For years, “Iran experts” in the West have regarded the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as the “deep government” in the Islamic Republic. However, the events of the past weeks, marked by floods that wreaked havoc in 22 of Iran’s 31 provinces, may warrant a second look at that theory
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Cases of child marriage on the rise in Iran
Some 36,000 underage girls got married in Iran during the past year, says an official at the governor-general’s office in Iran’s Zanjan Province
Standard Chartered admits to illegally processing transactions for Iran regime
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), a global financial institution headquartered in London, England, has agreed to forfeiture of $240 million, a fine of $480 million, and to the amendment and extension of its deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the Justice Department for an additional two years for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)
Islamic center of Portland founder is radical supporter of IRGC
Ali Houdroge is one of the founders of the Islamic Center of Portland, a Shiite mosque in Beaverton, Oregon. A series of recent controversial posts to Facebook reveals Houdroge to be a supporter of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was recently declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department
Iranian funded terror cell working against Israel dismantled in central Africa
A terror cell in central Africa that was backed by Iran for the purpose of launching attacks and spreading its anti-Western ideology was dismantled this week, i24NEWS reported on Friday
Tehran shows new fighter jets at military celebration
Iran showcased its domestically made fighter jets by flying the aircraft over Tehran during a military parade Thursday marking National Army Day as the country grapples with U.S. sanctions and the Trump administration’s recent terrorism designation of Iran’s powerful paramilitary force
Assad is wholy-owned subsidiary of Iran regime
A top US diplomat has said that as long as Iran and its militias, including Hezbollah, remain embedded in Syria, he sees no chance for a peace agreement and, even worse, he sees little prospect of Iran ever leaving Syria. In fact, he sees Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as an Iranian puppet
Iranian regime social media smear campaign against Arab states
Since the establishment of the Iranian regime in 1979, one of its most consistent foreign policies has been anchored in projecting the US as its major adversary. Nevertheless, the regime also appears to be increasingly investing significant political and financial capital in depicting some Arab neighbors, particularly Saudi Arabia, as Iran’s main rivals
Iran regime sinks in press freedom index after jailing more journalists
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders says Iran has slipped further toward the bottom of its World Press Freedom index because of an increase in arrests of Iranian journalists and citizen-journalists
Despite sanctions Bulgaria signs six agreements with Iran to widen cooperation
The agreements were signed during a meeting between Iran’s visiting Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami with Bulgarian senior officials, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, in Sofia on Thursday
Next Israeli government could soon face new Iranian terrorist challenges
In Saturday’s early hours, when the attention of most Israelis was focused on politics and election-related matters, enormous blasts rocked a suspected Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory on the outskirts of the town of Masyaf, in northwest Syria. Satellite imagery showed that an entire complex had been destroyed in the bombing
