• Was Iran's Prime Minister Mossadegh, who came by his position democratically, a communist because he nationalized Anglo-Persian, now Anglo-Iranian, because Britain refused to agree to fair terms with Iran? (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Who are Iran's allies in a potential conflict with the United States? (abc.net.au)
  • Who are Iran's allies? (abc.net.au)
  • While Iran's Shia allies give them a wide reach regionally and a platform from which they could launch revenge attacks on US assets and pressure a withdrawal from Iraq through small-scale attacks, they lack strong alliances elsewhere. (abc.net.au)
  • Iran's main ally, Syria, trained 200 Somali fighters in guerrilla warfare. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • As India announces it will cut oil imports from Iran, oil exports (80% of Iran's total exports) are being squeezed from almost all sides. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Iran's long term ally in Syria is running out of time and money. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The recent appointment of Ziad al-Nakhleh, a PIJ leader who coordinates his activities closely with the Iranians, as secretary-general of the organization, means Gaza's second largest armed group will continue to serve Iran's interests for the foreseeable future. (investigativeproject.org)
  • However, beyond such Islamist aspirations, it is Iran's own war with Iraq that continues to condition Ahmadinejad and his allies' strategic assumptions. (cfr.org)
  • While the deal was not perfect and Iran still poses challenges outside of its scope, the JCPOA successfully froze Iran's nuclear program while putting in place a strong inspection system to spot any cheating. (thirdway.org)
  • The Iran deal was not perfect but it was successful in freezing Iran's nuclear program and provided the foundation to address the country's other malign activities. (thirdway.org)
  • 4 He argued it gives Iran too much economic relief, doesn't last long enough, and fails to address Iran's other problematic behavior in the region (e.g., supporting terrorists groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas or developing ballistic missiles). (thirdway.org)
  • It requires Iran to sign onto an agreement that would allow UN inspectors to indefinitely monitor and verify that Iran's nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. (thirdway.org)
  • However, the Iran deal was only designed to constrain Iran's nuclear program and was intended to serve as a foundation to address Iran's other dangerous behaviors and actions such as its ballistic missile program. (thirdway.org)
  • It's also worth noting that US has also used cyberattacks against Iran -- most notably the Stuxnet virus, which was designed to damage equipment used in Iran's nuclear programme, back in 2007. (zdnet.com)
  • WASHINGTON - The US Senate unanimously approved tougher sanctions against Iran on Thursday, voting to penalize foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran's central bank, the main conduit for its oil revenues. (jpost.com)
  • Administration officials said they were indeed looking to sanction Iran's central bank, but in a calibrated manner, to avoid roiling oil markets or antagonizing allies. (jpost.com)
  • Iran's biggest fundamental problem is that a majority of its allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen are primarily military and terrorist actors. (swp-berlin.org)
  • The best option for German and European policymakers is a strategy of containment so as to put an end to Iran's expansion in the four countries mentioned above, but also to acknowledge in the short term that Tehran and its allies are in a position of strength. (swp-berlin.org)
  • In the early 1980s, Iran became the principal supporter of Hezbollah, soon known for inflicting terror on western targets, with a bullseye on Israel. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Shia militia groups loyal to Iran, including Kataib Hezbollah, whose leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed alongside General Soleimani, make up a significant part of Iraq's military. (abc.net.au)
  • Hezbollah has many supporters in Iran. (abc.net.au)
  • Hezbollah has fought alongside Iran in Syria to support their mutual ally, the Assad Government . (abc.net.au)
  • Hamas officials have called for more regional assistance from allies, including Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. (wboy.com)
  • It runs as well through Obama's treatment of Israel and its actions to defend itself against its jihadist enemies from Hamas to Hezbollah to Iran. (frontpagemag.com)
  • First Group: Nusayri Assad Forces, Jafari Iran - Hezbollah Forces and Orthodox Russia. (veteranstoday.com)
  • Iran has long been a dangerous state-sponsor of terrorism and its support for groups including Hamas and Hezbollah has led to the deaths of hundreds of Americans. (thirdway.org)
