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Trump: Iran Deal Kept Mullahs in Power

After excoriating the Obama administration’s deal with Iran as “the worst deal ever made in history,” Trump told a small group of conservative journalists meeting with him Monday night that the ...

Failure to aid province highlights Iran's misguided priorities

For days now, large swathes of western Iran have been covered in dust — literally. Dust storms have overwhelmed the oil-rich province of Khuzestan. Air quality is reportedly some 30 to 60 times the ...

Iran Put on Notice: What Next?

Last month, the US imposed new sanctions on Iranian entities involved in weapons procurement. The move came two days after the administration of Donald Trump officially put the regime “on notice” ...

Rafsanjani's Death Could End 3 Decades Of Western Fantasies About Iran

In autumn of 1985, I attended a hearing on Iran at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Who is this Iranian leader who wants to change Iran’s policies?” one lawmaker asked the expert, ...

Iranian political prisoners demand the world's attention

By Ali Safavi On Jan. 4, the reports came from within Gohardasht Prison, near the Iranian capital Tehran, that activist and political prisoner Ali Moezzi, still behind bars despite completing ...

Trump administration should hold Iran accountable for executions

By Ali Safavi Nearly a year after the implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and the ensuing fanfare regarding the possibility of an ...

Executed Nuclear Scientist Returned to Iran After His Family Was Held ‘Hostage,’ Opposition Says

August 9, 2016 Executed Nuclear Scientist Returned to Iran After His Family Was Held ‘Hostage,’ Opposition Says By Patrick Goodenough (CNSNews.com) – The Iranian nuclear scientist ...

The True Face of Iran's Ambitions

Next president should recognize there are no moderates in regime Texas Rep. Randy Weber, holding a sign citing executions in Iran under President Hassan Rouhani, before a House Foreign Affairs ...

Sorry Mr. President, But Your Nuclear Deal Has Not Changed Iran

By Ali Safavi Since the conclusion of nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers last summer, the Iranian regime has carried out at least five provocative ballistic missile tests in defiance ...

In Iran, it's always Groundhog Day A false face of moderation

By: Ali Safavi The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Welcome to U.S. foreign policy towards Iran. The endless repetition of failed ...

Australia's bid to do Iran deal condemned

An Iranian resistance organisation has strongly condemned Canberra's bid to forge a deal with Tehran to return asylum seekers. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has issued a ...

Catholic Church illegally confiscated to be turned into Islamic mosque

By Kenya Sinclair Chaldean Catholic Church in Western Tehran issued several pleas for recovering the stolen property but officials continue to plan for the church's conversion into an Islamic ...

Iranian Officials Plan to Forcibly Convert Christian Church into Mosque

By Carly Hoilman Two years ago, Iranian authorities illegally confiscated a plot of property belonging to an Iranian Assyrian church. Soon the church will be converted into an Islamic mosque, ...