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57 Million Below the Poverty Line: Iran Regime Parliament Predicts

Jubin Katiraie
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57 Million Below the Poverty Line: Iran Regime Parliament Predicts

A picture of poverty in Iran

By Jubin Katiraie

The Iranian Parliament’s Research Center published a report in which figures for the next 12 months show that between 23 and 40 percent of Iran’s population will soon be living under the absolute poverty line.

This report displays the damage that runaway inflation has caused the Iranian economy over the last couple of years. In fact, the Iranian calendar year, which began March 21st, 2018, and ran through March 20th, 2019, saw the inflation rate reaching 47 percent, and the economy dropping to a negative growth rate.

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Iran Cyber-Threat Must Not Be Pushed to the Side Amidst Issues That Appear Bigger

Mehdi Hosseini
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Iran Cyber-Threat Must Not Be Pushed to the Side Amidst Issues That Appear Bigger

Iran's cyber army

By Mehdi

Iran has been meddling in the affairs of other nations for years. It has been responsible for one of the most serious humanitarian crises in recent times in Yemen and it has contributed to the prolonging of a very bloody war in Syria.

The Iranian ruling theocracy has a network of proxy groups and militias the whole way across the region and beyond and it has been involved in countless terrorist attacks and assassinations of political opponents.

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Iran Must Be Held Fully Accountable

Pooya Stone
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Iran Must Be Held Fully Accountable

Fire the American flag in Tehran

By Pooya Stone

Tensions between Iran and the United States have escalated in recent weeks. Now, U.S. regional ally Saudi Arabia is being dragged into the middle of it by Iran after the ruling theocracy and its proxies decided to carry out armed drone attacks on Saudi oil-pumping stations.

Iranian officials have made no secret of the fact that they are attempting to subvert the world economy and the attacks on the Saudi oil pumping stations should be taken for the threat to global stability that they are.

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The Dire Effects of Sanctions on Metal for the Iranian Economy

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The Dire Effects of Sanctions on Metal for the Iranian Economy

sanctions with respect to Iran’s iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors

Iran Focus

London, 16 May – US President Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday, May 8th, “to impose sanctions with respect to Iran’s iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors, Iran’s largest non-petroleum-related sources of export revenue.” These new sanctions take aim at “Iran’s revenue from the export of industrial metals — 10 percent of its export economy — and puts other nations on notice that allowing Iranian steel and other metals into [their] ports will no longer be tolerated.”

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Supreme Leader’s Mouthpiece Announces Strategy to Target U.S. Allies

Jubin Katiraie
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Supreme Leader’s Mouthpiece Announces Strategy to Target U.S. Allies

The radar boat of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Persian Gulf

By Jubin Katiraie

Iranian dictatorship is being put under immense economic pressure by the United States. After pulling out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or 2015 Iran nuclear deal as it is known, the Trump administration has put a series of economic sanctions in place. Some were the re-imposition of sanctions that were lifted under the nuclear deal. Others have been fresh sanctions. And the word from Washington is that there will be more.

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Iran Understands Only One Language, the Language of Force

Mehdi Hosseini
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Iran Understands Only One Language, the Language of Force

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps-IRGC

By Mehdi

Around the world, people are worried about what is going to happen between the US and Iran. The Middle East has had its share of wars, like the 8-year fight between Iran and Iraq. There was also the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait between 1990 and1991, as well as the American invasion of Iraq. Iran also initiated the wars in Yemen and Syria, where millions were killed or injured.

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Sen. Lieberman: Iran Nuclear Agreement Is Dead

Pooya Stone
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Sen. Lieberman: Iran Nuclear Agreement Is Dead

UANI Chairman Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

By Pooya Stone

(New York, N.Y.) – On May 10, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Chairman Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace co-authored an op-ed on FoxNews.com
applauding the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” policy against Iran, including designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and eliminating sanctions waivers on the purchase of Iranian oil. But as they wrote, more can be done, and that means “plugging the sanctions gaps on the other critical pillar of Iran’s energy export-dependent economy: petrochemicals.”

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Iran: What Options Are Left?

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Iran: What Options Are Left?

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Iran Focus

London, 14 May – Last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made the announcement that his country had decided to partially withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He said that Iran will start to sell more heavy water and enrich more uranium than what is permitted under the terms of the deal.

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Iran Possibly Attacked Four Trading Ship Near Strait of Hormuz

Jubin Katiraie
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Iran Possibly Attacked Four Trading Ship Near Strait of Hormuz

four commercial vessels were damaged in “acts of sabotage” near the country’s territorial waters.

By Jubin Katiraie

The United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that four commercial vessels were damaged in “acts of sabotage” near the country’s territorial waters.

This was confirmed by Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, who revealed at around 6 am on Sunday revealed that two Saudi oil tankers had suffered “significant damage” in the area just 85 miles south of the strategic Strait of Hormuz shipping route, where a fifth of the world’s total oil passes through.

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Iran Oil Exports Continue Downward Spiral

Pooya Stone
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Iran Oil Exports Continue Downward Spiral

Iranian Speedboats

By Pooya Stone

Iran’s trade figures with Europe’s biggest economy are shrinking and its key oil exports are faltering. According to Bloomberg, crude oil is Iran’s main revenue source and it has compiled for foreign ports in the first nine days of May.

The unilateral sanctions on Iranian oil exports tightened on May 2nd, when waivers that allowed several countries to keep importing crude from Iran expired. Now, the US aims to reduce oil imports to zero in an effort to pressure Iran to change its perceived malign behaviors.

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