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15 Sep 2022, 4:24 am by Emma Snell
The State Department, which is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to their capture, said that those charged worked for tech companies linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a powerful branch of Iran’s military. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 4:39 am by INFORRM
To begin with, this pusillanimity was attributable partly to the government’s desire to secure freedom for Terry Waite, who was being held hostage in Lebanon by forces related to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and partly out of concern for the businessman Roger Cooper, who had been found guilty of spying in Iran. [read post]
8 Sep 2022, 8:07 am by Tess Bridgeman
The United States is again involved in tit-for-tat hostilities in Syria with unspecified “Iran-backed militia groups. [read post]
4 Sep 2022, 4:15 pm by INFORRM
In 1989, Iran’s then Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie’s execution. [read post]
4 Sep 2022, 12:13 pm by Steve Lubet
Nader Hashemi, a specialist on Islam-West Relations, opined on the Iran Podcast that Israel was probably behind the life-threatening attack, as an attempt to derail renewed nuclear negotiations with Iran. [read post]
30 Aug 2022, 3:02 am by JURIST Staff
We the people, alongside with the opposing political parties, know that the moment this happens all the people protesting in Green Zone who support Muqtada al-Sadr will not be happy and might escalate the situation much further, and this time their leader will not be there to stop them. 8:31 am : one of the most influential Shi’a religious authorities called “Al- ha’ree” announces that he will no longer continue acting in his role due to old age and illness, and advises all… [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 5:59 am by Douglas London
Russian security and intelligence services are concerned that Islamic State fighters or other insurgents in northern and eastern Afghanistan might infiltrate Russia or former Soviet republics with Muslim majorities like Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [read post]
16 Aug 2022, 6:42 am by Matthew Levitt
Notably, the first external assassination plot carried out by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran took place in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 5:00 am by jonathanturley
Mahallati is a professor of religion and Islamic Studies and once served as the Islamic Republic’s ambassador at the United Nations. [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 6:03 am by Sang-Min Kim
Poursafi offered to pay an individual in the United States $300,000 and was working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, an elite unit responsible for its foreign operation. [read post]
Two months later, Abelkhah was sentenced to five years in prison for alleged “collusion to undermine national security” and “propaganda against the Islamic Republic’s political system. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 4:58 am by Emma Snell
More than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war died in the shelling in the town of Olenivka, in territory controlled by Moscow-backed separatists since 2014, according to authorities in the Donetsk People’s Republic. [read post]
20 Jul 2022, 4:52 am by Emma Snell
“War is a violent and difficult endeavor, and the Islamic Republic is not at all happy that people are caught up in war, But in the case of Ukraine, if you had not taken the helm, the other side would have done so and initiated a war,” Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Putin, according to the supreme leader’s office. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The United Nations press release announcing Ghanea's selection lists her nationality as Islamic Republic of Iran. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 9:29 am by Tom Smith
"The strategic deal between Iran and Venezuela is meant to mirror similar strategic agreements that the Islamic Republic signed with China and Russia in recent years," according to the think-tank report. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 10:50 am
At the same time, the Iranian authorities continued their abhorrent assault on children’s rights by executing three people who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime, contrary to their obligations under international law.A review of Iran’s death penalty practice suggests that religious and political offenses are employed in a relatively arbitrary fashion, with religious offenses being used to silence political dissidents and political offenses used to persecute… [read post]
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif expressed concern Tuesday over the increase in human rights violations occurring in Islamic Republic of Iran at the 50th session of the UN’s Human Rights Council. [read post]
27 May 2022, 3:56 am by Emma Snell
The Iran-backed Houthis seized the headquarters of the U.S. [read post]
26 May 2022, 4:16 am by Emma Snell
The Biden administration accused the Russian government of helping Iran’s blacklisted military unit — the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — sell hundreds of millions of dollars of oil around the globe, while the sanctions were targeted at those companies and individuals allegedly involved in the smuggling. [read post]