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Iran’s Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi warned on Tuesday that the nation’s Armed Forces are prepared to combat any threat from the United States.

Former Iranian IRGC commander-in-chief Mohsen Rezaei reportedly warned President Donald Trump “there are more than 50,000 American troops” within Iran’s firing range who they could attack in response to Trump’s threats to the regime.

The United States Treasury Department on Tuesday issued a fresh set of sanctions against Iran, targeting five Iranians who are linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and who provided ballistic missile support to Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari on Wednesday decried several “treacherous” regional countries for their silence and inaction against Israel in the aftermath of the deaths of nearly 60 Palestinians on the Gaza border on Monday.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions Tuesday on the Central Bank of Iran’s Governor and a senior official, as well as an Iraq-based bank and its chairman, on charges of terror for moving money to Hizballah for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF).

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Forces General Qassem Soleimani reportedly arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday to meet with the Shi’ite leaders following preliminary results from Saturday’s Iraq Parliamentary elections.

Iran is planning to retaliate for recent deadly airstrikes in Syria attributed to the Jewish state by having its proxies fire missiles at military targets in northern Israel sometime in the near future, defense officials warned on Sunday.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) charged one Iranian entity and nine Iranians on Friday in a hacking scheme to steal intellectual property and information from at least 144 United States-based universities, various companies, and government agencies for private financial gain.

Iran has accused Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) of spreading “amateurish lies” by saying that Iran is harboring al-Qaeda terrorists, including the late Osama bin Laden’s son, to mask the kingdom’s role in 9/11.

President Donald Trump sent the Iranian people a Nowruz (New Year) message and blasted the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for funding terrorism and propping up dictators at the cost of the livelihood of their people at home.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the United States on Sunday for not defying the Second Amendment by passing a nationwide ban on guns, blaming lawmakers’ respect for the Constitution on “corruption.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has reportedly engaged in a series of coordinated cyber warfare tactics to spy on, police, and arrest the Iranian people to secure its theocracy.

Tehran has reportedly promised to grant permanent residency to Iran-recruited Afghan Shiite militiamen coerced into combating armed groups in Syria seeking to remove dictator Bashar al-Assad, including the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

Iran’s Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced an Iranian-American man and his wife, both of whom are adherents to the ancient Zoroastrian faith, to 27 and 16 years each on charges of espionage and for being a Zoroastrian dual national.

A group of Iranian members of parliament claimed “unfavorable weather conditions” forced them to postpone a planned January 28 visit to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison where hundreds of protesters who participated in wide-ranging and ongoing uprisings throughout the country are being held.

Iranian lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi alleged this week that at least one of the protesters who died in an Iranian prison after being detained was forced to take pills that made him sick.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani announced on Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s central bank has stopped issuing permits and licenses for new private banks or commercial lenders.

Approximately ten members of Iran’s parliament will reportedly be granted access to visit anti-regime prisoners who were arrested during the mass uprising that has rocked the Islamic republic since December 28.

Reports surfacing this week indicate that the Iranian regime has deployed online bots to push back against the people who want it dismantled and have relied on Internet access to organize protests.

Despite protests calling for greater economic restraint in funding projects to promote Shiite Islam around the world, Islamic leaders during a Friday prayer called for more money to go towards Shiite seminaries in Iran.

Protesters in Iran thanked President Donald Trump for his vocal support for their cause in a message published this weekend, in which they also called on him to impose stronger sanctions, including for human rights abuses, on Iran’s regime.

President Donald Trump’s decision to keep the United States in the Iran nuclear deal on Friday was coupled with a warning to his European allies: “Fix the deal’s disastrous flaws, or the United States will withdraw.”

Videos have surfaced of Iranian parents protesting outside of Iran’s Evin Prison, some setting up encampments and confronting police, in defense of individuals arrested for protesting in the past two weeks.

WASHINGTON, DC – Senior administration officials announced on Friday that President Donald Trump will waive, once more, the nuclear sanctions that the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) require so that the United States can remain in the Iran deal.

In a piece titled, “Instagram Shuts Down Page of Iran’s Hero General Soleimani Again!” Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency protested the social media platform on Wednesday, which recently shut down IRGC-Quds Forces Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s page for a third time.

A new report suggests that President Donald Trump’s national security advisor H.R. McMaster is rushing to save the deeply flawed nuclear Iran deal, which was seen as a hallmark of former President Obama’s legacy, ahead of Friday’s deadline for recertification.

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says the Iranian regime has the advantage of guns, which it has used against the freedom-craving people of Iran over the last two weeks of protests and uprisings.

A video has surfaced on social media showing a former member of Iran’s Basij militia burning his ID card in solidarity with the people of Iran and against the Islamic Regime.

Anti-regime Iranians who are intent on seeing the dismantling of Iran’s Islamic regime have gone to war against pro-regime loyalists over social media.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published a piece on Sunday suggesting Iran’s late Reza Shah – the grandfather of Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi – committed a grave “evil” by banning the compulsory hijab.

The Iranian government declared victory over the protest movement for the third time on Sunday, but the demonstrators keep coming back, and there are signs the regime is beginning to crack.

The State Department announced on Thursday that Iran’s Islamic regime has arrested at least 1,000 Iranians since protests began and announced that it will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the uprising and how to provide support for the people.

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have reportedly deployed their forces to three provinces in an attempt to quash anti-government protests who are intent on dismantling the Islamic regime and replacing it with a free, democratically-elected government.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Saturday that he sent a letter to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and elite Quds Forces Commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani, warning him that the United States “will hold Iran accountable for any attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq.”

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