  • This includes adding Lebanese Hezbollah, the Hezbollah Battalions, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haqq and other militias loyal to Iran, including their leaders, to all relevant terrorism lists. (swp-berlin.org)
  • To this end, it equipped its ally Hezbollah with more, and more accurate, missiles. (swp-berlin.org)
  • Hezbollah, together with Syria, form the core of the coalition bloc led by Iran. (lu.se)
  • Iran and Russia have been military allies in conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and also share an economic partnership. (abc.net.au)
  • Officials in Ukraine discuss human trafficking at a conference in April (OSCE) June 13, 2007 -- The U.S. State Department says Uzbekistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Syria, and North Korea are among countries that are failing to do enough to combat human trafficking, or the sale of people -- mainly women and children -- across international borders for forced prostitution and labor. (rferl.org)
  • The semi-independent Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which might have been a beacon to the 25 million Kurds in Turkey, Iran and Syria, will see its powers squeezed by the government in Baghdad. (independent.co.uk)
  • It also underlines the close ties which Somalia's Islamists, who style themselves the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts, have forged with radical regimes across the Muslim world, notably Syria and Iran. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Helped by Russia's air force and Iran-backed militias, Assad clawed back the bulk of Syria in years of conflict, deploying siege warfare to recover areas such as eastern Ghouta - a tactic condemned as "medieval" by U.N. investigators. (freebeacon.com)
  • Now that the struggle for Syria is all but over, Yemen has become the focal point for the tussle for power and influence between Saudi Arabia and Iran-the two major powers competing for primacy in the Persian Gulf and the broader Middle East. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The Saudis, having lost in Syria, are doubling their effort to deny what they perceive could be another victory for Iran in Yemen next door. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The civil war in Syria became intertwined with regional and international rivalries between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the one hand and Russia and the United States on the other. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Iran will likely seek to compensate any loss of influence in Syria through attempts at digging in even more firmly in Iraq. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The Iranian Revolutionary Guards are on the US terror list, but are Russia's allies in Syria. (veteranstoday.com)
  • The PKK Terrorist Organization is actived under the name of PJAK in Iran and under the name of YPG in Syria. (veteranstoday.com)
  • It is now an ally of the US in Syria. (veteranstoday.com)
  • The attack was something both Iran and the PIJ leadership at its Damascus, Syria, headquarters wanted, Israeli officials said. (investigativeproject.org)
  • Whether it is Hizballah in Lebanon and Syria, the Houthis in Yemen, or an assortment of Shi'ite militias in Iraq and Syria, Iran has a range of options at its disposal if it chooses to engage in regional pyromania. (investigativeproject.org)
  • What does this mean for Turkey and the rest of the Middle East, particularly countries that have large Kurdish populations including Iraq, Syria, and Iran? (hudson.org)
  • U.S. Rep. French Hill of Arkansas, one of the three lawmakers, told The Associated Press by telephone after leaving Syria that the trip was the latest of his several to the region this summer to press the U.S. government and Arab allies to continue pushing for a political resolution to the war. (wqln.org)
  • In Iraq, militias loyal to Iran and led by the Quds Corps secured the "land bridge" over which personnel, equipment and arms were transported from Iran towards southern Syria and Lebanon. (swp-berlin.org)
  • In the war against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist movement in Syria, the YPG has been an ally of the West, effectively acting as NATO boots on the ground. (lu.se)
  • Iraq , whose government has been dominated by Shia Muslims since the fall of Saddam Hussein, has held close diplomatic and military ties with both Iran and the US but recent attacks on Iraqi soil - viewed as a 'violation of Iraq's sovereignty' - have damaged US-Iraqi relations. (abc.net.au)
  • Put briefly, the central government of Iraq is back in business as a power to a degree not seen since 1991 when Saddam Hussein was calamitously defeated by the US and its allies after he invaded Kuwait. (independent.co.uk)
