Senior Iranian Officials Claim Kurdistan Referendum a ‘Zionist Plot’
TEL AVIV – Senior Iranian officials claimed Monday’s independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan was a “plot” orchestrated by Israel and the United States.

TEL AVIV – Senior Iranian officials claimed Monday’s independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan was a “plot” orchestrated by Israel and the United States.

TEL AVIV – Mossad chief Yossi Cohen has called on the world to “act now” to prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb, Israeli media reported Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will present President Donald Trump with a detailed plan for how to change or scrap the Iran nuclear deal at a meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Monday.

Kurdish officials are hitting back against Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has expressed “strong opposition” to a September referendum on establishing an independent Kurdistan in what is now Iraq.

TEL AVIV – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the Western perception of women as a “Zionists’ plot to destroy human community” in a tweet on Sunday.

In a speech this month in the East Azerbaijan region of Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said that a war on Iran’s culture and economy is more dangerous to his Islamic regime than any military threat from the West.

TEL AVIV – The U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia should not “get themselves into serious trouble” by taking military action against Iran, the Islamic Republic’s top diplomat said in a BBC interview on Monday.

TEL AVIV – A top general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards over the weekend warned the U.S. to “be wise” and “avoid threats” against the Islamic republic.

At a meeting with Iranian military leaders, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “measures and threats” and blamed his predecessor Barack Obama for creating the Islamic State.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer reacted Tuesday to a statement from Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, who said that Donald Trump “showed the real face of the United States,” accusing him of putting a five-year-old in handcuffs.

TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian cleric called for Iran to “retaliate” over U.S. “violations” of the nuclear deal, following Thursday’s vote in Congress to level new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Two Iranian attorneys and their Kenyan driver were arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, and charged Thursday with illegally filming around the nation’s Israeli embassy, gathering film “for the use in the commission of a terrorist act.”

President Obama’s nuclear deal did not wipe out all sanctions against Iran immediately. The Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 is still in effect, and the U.S. House of Representatives just voted to renew it for another ten years.

TEL AVIV – Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami warned President-elect Donald Trump during Friday prayers “not [to] play with Iran,” and vowed that the Islamic Republic would “resist until our last breath.”

A prominent Quran reciter in Shiite Iran, who has been affiliated with the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been accused of raping multiple children, according to some news outlets.

TEL AVIV – The founder of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that if America tries anything against the Islamic Republic, the regime is capable of deploying nine million troops to fight U.S. forces in a matter of days.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, an adviser to Donald Trump, said on Saturday night that the U.S. should oppose a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until the Palestinians can prove they are capable of renouncing terror, and also expressed his hope that the next president will nullify the Iran deal.

The government of Iran has assembled thousands in the capital, Tehran, to protest Saudi Arabia over a stampede that killed thousands at last year’s hajj pilgrimage. While Iranian media claim the protests were against the Sunni leaders of Riyadh and Bahrain,

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has issued yet another tirade against Saudi Arabia’s control of the holiest site in Islam, Mecca, now claiming that America has “blood” on its hands over a stampede at last year’s hajj pilgrimage that killed thousands.

Islamic authorities in Saudi Arabia have responded to an extensive missive by Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling the Saudis “murderers” and “puny Satans” in response to a massacre that killed thousands at last year’s hajj. Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti dismissed Iran’s ire by arguing that Iranians are “not Muslims.”

Last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei called for the Islamic Republic to remain vigilant against the West’s “soft war” and warned Iran’s “enemies,” specifically the West, were trying to manipulate and control the nation’s policies.

The Iran nuclear deal has been in effect for nearly six months now. Amid an internal power struggle, Iran’s hardliners are seeking both to undermine international business dealings between the country’s so-called moderates and are urging President Hassan Rouhani to scrap the historic agreement altogether.

Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran’s biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Islamist insurgents on Friday seized

A senior Iranian official has announced plans to deploy warships to “friendly states” in Latin America, by which he means a number of nations hostile to the United States.

Despite numerous concessions and a historic treaty that will almost guarantee a pathway to acquiring a nuclear bomb, the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei says the U.S. is still fundamentally hostile towards his nation and has warned Iranians not to trust their old enemy, “the Great Satan.”

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On Thursday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) questioned two leading figures involved with monitoring Iran’s compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran deal.

The Iranian regime will host a ceremony and official unveiling of its new drone, the “Shahed 129,” this Thursday, which, according to Iranian state-controlled outlet Tasnim News Agency, will be attended by Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan. “Shahed” is Persian for “eye-witness.”

China has sought to take major advantage of the lifting of international sanctions against Iran, agreeing to trade deals with the Ayatollah’s Islamic Republic worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Ayatollah Khamenei, the self-declared Supreme Leader of Iran, praised his Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for its arrest and detention of U.S. sailors for allegedly entering Iran’s waters.

Precisely 24 hours after Saturday’s hostage for prisoner swap between America and Iran took place, news broke that three Americans were kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, by Iran-backed militias.

The most prominent leaders in the Shiite world have issued threatening statements against the Saudi monarchy, pledging that the House of Saud will pay a price for executing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was an influential cleric among the Saudi Shiite minority.

On this weekend’s broadcast of the syndicated “McLaughlin Group,” the panelists rolled out their winners and losers of year in the first part of the annual installment of the show’s year-end awards. Winners: Pat Buchanan: Donald Trump, American Pharoah Eleanor

Reports have surfaced, as has denial with equal fortitude, that the head of the Iranian Regime’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, General Qassem Soleimani, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week.

In an unprecedented move, an Iranian government-run newspaper wrote a front page editorial in the form of a letter addressed to President Hassan Rouhani last week, condemning the Iranian government’s censorship of the media and subsequent prohibition of images and mention of former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told Bolivian President Evo Morales that Iran supports whoever confronts bullying powers like the U.S., an Iranian newspaper reported on Tuesday. President Morales praised Iran for inspiring and supporting Bolivia’s resistance to Western domination. In a

In a seismic defeat for Latin America’s left, conservative Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri has been elected president of Argentina. While the transition out of leftist Cristina Fernández de Kircher’s tenure will hurt many of the nation’s questionable alliances, none appears more fragile now than the ties Kircher fostered with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A surge of Iranian attacks against the email and social media accounts of U.S. officials has been detected over the past few weeks, with an emphasis on officials involved in crafting Iran policy. Journalists and academics have also been targeted.

On November 4, 1979, Muslim student revolutionaries in the Islamic Republic of Iran took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and with it claimed 52 American citizens as hostages in what became a 444-day ordeal that would go on to grip America and the world.

Speaking in an interview with Iran’s Al Alam TV on Monday, Iranian Brigadier Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said the “Zionist regime’s” collapse may happen in less than 25 years.
