By Jubin Katiraie

The leading Iranian opposition group said Wednesday that the Trump administration should add Iran’s intelligence ministry (MOIS) to its list of foreign terrorist groups in order to hold Iran responsible for its terrorist acts that span the past four decades.

MOIS agents operate closely with the Quds Force, an arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, both of which are already on the US’s terror watch list. The MOIS is “heavily involved with terrorism”, according to Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, most notably working with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas in direct operations against Iran’s enemies.

By Jubin Katiraie

The U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) will hold a press briefing on Wednesday in Washington about the ‘inner workings’ of Iran’s terrorist and espionage machinery.

According to a press advisory, the NCRI will detail:

• The intimate partnership between Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in plotting and conducting terror operations abroad;

By Mehdi

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran on Monday of ordering the Houthi rebels in Yemen to continue fighting despite commitments they made in Stockholm last December.

Pompeo, speaking at an event in Washington hosted by The Hill newspaper, said: “[The Houthis] continue to refuse to comply with the agreements that they signed up for in Stockholm, Sweden, they refuse to withdraw from the port of Hodeidah … this is because Iran has chosen to direct them to do that.”