  • The Sunni Arab nightmare is that a Shia run Iraq would ally with Shia Iran to take over the Middle East. (strategypage.com)
  • Isis and its Sunni Muslim allies seized large parts of Iraq this month. (yalibnan.com)
  • Iraq has been receiving support from Iran, with whom its Shia Muslim leaders have close links. (yalibnan.com)
  • That goes for Iran, too, which is deeply concerned about the sudden upheavals in Iraq. (yalibnan.com)
  • In March, Iran Khodro, the country's largest car manufacturer announced it would make 30,000 cars in an undisclosed production site in Iraq. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Considering this, and the recent Stratfor report which suggests pro-Iranian groups are smuggling $20 million dollars' worth of Iraqi oil into Iran every day, do you think that sanctions and the collapse of Assad is forcing Iran to stretch its tentacles further into Iraq? (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Iran uses its energy clout in Iraq to ensure that Iraqi government authorities, including al-Maliki, get a hefty share of monthly revenues from the oil theft -- amounting to millions of dollars -- giving Baghdad less inclination to protest Iranian interference in Iraqi affairs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • I would also question that Iran has "energy clout" in Iraq. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The NY Times ran this story on Saturday, today there's a mysterious US press briefing announcing that they had discovered that weapons imported from Iran to Iraq are killing American soldiers. (scripting.com)
  • I don't have the slightest doubt that the American taxpayer is the largest single source of support for people killing Americans in Iraq. (scripting.com)
  • Our supposed allies in Iraq are actually Sunni or Shi'ite militia. (scripting.com)
  • Tensions between the United States and Iran are raised after the killing of Iranian IRGC-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani via a US drone strike while he was in Iraq. (zdnet.com)
  • In Iraq, Iranian military advisors and Iran-controlled local militias helped in the fight against Islamic State (IS). (swp-berlin.org)
  • Furthermore, since the 2003 US invasion and subsequent occupation and destruction of Iraq, Middle East politics has been marked by a new cold war1 over regional influence between two competing axes led by Saudi Arabia on one side and Iran on the other. (lu.se)
  • It has also been used recently in the Iran-Iraq War in 1984-1988 and by Iraq against its Kurdish minority in Halabjah in 1988 (Black et al. (cdc.gov)
  • [2] Adjoining Bagram was the country's largest prison which housed thousands of Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS-K prisoners who have been unleashed to kill more innocents. (frontpagemag.com)
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's bid for unrivaled executive power was rejected by Turkey's voters, demonstrating the growing political power of the country's largest minority group, the Kurds. (hudson.org)
  • The superpower United States, contrary to Iranian propaganda, posed no risk of acquiring Iran. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his country's relations with Iran at a meeting in Moscow on December 7 with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. (rferl.org)
  • But the Iranian tradition that terrifies Sunni Arabs the most is the fact that for over three thousand years, Iran has dominated the region. (strategypage.com)
  • BEIRUT (Reuters)-President Bashar al- Assad has always seen time as an ally in the Syrian civil war, along with the Iranian and Russian firepower that helped him defeat his enemies, according to sources familiar with his thinking. (freebeacon.com)
  • There are reports that Iran has been heavily shelling border areas in the Kurdish mountains, where an Iranian Kurdish opposition group called Pejak has bases. (yalibnan.com)
  • Iran Khodro are subsidiaries of the Iranian Development and Renovation Organization ("IDRO"), an entity blacklisted by the U.S., UK and EU for its activities in a wide range of nuclear and military activities. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Iran is however unique in also seeking influence in Iraq's Shiite holy cities, particularly through the tentative moves to build support for Ayatollah Shahrudi, a long time servant of the Iranian revolution, as the successor of the current grand ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The PKK Terrorist Organization became the closest ally of the United States because it fought against the Iranian regime in Iran. (veteranstoday.com)
  • But that calm could be shattered if Iran decides to activate its proxy, a possibility that Iranian officials have suggested they might as they unleash a torrent of threats in the shadow of new U.S. sanctions. (investigativeproject.org)
