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By Carlo Muñoz Iraqi Vice President  Osama al-Nujaifi , the top government official representing the country’s Sunni minority, on Tuesday denied claims that  Baghdad  is pressing the Trump administration to directly arm and train the country’s Sunni militias to counter the growing influence of Iranian-backed Shia paramilitaries.Speaking to reporters after a speech at the  Washington -based U.S. Institute for Peace,   Osama al-Nujaifi  said he had not come to lobby the U.S. government for military support on behalf of  Iraq ’s Sunni armed groups. But he also said in his address that the growing firepower of Iranian-backed Shiite militias looms as the nation’s most pressing future security threat now that Islamic State has been pushed out of Mosul, Tal Afar and other cities it held in the north. The Iranian-backed forces “have gained a lot of power, and maybe they can pose more problems,”  Mr. al-Nujaifi  said. In meetings...

NCRI - Two days after Iran’s state-owned Kayhan newspaper (affiliated to Khamenei) wrote a threatening editorial titled “Firing Ansarullah’s missile at Riyadh, the next target is Dubai," the political office of pro-Iran regime Houthis echoed the threat and threatened in a statement on Tuesday November 7 that “All airports, ports, border crossings and important areas of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will be the direct target of our weapons.” The statement emphasized that Saudi Arabia and the UAE "must be sure that our weapons are capable of targeting them.” Houthi militants’ spokesman, Mohammad Abdul Salam, also threatened to target international shipping in the Red Sea on his Twitter account. Saudi Arabia closed its airspace, and sea and land borders with Yemen on Monday, November 6, and called the missile attack on Riyadh during the weekend an act of war and warned the Iranian regime. Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the crown prince, also the vice chairman...

By Heshmat Alavi Iran’s relations with al-Qaeda is under the spotlight following the CIA’s release of nearly half a million documents obtained during a 2011 raid that killed the extremist group’s leader Osama Bin Laden.How Iran at least facilitated the efforts leading to the 9/11 attacks has been discussed extensively.For decades US authorities have argued Iran-al-Qaeda ties date back to 1991, referred to in a 19-page report amongst the trove. “Anyone who wants to strike America, Iran is ready to support him and help him with their frank and clear rhetoric,” the report reads. REVEALED: Bin Laden daughter’s letter addressed to Khamenei The US government’s 9/11 Commission explained how Iranian officials met with al-Qaeda leaders in Sudan as early as 1991 or 1992. This led to the Lebanese Hezbollah, an offspring of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to begin training al-Qaeda militants in Lebanon, the commission said. IRGC training camps inside Iran have also been expos...

  By Amir Basiri In October, Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime’s president, reiterated that Tehran will continue to develop ballistic missiles, defying the latest round of Congress-approved sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile program and a U.N. resolution calling on Iran “not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.” This bit of news might come as a disappointment to those who view Rouhani as the “moderate” leader the U.S. and the international community should back against “hardliners” in Iran. But it won’t surprise those who know the true nature that governs all the factions that compete within the theocratic regime ruling Iran. Multiple people killed when truck drives down New York City bike path Watch Full Screen Rouhani made deceptive claims and promises before May's presidential elections to strengthen his bid and portray himself as being at odds with the Revolutionary Guards....

Iran Focus London, 2 Nov - The Iranian Regime is now using fake news to discredit a female activist and the popular people’s resistance as a whole in order to pit the people against each other and divide an activist family. Mere days after Donald Trump delivered his speech on the Iran deal and the oppression faced by the Iranian people, the Regime’s press published a false story about lifelong activist, Somayeh Mohammadi, defecting from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK). Mohammadi, who now resides in Tirana, Albania, with many other MEK activists who fled persecution at the hands of Iranian proxies in Iraq, has not defected. She left Canada for Iraq years ago in order to help the MEK achieve freedom for Iran at the suggestion of her father (then a MEK activist); that’s not the sort of thing one turns their back on. Mohammadi  said : “I was shocked to hear this fake report of me defecting from the MEK in Iran’s press and state TV stations. How c...

Prepared By : Ali Reza - Edited By : Ali Reza Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been supporting Bashar Al Assad since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution in 2011. The Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad has on several occasions expressed his gratitude to the supreme leader of Iran thanking him for saving his dictatorship government. The National Council of Resistance of Iran announced in February 2016 that Iran deploys 60,000 IRGC forces and foreign mercenaries in Syria. On October 1 st  2017  Human Rights Watch issued a statement  confirming that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has recruited Afghan immigrant children living in Iran to fight in Syria, asking them to immediately end the recruitment of child soldiers and bring back any Afghan children it has sent to fight in Syria. On Friday October 13 th  2017, The US Treasury Department  blacklisted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps  (IRGC) ...