A former general in the Egyptian military could be the new leader of Al-Qaeda, but his confinement in Iran and potential value as a pawn in US-Iran negotiations mean that his vast military and terrorist experience may not herald a resurgence of the group to 9/11-era levels, according to an expert.
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Lord Alton calls on UK government to hold Iran responsible for its terrorism on European soil
The Lord Alton of Liverpool, a British politician, has written a letter to the British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, calling him to hold the Iranian regime responsible for its acts of state-sponsored terrorism. His letter comes just after the conviction of Assadollah Assadi, the Iranian regime’s terrorist diplomat that was the mastermind of a plot to bomb a gathering held by the regime’s opposition in June 2018 just outside Paris.
EU facing backlash over Iran policy
European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels on Monday for extensive policy discussions, drawing commentary from various lawmakers about existing policies, most notably their policy on Iran.
Terzi says Time for appeasing Iran is over
The former Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has written an op-ed about the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran and how this has been routinely ignored by those in the West, leading to the mullahs feeling emboldened to commit more human rights abuses.
US Gen. McKenzie in Oman warns Iran to behave ‘soberly’
U.S. Central Command commander Gen. Frank McKenzie warned Iran against provocations during a visit to Oman on Sunday.
Iran will continue path of General Soleimani to spread terror
Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will continue down the path of resistance that his predecessor, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, pursued prior to his assassination by the United States.
Iranian nationals gather in Brussels to urge EU to sanction terrorist regime
Several members of the Iranian community gathered at the Schuman roundabout in Brussels to call on the European Union to sanction the “terrorist regime of Iran,” during a meeting between the 27 member states at its headquarters on Monday.
Will Riyadh Manama be Iran’s next targets
Iran is more patient than the West, willing to wait years for the right opportunity to pounce, and American policy-makers underestimate this desire to export its revolutionary message.
European approach encourages rogue behavior by Iran
After escaping Iran because of its horrendous human rights situation, I have chosen Ireland to be my second homeland. But I’ve always been perplexed why Europe, which takes oppressed Iranians as refugees, simultaneously accommodates the very regime that is the source of chaos and instability in the region and beyond.
Iran’s state terrorism must be met with maximum pressure and not maximum diplomacy
The International Committee of Parliamentarians for a Democratic Iran deplores the inaction of the UK and EU following the conviction of an Iranian diplomat and his collaborators in Belgium on charges of terrorism and for planning to bomb the Free Iran gathering organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Paris in June 2018.
Confident in its impunity – Iran tried to leverage multiple hostages for the same terrorist
Last November, the Iranian judiciary moved one of its dual-national detainees into solitary confinement to suggest that the implementation of his death sentence was imminent. Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested in 2016 after traveling back to his homeland from his residence in Sweden