  • As with many in the theocratic regime, Ahmadinejad and his allies perceive that a nuclear weapons capability is critical for the consolidation of Iranian hegemony in the Gulf. (cfr.org)
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Spokesman Nasser Kanaani was quoted by the state news agency IRNA on Monday as saying "Iran has repeatedly declared that it is not a party in the war between Russia and Ukraine and has not sent any weapons to either side. (cnn.com)
  • Iran has long been seen as one of the four countries that pose the greatest online threats to the US, along with China, Russia and North Korea, and there has been a long history of Iranian cyber intrusions against the US. (zdnet.com)
  • The Obama administration strongly supports increasing the pressure on Iran, and that includes properly designed and targeted sanctions against the central bank of Iran, appropriately timed as part of a carefully phased and sustainable policy toward bringing about Iranian compliance with its obligations," US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier on Thursday, several hours before the Senate vote. (jpost.com)
  • Because of its historical experiences of colonial domination, including the subordinate relationship of the Shah's regime with Washington, the Islamic revolution of 1979 constituted Iran as an anti-hegemonic state and defined the United States as the external "other' and the largest source of existential threat to the post-revolutionary Iranian government. (fpif.org)
  • In Yemen, Tehran's allies, the Houthis, have been attacking Saudi-Arabian targets with Iranian rockets, cruise missiles and drones since 2017. (swp-berlin.org)
  • The Wall Street Journal reported in March 2023 that Iran agreed to halt all military support to Houthis and abide by the UN arms embargo, as part of a Chinese-brokered Iran-Saudi rapprochement deal. (wikipedia.org)
  • The State of Israel expresses its sorrow to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the face of the difficult attack led by the Houthis, who are supported by Iran,' said Bennett. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • The Iran-backed Houthis and their allies took over large parts of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, in 2015. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • It has long been believed that Iran is planning to use the Houthis to take over Yemen and seize the key strategic port of Aden, which controls the entrance to the Red Sea and ultimately to the Israeli resort city of Eilat. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Iran denies it is backing the Houthis and has also denied Saudi Arabian accusations that Tehran provided the Houthi rebels in Yemen with ballistic capabilities. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • The war launched by the Saudi and Emirati forces and their Yemeni allies against the Houthis, Zaidi Shias now in control of the capital Sanaa and broad swathes of northern Yemen, can, therefore, be expected to escalate and may even lead to direct confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The same applies to Saudi Arabia's policy today when it opposes the Houthis, the modern political incarnation of the Zaidi imamate that it supported not so long ago, because of their supposed association with the Saudis' latest nemesis Iran. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Iran, a nation where 90% of Muslims are Shia, probably wished they could do something similar to the giant Sunni Ottoman Empire. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The supreme leader, Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei, is not just the leader of Iran but, as a Shia Marja or Ayatollah, he is also a religious figurehead for millions of Shia Muslims across the globe. (abc.net.au)
  • Regionally, Iran have provided political and military support to Shia governments and militia groups , who have in turn pledged their support to Iran. (abc.net.au)
  • It's easy for outsiders to underestimate how much of a threat Sunni Arabs feel that Shia Iran is. (strategypage.com)
  • For the last quarter century, Iran has been run by radical Shia clerics. (strategypage.com)
  • And he does not have the experience in running a large and complex organization that would make him an effective secretary of defense. (rjchq.org)
  • Finally, the largest terrorist organization in the Middle East is the PKK. (veteranstoday.com)
  • The PKK Terror Organization was the closest ally of Russia and the Essed regime during its establishment period. (veteranstoday.com)
  • The PKK Terror Organization is also considered a terrorist by the United States, but is a friend and ally of the US in the Syrian war. (veteranstoday.com)
