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Core naval command went overboard when Iran sailed up

Edit The Washington Times 21 Jul 2016
The recent release of the investigative report on the "surrender" of two U.S. Navy heavily armed, 48-foot Riverine Coastal Patrol Boats in the North Arabian Sea on Jan. 12 to slightly smaller, armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy center-console fishing-type boats was more than an embarrassment for the Navy. The ... ....

Iran busts terror cell in east, detains 40: Interior minister

Edit Press TV 21 Jul 2016
Iranian security forces have arrested 40 members of a terror cell that planned to carry out attacks in the eastern parts of the country, the interior minister says ... On July 6, four Iranian border guards were killed in an ambush by terrorists in Sistan and Baluchestan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan....

Kuwait court upholds death for alleged spy cell member

Edit Press TV 21 Jul 2016
The court claimed that Ali had reached out to an Iranian diplomat in Kuwait City and later traveled to the Islamic Republic seeking to smuggle large quantities of arms and explosives into Kuwait ... He was found guilty of being “the mastermind of the cell” of 26 members, among them an Iranian, who had been accused of plotting “hostile acts” in Kuwait and possessing weapons....

Iran holds farewell ceremony for Olympians

Edit Press TV 21 Jul 2016
In the Iranian capital Tehran, a farewell ceremony has been held ......

Iran Arrests 40 'Terrorists' In Restive Southeast

Edit Radio Free Europe 21 Jul 2016
Iranian media reports say authorities have arrested 40 people suspected of plotting ... Earlier this month, four Iranian border guards were killed near the Pakistani border. ....

U.S. Treasury Blacklists Three Al-Qaeda Leaders Living In Iran

Edit Radio Free Europe 21 Jul 2016
The United States blacklisted three Al-Qaeda leaders living in Iran, saying they had helped the Islamist militant group on the battlefield, with finance and logistics, and in mediating with Iranian authorities ... Yisra Muhammad Ibrahim Bayumi, 48 and an Egyptian national, mediated with Iranian authorities as of early 2015, Treasury said, and helped Al-Qaeda members living in Iran....

Iran arrests 40 over 'terrorist' plots

Edit The Times of India 21 Jul 2016
Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been the scene of armed clashes in recent weeks between Iranian forces and Sunni militants ... On July 6, Iranian media reported that four Iranian border guards were killed in a clash with armed rebels in Sistan-Baluchistan province without elaborating....

Iranian leader calls Kashmir crackdown a ‘catastrophe’

Edit Kashmir Observer 21 Jul 2016
A top Iranian leader Thursday denounced the India’s crackdown in Kashmir as a 'major catastrophe', urging the Iranian government to take a strong stance against the Indian government over the 'cruel measures' ... The top cleric then urged the Iranian government to adopt an explicit stance ......

Iranian Hardliners Want to Stop Blocking Twitter - to Defeat Saudi Propaganda

Edit Topix 21 Jul 2016
A group of Iranian government hardliners, who typically stand at the forefront of policies curtailing freedom of expression, are demanding that Iran stop blocking Twitter. This sudden change of tune has very little to do with the rights of Iranian users ... ....

Argentina judge seeks extradition of top official of Iranian regime for AMIA bombing

Edit NCRI 21 Jul 2016
NCRI - An Argentine judge is requesting that Singapore and Malaysia arrest a top adviser to the Iranian regime's supreme leader who is accused of masterminding the South American country's worst terrorist attack, The Associated Press reported. Ali Akbar Velayati was the Iranian regime's foreign minister at the time of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires and is now an adviser to Ali Khamenei ... ....

U.S. blacklists three al Qaeda members living in Iran - Reuters

Edit NCRI 21 Jul 2016
The United States on Wednesday blacklisted three members of al Qaeda living in Iran, saying they had helped the Islamist militant group on the battlefield, with finance and logistics, and in mediating with Iranian authorities. �The Iranian regime has held several al Qaeda high-ranking members and lower-level militants since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, though U.S ... ....

Argentina seeks extradition of Iranian over AMIA bombing

Edit Topix 21 Jul 2016
Argentina asks Singapore and Malaysia to extradite former Iranian foreign minister whom it accuses of involvement in 1994 AMIA bombing. Argentina on Wednesday asked Singapore and Malaysia Wednesday to extradite a former Iranian foreign minister whom it accuses of involvement in a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish community center, AFP reports ... ....

From Nice to the Middle East: Only One Way to Challenge ISIS

Edit Common Dreams 21 Jul 2016
Ramzy Baroud. I visited Iraq in 1999. At the time, there were no so-called ‘jihadis’ espousing the principles of ‘jihadism’, whatever the interpretation may be. On the outskirts of Baghdad was a military training camp, not for ‘al-Qaeda’, but for ‘Mojahedin-e-Khalq’, an Iranian militant exile group that worked, with foreign funding and arms, to overthrow the Iranian Republic ... ....
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