WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department on Tuesday targeted a network of banks and businesses that provides financial support to a paramilitary force in Iran, which allegedly trains and deploys child soldiers to fight with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Contents: Gunmen massacre IRGC soldiers and their families during military parade in Ahvaz, Iran; Iran reflexively blames Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, Mossad, and United States; Attack blamed on a local Arab terrorist group, al-Ahvazi separatist movement
Pro-Kurdish protesters attacked Iran’s embassy in Paris on Friday. Iran says that 15 Kurdish activists burned the Iranian flag in front of the embassy.
A report published by Reuters on Friday revealed that Iran is moving ballistic missiles into Iraq, placing the weapons in the hands of its Shiite militia proxies, in order to expand its ability to hit targets across the Middle East in a regional conflict or war against Western powers.
Fox News reported on Wednesday that Iranians are buying passports from foreign countries to evade U.S. sanctions, and Iraq is becoming a veritable supermarket of phony papers for Iranian travelers.
Gen. Rasoul Sanayee Raad, deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Wednesday became the latest Iranian military commander to threaten military action against the United States and confidently predict Iran would emerge victorious from such a conflict.
A top Iranian official has accused Israel of being part of an international conspiracy behind the recent wave of anti-regime protests that rocked Tehran in recent days.
A senior official in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been asleep for the past 40 years if he thinks Iran will bend to America’s demand that they withdraw from Syria.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Wednesday, highlighted Iran’s military capabilities and warned the United States that it would suffer the same deadly fate as Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein it ever attacks the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s military threatened the US on Wednesday, saying that in the event of an American attack, leaders in Washington will end up like deposed and executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
BEIRUT — At least 28 pro-government fighters have been killed in a string of blasts at a regime airbase in central Syria earlier this weekend, a monitor said Sunday as it upped the death toll.
A hardline Iranian organization is reportedly offering $100,000 to anyone who bombs the newly opened United States embassy in Jerusalem.
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).
A series of new protests could occur throughout Iran if millions of citizens feel empowered by President Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday, effectively withdrawing the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal.
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.
Contents: Yemen war changes direction with collapse of Iran-backed Houthi coalition; The Houthi-Saleh ‘alliance of convenience’ crumbles into violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Saturday that he sent a letter to a top Iranian military official warning him that the United States would hold Tehran accountable for any attacks it conducted on American interests in Iraq.
Any new war in the Middle East “will lead to the eradication of the Zionist regime,” the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared on Thursday, according to the semi-official state news agency Fars.
The chief of staff to the Iranian regime’s “supreme leader” said on Tuesday that a US-Israeli “plot” to create a “second Israel” in Iraqi Kurdistan had been thwarted through the seizure of Kurdish territory by Iranian-backed forces over the last week.
TEL AVIV – Iran’s military chief of staff vowed Wednesday that Tehran would confront Israel for “violating” Syrian territory after a strike two days earlier by the IDF on an anti-aircraft battery which fired missiles at Israeli planes inside the war-torn country.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to shut down his Twitter account for using the social media platform – which the Islamic regime has banned for its own citizens – to claim that all Iranians support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
AMMAN – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said President Donald Trump’s hardline position on the nuclear deal, outlined in his decertification speech on Friday, would help prevent Iran from obtaining an arsenal of nuclear weapons in the next few years.
NEW YORK – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that all citizens of the country were Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), standing firm “against aggression and terror” amid threats by President Donald Trump to impose harsher sanctions on Tehran.
NEW YORK – Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Saturday praised President Donald Trump’s speech on Iran as “brave” and slammed Europe – the UK, France and Germany – for “burying their heads in the sand” by staying committed to the deal.
WASHINGTON, DC — Some experts welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, but they said the American leader should have gone a step further and killed the agreement, which some analysts argue has strengthened Tehran’s narco-terror proxy Hezbollah and its hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Contents: Split grows between Iran’s president Rouhani and hardliners; Trump administration considers promoting Iran ‘regime change’
Contents: Selection of new Saudi crown prince portends rapid changes in Mideast; Mohammed bin Salman expected to follow a belligerent foreign policy; Iran’s ballistic missile launch on Syria said to be a flop
Contents: US coalition warplane shoots down Syrian regime warplane targeting SDF; Iran launches missiles at ISIS targets in Deir az-Zour in major escalation
Contents: Iran says Tehran terror attack was by Iranian nationals in ISIS; Turkey approves troop deployment to Qatar after split with Saudi Arabia
This week’s suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria — believed to have been carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime — showed why the Trump administration should designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization, a prominent former US senator and vice presidential candidate said on Wednesday.
The Basij, Iran’s paramilitary forces, this week awarded President Trump their 5th annual “Wet Gunpowder Award” for being the most “anti-Iranian” and “wicked.”
US President Donald Trump is not as flexible as his predecessor Barack Obama was regarding Iran, a top Tehran regime official said this week, the semi-official state news agency Mehr reported.
Iran has the power to compel the Trump administration to abide by the July 2015 nuclear deal, a top Tehran regime official asserted, the semi-official state news agency Fars reported.
Iran’s hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime’s largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington.
(REUTERS) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering a proposal that could lead to potentially designating Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The officials said several
Iranian lawmakers approved plans on Monday to expand military spending to five percent of the budget, including developing the country’s long-range missile program which U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to halt.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced on Monday that he had fulfilled his pledge to replace the country’s centrifuges with the most advanced and modern ones – and that the plan to make a nuclear propulsion system operative is underway, the regime-aligned news agency Tasnim reported.
The head of US Central Command (CENTCOM) called on Iran on Tuesday to stop what he said were “provocative” actions in the Gulf and accused the Iranian leadership of trying to create instability in the region.
Shiite Iran continues to criminalize women’s right’s activism, designating “peaceful” female advocates as “enemies of the state” and using its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to crack down on them, reports human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
Forces from Shiite Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intercepted “terrorists” who infiltrated Iran from Sunni Turkey in a bid to launch attacks in the Islamic Republic, according to state-controlled media. The incident reportedly occurred near the Iran-Turkey border,