  • The rocket attack, which targeted southern Israeli villages at the end of October, sent civilians fleeing for cover, and was conducted by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest armed organization in Gaza. (investigativeproject.org)
  • Iran is the second-largest Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) producer, exporting up to 2.5 million barrels of oil a day. (sacsis.org.za)
  • Turkey's shifting demographics-rising Kurdish birth rates and lower Turkish birth rates-suggest that this key NATO ally is undergoing a fundamental transformation. (hudson.org)
  • Turkey is also demanding that Sweden, in particular, deport and stop accepting people who Turkey says could be considered terrorists, which has caused growing concern among Sweden's large Kurdish diaspora. (lu.se)
  • In the first Cold War-related conflict, the Iran Crisis (1946), the United States took the lead with the UN to compel the Soviets to abandon their occupation of Iran. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • We look at what a further conflict between the US and Iran could look like, which of their respective allies may or may not get involved, and why escalation into a World War III scenario is unlikely. (abc.net.au)
  • How likely is a US-Iran conflict? (abc.net.au)
  • It also illuminates much larger problems: the unpredictability of proxy wars, the danger of unintended consequences, the ways in which conflict can favor extremists, and the scale of how difficult it will be to eliminate all of the factors that have led to ISIS. (vox.com)
  • Drones have played a significant role in the conflict since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, but their use has increased since Moscow acquired the new drones from Iran over the summer. (cnn.com)
  • The Iran nuclear deal is 'putting billions of dollars back into a country that's the world's largest supporter of terrorism. (politifact.com)
  • The Iraqi and Syrian governments played a major role, but so did the United States, Iran, and Gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia. (vox.com)
  • RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said, "Sadly, we continue to believe that the choice of Chuck Hagel for this post sends the wrong message to the American people, our allies, and our adversaries. (rjchq.org)
  • By extension, many U.S. allies and client states in the region became rivals or adversaries to the post-revolutionary government. (fpif.org)
  • Skeptics often dismiss the possibility of strategic alignment between Saudi Arabia and Iran on essentialist and primordial grounds. (fpif.org)
  • US officials told CNN in July that Iran had begun showcasing Shahed series drones to Russia at Kashan Airfield south of Tehran the previous month. (cnn.com)
  • Washington suspects Tehran of using its civilian nuclear program to develop an atomic bomb, although Iran says its program is solely to produce electricity. (jpost.com)
  • Important US allies in the Middle East have long called for decisive action against the Islamic Republic and its "axis of resistance", as the network of armies, militias, terror groups, parties and people allied with Tehran is often called. (swp-berlin.org)
  • Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to M. Marjani: [email protected]). (who.int)
  • Demographic information (age, sex, In most communities, recurrent cases berculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), nationality and residency), smoking make up the largest proportion of previ- Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, from and drug misuse status, drug resistance ously treated patients [5]. (who.int)
  • In a "large disruption" scenario - comparable to the Arab oil embargo of 1973 - the global oil supply would shrink by 6 million to 8 million barrels per day and prices could go up by 56% to 75%, or to $140 to $157 a barrel, according to the report. (wboy.com)
  • Assad saw the war as a foreign-backed conspiracy against a proud Arab state that opposed the United States and its Middle Eastern allies, especially Israel. (freebeacon.com)
  • Being the largest and most influential Arab state in the Persian Gulf region and given its special client relationship with the United States, Saudi Arabia became a natural rival to the Islamic Republic. (fpif.org)
  • The Shiite groups supported by Russia and Iran describe all Sunni groups as terrorists. (veteranstoday.com)
  • Russia and Iran-ally President Maduro stakes claim to. (forexfactory.com)
  • Assad has held on to power despite the uprising thanks in large part to the armed intervention by allies Russia and Iran. (wqln.org)
  • Before Khomeini, Iran counted among the rare Muslim-majority nations that supported Israel's right to exist. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Our judgment is that the best course to pursue at this time is not to apply a mechanism that puts at risk the largest financial institutions, the central banks, of our closest allies," Undersecretary of the Treasury David Cohen told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (jpost.com)
