TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday confirmed that a damaged building at the underground Natanz nuclear site was a new centrifuge assembly center, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iranian officials had previously sought to downplay the fire,...
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In late June there were three major “accidents” – or possibly cyberattacks – in Iran within the space of a week. The first, on June 25, was a huge explosion that could be seen miles away in in Tehran. Iranian authorities described this as a...
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Matthew Petti
Security, Middle East
Israeli and U.S. officials have denied any responsibility.
An Iranian general would not rule out that a massive explosion east of Tehran last week was caused by “hacking,” amidst speculation that the...
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Peter Suciu
Security, Middle East
A silly attempt to have a target to practice on.
Key Point: Aircraft carriers look a certain way. And yet Tehran messed up its latest faux model.
Currently, a dozen nations around the world have aircraft carriers...
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A powerful explosion at a clinic in northern Tehran killed at least 19 people on Tuesday, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported.The blast at Sina At'har health center caused damage to buildings in the vicinity and sent a plume of thick...
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13 Dead After Mysterious Explosion In Northern Tehran
Tyler Durden
Tue, 06/30/2020 - 15:14
Update (1520ET): New details on the explosion have just landed. Per Sputnik News, which cited Iranian media reports, an explosion and a...
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mehr News Service reports that Tehran prosecutor Ali al-Qasi Mehr issued an arrest notice with Interpol on Monday for President Donald Trump and 35 other American officials. The request was for Interpol to...
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Satellite photographs show the explosion happened at a missile production facility. Iran said the episode was a gas explosion at a different military base.
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Warfare History Network
History, Middle East
The assassination was scheduled to take place in Tehran, the capital of Iran, after the three Allied leaders announced plans to meet there to hammer out the final strategy for the war against Nazi...
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In recent years, the countries have traded tit-for-tat movements seizing each other's boats. In 2017, Tehran seized a Saudi fishing boat and arrested some fishermen. A year later, Riyadh arrested several Iranian fishermen, which Iran claimed had...
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Sebastien Roblin
Security, Middle East
Is this a real threat?
Key Point: Tehran is more than willing to use its ballistic missiles, both those on home soil and deployed to Syria.
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On Thursday, Iran’s Navy reported the successful testing of a new land-to-sea and sea-to-sea cruise missile in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean.
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Venezuela on Sunday demanded the release of a government-connected businessman who was detained in Cape Verde on US corruption charges.
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History, Middle East
They negotiated how to win and what would come next.
World War II made a disparate trio of allies —British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Marshal Joseph Stalin, and American President...
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Iran’s parliament has elected Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former mayor of Tehran who is tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as its speaker, “solidifying hardline control of the body as tensions between the US and the Islamic...
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Ali Motaghian, the chief of Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency, has been convicted over the publishing of an article quoting a former Iranian diplomat who criticized Tehran's "arbitrary" intelligence...
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The July 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), prompted many optimists to assume that Tehran would abandon its expansionist, Islamist drive and join the community of nations. But the Obama
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Previously, US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook underscored that Washington’s policy of maximum economic pressure on Iran would prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, leaving the country with a choice of either coming to the...
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Joe Biden left his basement to remind us he doesn’t support Medicare for All, student debt relief or a fracking ban. Are you inspired yet?
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Venezuela is strengthening its alliance with Iran. “The first of five ships laden with Iranian petrol crossed in to Venezuelan waters on Sunday in defiance of US sanctions, after Tehran and Caracas warned Washington over any attempt to...
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