Terror Victims Can See Boeing Contract with Iran Air 3/3/2018 8:23:45 AM A federal judge ruled Boeing must produce its contract with Iran Air CHICAGO (CN) Feb. 28, 2018  - A federal judge ruled Boeing must produce its $16 billion contract with Iran Air, a historic agreement made possible by the Iran nuclear deal, in response to discovery requests filed by victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel. The family of Leibovitch, the lead plaintiff in a group of 21 family members, won a $32 million award for a Palestinian Islamic Jihad attack that killed his brother-in-law and maimed his daughter in 2003. As part of the family’s ongoing attempt to collect on its judgment against Iran, Leibovitch served Boeing with discovery requests seeking to identify Iranian assets being held by the Chicago-based aerospace company. Specifically, the requests seek information about the $16 billion contract between Boeing and Iran Air for 80 commercial airplanes, a d...

ANALYSIS: How Iran’s regime enters its 40th year as an Islamic Republic Iranian women walk past a poster of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the anniversary ceremony of Iran's Islamic Revolution in Behesht Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, February 1, 2016. (Reuters) Heshmat Alavi, Special to Al Arabiya English Monday, 12 February 2018 Text size  A   A   A February 11 marked the beginning of the 40th year Iran's clerics are ruling over what they describe as an "Islamic Republic." The fact that this regime is facing a whirlwind of domestic and foreign crises goes beyond doubt. While Tehran's state media boasts massive support among the populace, remarks heard recently from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei portray a canvas of impasse, a weak entity and the road ahead being uphill, to say the least. In response to increasing unrest across the country protesting political and economic corruption, Khamenei...

Report to Congress on Iran Sanctions 2/1/2018 10:52:39 PM Congressional Research Service report on Iran Sanctions The following is the Jan. 17, 201b Congressional Research Service report, Iran Sanctions. From the Report: US Naval Institute News, February 1, 2018  - The multilateral nuclear accord (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) provides Iran broad relief from U.S., U.N., and multilateral sanctions on Iran’s civilian economic sectors, including U.S. secondary sanctions (sanctions on foreign firms that do business with Iran). On January 16, 2016, upon the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) certification that Iran had complied with the stipulated nuclear dismantlement commitments, U.S. Administration waivers of relevant sanctions laws took effect, relevant executive orders (E.O.s) were revoked, and corresponding U.N. and EU sanctions were lifted. Under U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, nonbinding U.N. restrictions on Iran’...

ANALYSIS: Iran violates UN resolutions under shadow of nuclear deal 12/19/2017 10:13:37 PM The JCPOA has been the result of political confusion over Iranian regime. By: Hamid Bahrami, Al Arabiya, 19 December 2017  - Since President Trump decertified Iran nuclear deal, famously known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on 15 October and passed it to the US Congress to decide its faith, EU leaders have lobbied Senators and Congressmen to save the agreement. In reality, the JCPOA has been the result of political confusion over Iranian regime. As a consequence, the world is now witnessing a series of pressing threats in the Middle East. The reality that Iran's malign behaviors hinge on appeasement is lost on the pro-JCPOA voices. This is a fact they cannot fathom. It is dangerously naive to ignore the strategic fact that the JCPOA rescued Iran's notorious paramilitary force, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), from being an almost b...

U.S. Leaders Praise President Trump’s New Way Forward With the recent decertifying of the Iranian regime by the U.S., thus stating that Iran is not in compliance with the JCPOA, current and former leaders throughout the country have come out in favor of the Trump administration’s action, as well as supporting the Iranian resistance, which is represented by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), led by President-elect Maryam Rajavi. During a National Press Club luncheon, former U.S. Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, praised President Trump for his change of policy, as well as condemning the actions of the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). President Trump has also designated the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). “If you’re not part of the dictatorship, and you’re not acceptable to the dictator, you can’t run, and therefore to pretend that the elections actually offer any serious choice to the Iranian people is simp...

U.S. Leaders Praise President Trump’s New Way Forward With the recent decertifying of the Iranian regime by the U.S., thus stating that Iran is not in compliance with the JCPOA, current and former leaders throughout the country have come out in favor of the Trump administration’s action, as well as supporting the Iranian resistance, which is represented by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), led by President-elect Maryam Rajavi. During a National Press Club luncheon, former U.S. Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, praised President Trump for his change of policy, as well as condemning the actions of the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). President Trump has also designated the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). “If you’re not part of the dictatorship, and you’re not acceptable to the dictator, you can’t run, and therefore to pretend that the elections actually offer any serious choice to the Iranian people is simp...

The Iranian Resistance Welcomes the New US Iran Strategy London, 28 Oct - On October 13th, President Trump announced the new US strategy towards Iran. The reaction to this strategy have been varied. Those who advocate the for continuing the JCPOA condemned it, claiming it will cause a loss of trust in America. Others believe the new strategy will serve both the interests of the US as well as the Iranian people. Trump cited some of Iran’s activities over the past 38 years in his  speech , “Beginning in 1979, agents of the Iranian regime illegally seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held more than 60 Americans hostage during the 444 days of the crisis. The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah twice bombed our embassy in Lebanon – once in 1983 and again in 1984. Another Iranian-supported bombing killed 241 Americans – service members they were, in their barracks in Beirut in 1983. In 1996, the regime directed another bombing of American military housing in Saudi Arabia...

The U.S. Has Window of Opportunity to Strengthen Iran Deal, Leverage Partners to Address Totality of Iranian Threats 10/27/2017 12:07:11 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print U.S. Congress By ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN Sunshine State News, October 25, 2017  - U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the U.S. House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, weighed in on the Trump administration’s handling of the nuclear deal with Iran at a subcommittee hearing on “The President’s Iran Decision: Next Steps' on Wednesday.  Ros-Lehtinen said the following: Less than two weeks ago, President Trump announced that he would not certify the Iran deal under the requirements of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA). All signs leading up to the certification deadline pointed to decertification. In a speech on U.S. policy toward Iran last month, Ambassador Haley laid out the pillars to be considered when determining Iranian compl...

Congress can get tough on Iran and still preserve nuclear deal: Former IAEA official 10/24/2017 4:56:02 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Nuclear expert Olli Heinonen will tell Congress that the two-year-old deal needs reinforcing NEW YORK, Middle East Eye, 24 October 2017  - Washington can clamp down harder on Iran’s nuclear program without ditching a 2015 deal brokered by the Obama administration, nuclear expert Olli Heinonen told Middle East Eye ahead of his congressional appearance this week. On Wednesday, Heinonen, a former deputy chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will advise lawmakers on how to handle Iran after US President Donald Trump’s decision this month to not certify Tehran’s compliance with the nuclear accord. Instead of trashing the deal, Washington can urge allies and the IAEA to more strictly monitor Iran’s nuclear work, stop it from acquiring missile technology and ensure that enforcement continues once t...