  • She worked out deals with North Korea during the Clinton administration, then the Iran nuclear deal under Obama. (npr.org)
  • Torrents of spin have tried to rationalize it as the Obama administration's plan B as opposed to letting the Israeli dogs of war conduct an unilateral attack on Iran over its supposed nuclear weapons program. (sacsis.org.za)
  • Obama administration doesn't believe threatening US allies is best way to to get cooperation on Iran issue. (jpost.com)
  • The Senate acted despite warnings from Obama administration officials who said threatening US allies might not be the best way to get their cooperation in action against Iran. (jpost.com)
  • Iran also back Houthi rebels, who control western Yemen, and Palestine's Hamas . (abc.net.au)
  • The Zaidi Imamate of Yemen was established in the ninth century and Zaidi Imams off and on ruled large tracts of North Yemen. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The Iraqi Sunni Arabs are not alone, and their list of allies is large. (strategypage.com)
  • The Ukrainians themselves have been using kamikaze drones to strike against Russian targets - and asked their allies to supply them with more of these deadly weapons. (cnn.com)
  • Unlike more traditional, larger and faster military drones that return to base after dropping missiles, kamikaze drones are designed to crash into a target and explode, detonating their warhead and destroying the drones in the process. (cnn.com)
  • According to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia has ordered 2,400 Shahed-136 drones from Iran. (cnn.com)
  • Now that America has violated the deal, alienated its allies, and lost any leverage it had with Iran, there is no realistic path for addressing these longstanding issues and the US has lost any leverage it previously had by withdrawing from the JCPOA. (thirdway.org)
  • It's now clear that the regime in Iran is going through very tough times: the Supreme Leader says sanctions have had "no effect," while the country privately pushes for them to be lifted. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Iraqi / Yemenite / Iran jews (of which there are large communities all over the world) - don't really have any "European white" basis. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • A pronounced suspicion of the United States and the international community that tolerated Saddam Hussein's war crimes against Iran characterizes the perspective of those who fought in the frontlines. (cfr.org)
  • While the three nations have made attempts to lessen economic dependence on China, the prevailing conditions of an assertive and unyielding China have led the three QUAD allies to set up a joint supply chain initiative - the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative. (eurasiantimes.com)
  • China has also voiced determination to 'develop a comprehensive strategic partnership with Iran' as tensions rise with the US. (abc.net.au)
  • The debates are no longer between the pragmatists such as Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani and the more austere reactionary clerics, and Iran no longer views its international relations through the prism of its economic and strategic weakness. (cfr.org)
  • As a country that has historically been subject of foreign intervention and imposition of various capitulation treaties, Iran is inordinately sensitive of its national prerogatives and sovereign rights. (cfr.org)
  • QUAD allies India, Australia, and Japan have come together to establish a Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) after China dropped India from its South Asian Covid action plan. (eurasiantimes.com)
  • The Pakistani military, which has long carried out its own foreign policy (often separate from the Pakistani Foreign Ministry), believes it has allies who are wealthy, reliable and powerful enough to withstand the growing threats from the U.S., India, Afghanistan and most of the world. (strategypage.com)
  • While the US seeks to cloak its imperialist assault on Libya in "humanitarian" terms, its allies in the GCC are guilty of widespread violations of human rights and practice repression and torture in their own countries. (wsws.org)
  • Iran is a credible offensive actor in cyberspace having moved in recent years to boost their military capability in this area -- in the past, they relied on third-party groups and supportive hackers to carry out attacks," said Duncan Hodges, senior lecturer in Cyberspace Operations at Cranfield University. (zdnet.com)
  • In 2015 Iran went on the offensive. (swp-berlin.org)
  • Arms smuggling to Bosnia and Croatia was larger and more complex than the shipments from Iran and Turkey recently acknowledged by the Clinton administration, and involved such U.S. allies as Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Argentina, according to U.S. and Bosnian officials. (latimes.com)
