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Tehran in Meltdown as Israel Decapitates Hamas and Hezbollah

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  By Struan Stevenson Conflagration engulfs the Middle East, with the Israel-Hamas war having gone on for more than a year now, and many Israeli hostages are still being held in deplorable conditions by Hamas terrorists. In Northern Israel, constant missile and rocket attacks by Hezbollah led to the mass evacuation of more than 70,000 Israelis from their homes in 2024 and to the inevitable military retaliation by the Israel Defense Forces, as they crossed the border into Southern Lebanon. Israeli missiles are raining down on key Hezbollah targets in Beirut. The assassination of Hezbollah’s terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a seismic event, shattered his close friend and ally Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader and Hezbollah’s main sponsor. Nasrallah’s successor, Hashem Saffieddine, was also killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut within hours of being nominated for the Hezbollah leadership role and before the funeral of his predecessor had even taken place. Es...
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West must widen focus on Tehran’s malign activities

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  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh The international community must take a multifaceted approach to Iran. The regime’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons remains at the forefront of policy discussions regarding Tehran. This is understandable, of course, but the severity of this threat is no justification for overlooking any of the regime’s other malign activities. The potential perils of single-mindedness have been highlighted in recent weeks by incidents including attacks on US assets in Iraq and Syria, which were evidently carried out by the Iranian regime’s regional proxies and timed to coincide with the second anniversary of a US strike that eliminated the regime’s top operative, Qassem Soleimani. Another example of the proxy threat came on Jan. 17, when a drone attack penetrated the territory of the UAE and struck civilian areas of the nation’s capital, Abu Dhabi. The drones in question were likely of Iranian origin because the regime has been caught smuggling advanced weaponry to the Hou...
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Iran: Regime Broadcasting Organization’s monitoring system showed 25 TV channels on Intelsat and Badr satellites as disrupted

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By  PMOI MEK Hundreds of national radio channels, provincial and local TV stations were critically disrupted and their audio, video, or transmission was cut off Control sheets show more than 2,000 “critical” warnings on regime radio and TV stations The “comprehensive monitoring” system for the “Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)” clearly shows that as of Thursday afternoon, January 27, 2022, the uplink feed from 25 national television channels on Intelsat and 20 national television channels on Badr satellites were completely shut off. Hundreds of national radio stations, provincial and local city television stations were also on “critical alert” status and on the verge of shutting down. It is well known that the IRIB is one of the most heavily budgeted and highly sensitive organizations for the clerical regime, and the regime utilizes this organization alongside the IRGC, the intelligence services, and the State Security Force for suppression and censorship. The organizat...
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Iran: Regime’s escalating concerns over recent TV/radio broadcasting disruptions

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  By Farid Mahoutchi Iranian regime officials and state media are still furious about the recent  disruption of 27 state television and radio networks  that resulted in the broadcasting of Iranian opposition leaders’ footage and over 400 servers being destroyed. Even 24 hours after the ordeal many state TV stations were still unable to broadcast subtitles and announce their programs prior to their airing. “This measure by the [Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK )] in disrupting state TV broadcasting will not go unanswered. We need to deliver a firm respond response to the [ PMOI/MEK ],” said Alireza Salimi, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament). The official PMOI/MEK website has thus far been the target of five DDOS attacks with more than 12.6 million requests per second in the latest wave. This attack was launched at 7:25 pm Central European Time on Friday, January 29, and was nearly six times more powerful than the previous atta...
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Khamenei’s deadlock provides opportunity in Iran talks

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 By Aladdin Touran As the row over Iran’s controversial nuclear program continues, and ten months and eight rounds of Iran talks in Vienna have rendered next to nothing, recent remarks made by Iranian regime Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei  have infused more contradictions into this already complex predicament. The current stalemate is driving rifts into Khamenei’s own faction. Some voices are welcoming direct negotiations with the U.S., while others are dismissing such a shift in tone as “treason.” This internal standoff, which demonstrates the weak and desperate state of Tehran’s regime, which has thus far gone unnoticed in mainstream media, provides an opportunity for the West. In contrast to the appeasement policy currently being pursued, the U.S. and European governments should realize the calamities facing Iran’s regime and raise their demands. Not only should the regime’s nuclear program be constrained, but significant measures need to be taken to end their dangerous ...
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Tehran’s Strategy in Yemen Starting To Fail

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  Written by Mehdi Oghbai On January 5, at a meeting in Tehran, allegedly called the National Conference on Iran and Neighbors, the Iranian regime’s foreign minister, Hossein  Amir-Abdollahian uttered  something that would have been unthinkable just four weeks ago: “We are concerned about the escalation of the war [in Yemen] and we call on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to take a political and constructive approach by ending the siege and the war and start engaging in the Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue.” “The continuation of this situation is not in the interest of the region, and it has not been and will not be in the interest of anyone and the countries involved in this crisis,” Amir-Abdollahian added. While some analysts might want to interpret this as Tehran’s conciliatory gesture, those who have a profound understanding of the regime’s language and the regional balance of power, know perfectly well how Tehran has become so desperate. For the past two months, the H...
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Biden administration must be firm with Iran-backed Houthis

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  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh US President Joe Biden said last week that he is considering redesignating the Iranian-backed Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization. Without a doubt, the Houthis’ activities and policies make it imperative that the group is returned to the terrorist watch list. This is a Yemeni militia that commits crimes against humanity and recruits children for war. The Houthis also use landmines to control and kill civilians. Human Rights Watch’s “World Report 2020” stated that “Houthi-planted landmines across Yemen continue to harm civilians and their livelihoods. Houthi forces have been using anti-personnel mines, improvised explosive devices, and anti-vehicle mines along the western coast of Yemen, resulting in hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries… Landmine use has been documented in six governorates in Yemen since 2015. Since January 2018, at least 140 civilians, including 19 children, have been killed by landmines in just the Hodeidah and Taiz governorate...
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Iran's Danger Drones

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  By Struan Stevenson A drone attack on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week, which killed three people and injured six others working at an oil storage facility near the airport in Abu Dhabi, led to an immediate retaliation by Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the UAE. The Saudis blamed the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen for the drone strike and hit back with a heavy air raid on Sanaa, the rebel-held Yemen capital city. The drone attack has simply been the latest in a series of similar raids across the Middle East that all have their origins in Iran. Despite lurching from crisis to crisis as their economy crumbles, the theocratic regime ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran has invested heavily in military drone production. As a primary tool of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ extra-territorial Quds Force, drones have now assumed a key role in the mullahs’ aggressive expansionist policy of terrorist attacks and proxy wars in the Middle East.The regime is spending billions...
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Iran regime admits its humiliating defeat

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  By   Farid Mahoutchi Following persecution in the first two years after the theocracy came to power after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, members of the regime’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ) left Iran for France in 1981 and five years relocated to Iraq to set up a camp across the Iranian frontier.  Camp Ashraf , located in Iraq’s Diyala province, grew from a barren piece of land to a modern mini city over the next two decades. In 2003, the MEK and Camp Ashraf fell under the protection of the United States Army, following the US-led invasion of Iraq, which lasted until the end of 2008. On January 1, 2009, under the new US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, the US government passed the protection of the camp over to the Iraqi government, a decision that violated its written commitment to protect them until their final disposition and had disastrous consequences. Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s then-Prime Minister, was an Iranian re...
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