French FM in Tehran to discuss missiles, Syria 3/5/2018 7:49:53 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print The French Foreign Minister in Tehran amid rising global tensions Iran’s role in the seven-year-long war in Syria. Orient Net, 5  March 20  18 -- The French Foreign Minister has arrived in Tehran amid rising global tensions over the future of the 2015 nuclear deal and Iran’s role in the seven-year-long war in Syria. Jean-Yves Le Drian’s visit was originally scheduled for January, but it was delayed after mass protests broke out in many Iranian cities. An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that during his two-day visit, Le Drian was due to meet with President Hassan Rohani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss 'bilateral, regional, and international issues,' including the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers under which Tehran has significantly limited its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctio...

100 Iranian officials are green card holders, dual nationals – MP 1/18/2018 11:46:55 AM Iran does not recognize dual citizenship Baghdad Post, January 17, 2018  - A member of the Iranian parliament’s research arm has disclosed that 100 of Iran’s top officials are US permanent residency (green card) holders. In an interview with Tasnim news agency, run by the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), a conservative MP, Hossein-Ali Haji-Deligani said on Tuesday that a research concerning senior officials, who are green card holders, was delivered to the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission last Monday. Iran ratified a motion last November, paving the way for investigating the cases of top Iranian officials who have dual citizenship or carry US green card. “The 33-page report, with forty pages of documents and appendices, show that one hundred of the senior officials of the country have either dual nationality or carry US green cards,...

Iran is holding the world hostage with its human rights violations 12/21/2017 9:51:21 PM Iran human rights violation has taken the world hostage by Amir Basiri The W Amir Basiri ashington Examiner, Dec. 21, 2017   - Last week, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tacitly threatened that Tehran would resume its nuclear program if European states doubled down on its ballistic missile program and terrorist ventures. (Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Pool Photo via AP) As the Trump administration tries to rally the world to face off with the Iranian regime on the multitude of threats it poses to world peace and security, Tehran is using every tool at its disposal to prevent a unified global front from taking shape. Last week, Iran’s foreign minister tacitly threatened that Tehran would resume its nuclear program if European states doubled down on its ballistic missile program and terrorist ventures. This week, the regime tried a different tactic. In a...

Iran is taking advantage of Europe's leniency Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif cautioned in the New York Times: "As the nuclear deal and the Middle East enter uncharted and potentially combustible territory, it is imperative that Europe helps ensure that we don't soon find ourselves repeating history." However, if there's any lesson to take away from past history, it's that concessions and leniency will only render the Iranian regime more brutal and bolder in the pursuit of its destructive goals. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) In  an op-ed  published in the New York Times, Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif warned European countries against doubling down against Tehran’s ballistic missile program and terrorist forays in the Middle East. While upending the truth about his regime’s nefarious agendas and blaming the U.S. for problems that his own regime has caused, Zarif cautioned, “As the nuclear deal and the Middle East enter uncharted and p...

Iran supplied ballistic missile to Yemen rebels: US 12/15/2017 9:03:39 AM   facebook Google+ ► Print Nikki Haley says a ballistic missile fired by Huthi militants at Saudi Arabia last month had been made in Iran AFP, DEC. 14, 2017 -- US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley presented what she called 'undeniable' evidence Thursday that a ballistic missile fired by Huthi rebels in Yemen at Saudi Arabia last month was Iranian-made. Haley accused Tehran of a 'blatant violation' of UN Security Council obligations designed to rein in its missile activity, further stepping up the rhetoric towards Iran which Washington accuses of going against the spirit of a historic nuclear accord. Standing in a warehouse at a Washington military base in front of recovered pieces of two missiles, Haley said Iranian fingerprints were all over the weapons, one of which she said was fired at Riyadh's airport on November 4. 'It was made ...

Why Obama put Bin Laden’s documents linking Iran, Qatar under lock and key 11/11/2017 2:22:30 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Barack Obama- Osama Bin Laden Al Arabiya, 11 November 2017  - Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that days after the release of Osama bin Laden's documents out of his residence in Abbottabad in Pakistan, it became obvious why US President Barack Obama didn’t publish those documents which links Al-Qaida with Iran and Qatar. In an article published on The Washington Times on Wednesday, May said senior experts at the Defense for Democracies and other centers opposed the government's decision not to publish Bin Laden's documents over the years, and wanted all documents to be available to researchers, journalists, policymakers and public opinion. According to May, Bin Laden in his memoirs praised Qatari media at the time, in addition to his emphasis on the impact of the Muslim...

Don't let Iran take international policy hostage On Friday, US President Donald Trump  decertified  [VIDEO] the  Iran nuclear deal , citing Iran's violation of the 'spirit' of the deal, thereby initiating the process by which Congress can vote to re-impose suspended sanctions within 60 days.  #The President  supplemented the decertification with outlining a broad new strategy toward the Iranian regime, targeting not only its nuclear ambitions but also its regional threats, “particularly its support for terrorism and militants.” He announced the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ) as a terrorist entity. Spirit of the deal Many defenders of the  JCPOA  reject  Trump’s  references to the deal’s spirit. But this position ignores the fact that there were indeed broader intentions behind the  nuclear agreement  – intentions that the president is required to consider when reporting t...