  • U.S. officials learned in 1992 that Iran had opened a smuggling route to Bosnia with the assistance of Turkey, two years before a controversial decision by President Clinton to give Croatia a diplomatic "green light" for the shipments, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake said Friday. (latimes.com)
  • It was Muftic, officials said, who worked out the details of the weapons pipeline along with Omer Behmen, Bosnia's ambassador to Iran, and Hasan Cengic, a Bosnian Muslim arms dealer who now serves as Bosnia's deputy minister of defense. (latimes.com)
  • While the US commands a large sphere of influence, the Middle East presents an uncertain landscape for Washington. (abc.net.au)
  • Iran views itself as the indispensable nation in the Middle East, with its claims of hegemony and dominance. (cfr.org)
  • Since 2011 the Islamic Republic of Iran has significantly extended its influence in the Middle East. (swp-berlin.org)
  • However, now that President Trump has pulled the United States out of its obligations under the Iran deal, we will have lost all of the credibility and leverage that was painstakingly built up over years of negotiations to compel Iran to cease its support of terrorism. (thirdway.org)
  • Those nine air bases will now become assets not only for the Taliban, but for China, Iran, Pakistan, and other Taliban allies. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Also included for the first time on the list of countries considered not to be meeting minimum standards to combat human trafficking are U.S. allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar. (rferl.org)
  • The United States has imposed sanctions on dozens of people in several countries, including in Afghanistan, China, and Iran, cracking down on human rights abuses ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10. (rferl.org)
  • A report compiled for the Security Council found that Iran is one of seven countries breaking a UN arms embargo by providing weapons to the Islamic radicals who control most of southern Somalia, including the capital, Mogadishu. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • A State Department spokesman said that the administration was aware that Croatia and Bosnia were obtaining arms from Iran and other countries, including Argentina, Hungary and other sources in the former Soviet Bloc. (latimes.com)
  • Rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia over leadership of the Muslim world is also not salient within the current regional and global political context as both countries prioritize more urgent and critical national goals of economic development and security over international status and prestige. (fpif.org)
  • International inspections, which are required under the deal, have also repeatedly found that Iran is complying with its obligations. (thirdway.org)
  • It is strategically located across the Arabian Sea from Iran and astride the Strait of Hormuz, through which Persian Gulf exports must travel. (wsws.org)
  • Reuel Marc Gerecht has an article titled "The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd" at the Atlantic website. (balloon-juice.com)
  • With its own rocket production factories, tunnel networks, and weapons arsenal, PIJ remains a highly destabilizing element in Gaza, which Iran can activate as a proxy force to project its power on the region, just as Iran can do with other radical actors. (investigativeproject.org)
  • For Sweden to extradite an individual to Turkey is essentially the same as sending a woman without a veil to Iran today," says Pinar Dinç, a political scientist and researcher at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. (lu.se)
  • Importantly, if Iran is no longer constrained by the restrictions of the deal and has a nuclear weapon, many experts believe the country may actually increase its support for terrorism and other destabilizing regional activities because it will have the perceived protection of the bomb. (thirdway.org)
  • A unique confluence of events ensures that Iran will sustain a nuclear program increasingly perceived as a national imperative. (cfr.org)
  • If the JCPOA completely breaks down with other signatories withdrawing or not upholding the deal's commitments, Iran has said it may resume its nuclear program. (thirdway.org)
  • Jordan is also a close ally of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and plays an integral role in maintaining security coordination between the PA and Israeli security forces in the West Bank. (rt.com)
  • These inspections do not end and ensure the United States can keep a close eye on Iran in case it should ever try to cheat. (thirdway.org)
