This article looks at the numbers in Iran’s defense budget before and after the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal with the P5+1 group, under which $110 billion-worth of assets were released.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Events
Iran says willing to sign military security agreements with Gulf states
Tehran is willing to sign military and security agreements with Arab Gulf countries for the sake of the region’s stability, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami told Al Jazeera.
Iranian regime is the godfather of terror
Donald Trump has called Iran “The leading state-sponsor of terror.” In July 2019, America imposed sanctions on Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister. He was identified by the US as an “illegitimate spokesperson for Iran”, which is State Department speak for declaring Zarif a terrorist
Sex slavery and human trafficking by Iran’s ruling regime must be exposed
According to the reports of multiple international organizations, Iran is one of the primary sources and points of exchange – both in terms of import and export – of human trafficking and sex slaves in the world. The following constitutes a brief summary of some of the most appalling statistics regarding the Iranian regime’s engagement in these practices over the past 20 years.
Iran threatens gulf countries making peace with Israel
Iran is escalating threats toward the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, after the United States helped broker peace deals between Israel and the two Gulf states.
How the end of the arms embargo disastrously splits Iranian terror and nukes
The falling of the conventional arms embargo against Iran is not just dangerous because of the SU-30 attack aircraft and defensive S-400 anti-aircraft missile system which Iran may now purchase from Russia.
Iran-linked hackers targeted prominent Israeli organizations in new phase of cyberwar
Two Israeli cybersecurity firms said Thursday that they thwarted a large-scale, Iranian-linked hacker operation in September called Operation Quicksand, which targeted “prominent Israeli organizations.”
Bahrain citizen spying for Revolutionary Guard gets 15-year jail sentence
A Bahraini court has convicted a citizen of spying for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and joining a terror group. The ruling passed by the Major Criminal Court came after a retrial for the defendant in a case dating back to 2013, Al Watan newspaper reported today.
Atomic energy watchdog seeks details on secret Iranian nuclear site
Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have asked the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) to provide details of their claims that Iran maintains a secret nuclear site hidden from the world as a UN-mandated nuclear arms embargo on Iran expires this week.
Experts say maximum pressure only way to oppose Iran
Iran might be the world’s greatest threat to international security, and should have maximum pressure applied to it in a bid to force “regime collapse,” according to a panel of experts convened to discuss the efficacy of sanctions on Tehran.
Iran’s jailed dual nationals – pawns in an IRGC power play
“Fariba, how the time must pass slowly for you, imprisoned, shut away, locked up for wanting to do your job,” a woman said in softly-spoken French. The message is one of hundreds posted to a website dedicated to Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian researcher at a prestigious university in Paris. Only Fariba could not hear them – she was locked away in one of Tehran’s most notorious prisons.
