects compensation for $1 trillion damage from US sanctions

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday said that the unilateral sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country have cost the Islamic Republic’s economy more than $1 trillion. Tehran expects to...