  • We are actually giving them the money to fund the terrorists that are killing us and our allies. (politifact.com)
  • Health policy focuses on the provision of universal care and disease prevention in an appropriate social framework, as in the former USSR, Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • Khomeini had no use for an American ally, but he valued an American adversary. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The Taliban are using hand-held biometric scanners to hunt down and kill former American allies. (frontpagemag.com)
  • It is only through the attainment of the bomb that Iran can negate nefarious American plots to undermine its stature and power. (cfr.org)
  • Beyond such perceptions, the American demands that Iran relinquish its fuel cycle rights granted to it by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has aroused the leadership's nationalistic impulses. (cfr.org)
  • It undermined the Bernie Sanders movement, especially by splitting it from a large part of the middle-income African American community. (counterpunch.org)
  • In their most recent global threat assessment -- from January last year -- US intelligence agencies said that Iran was attempting to build cyber capabilities that would enable attacks against critical infrastructure in the US and elsewhere. (zdnet.com)
  • Those effects could include disrupting a large company's corporate networks for days to weeks, as in the data-wiping attacks Iran has been accused of conducting against targets in Saudi Arabia. (zdnet.com)
  • Last week's warning from the US Department of Homeland Security noted: "Iran maintains a robust cyber program and can execute cyberattacks against the United States," it warned, adding that Iran is capable, at a minimum "of carrying out attacks with temporary disruptive effects against critical infrastructure in the United States. (zdnet.com)
  • The Pentagon Chief arrived in the Jordanian capital on a tour aimed at assuring regional allies of US policy commitments, despite the Biden administration's focus on combating Russia and China. (rt.com)
  • The Yemeni civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اليمنية, romanized: al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-yamanīyah) is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Presidential Leadership Council and the Mahdi al-Mashat-led Supreme Political Council, along with their supporters and allies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Either option could bring the United States closer to a war with Iran during which we may not have the support of many of our allies. (thirdway.org)
  • If Israel begins to ally itself with these crazed white nationalist then it will be a very short time when these idiots will be reduced to the dust bin of history if not taking down the whole Israeli state. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • But it appears more likely that PIJ used the incident as an opportunity to transmit a warning about its ability - and the ability of its sponsor, Iran - to plunge Israel and Gaza into war. (investigativeproject.org)
  • Iran also routinely threatens to directly strike Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE with ballistic missiles. (investigativeproject.org)
  • But while Iran-US tensions may be slightly easing for now, the underlying causes remain and the repercussions of the past week's events are still playing out. (abc.net.au)
  • US-Iran tensions are on the rise. (abc.net.au)
  • NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on the tense standoff between Russia and the U.S. and its allies over the Russian military buildup on the border with Ukraine. (npr.org)
  • The U.S. and its allies have been working to deter Russia from turning that military buildup into an invasion, in large part through diplomatic efforts. (npr.org)
  • I think that Putin needs to also understand that there is no question he has the largest conventional military in Europe, but as many have said to him, if indeed he goes forward with a further invasion of Ukraine, there will be body bags returning to Moscow. (npr.org)
  • If Iran has no nuclear weapons, it cannot put one on a missile. (balloon-juice.com)
  • More recently in June last year, the US attacked the computer systems used by Iran to control missile launches , after Iran shot down a US surveillance drone. (zdnet.com)
  • Oman's proved reserves of petroleum total about 5.5 billion barrels, the 24th largest in the world. (wsws.org)
  • Around 450,000 of these barrels go to the European Union - the second-largest market for Iran after China. (sacsis.org.za)
  • He has emboldened Iran, China, and Russia leading to threats and conflicts around the world. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Eritrea hopes to place pressure on its larger neighbour by building Somalia's Islamists into a major regional power and ally. (telegraph.co.uk)