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Gcc Wants Increased Pressure on Iran

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GCC wants increased pressure on Iran

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London, 14 May – The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has urged the international community to ramp up the pressure on Iran to respect the UN Charter, stop giving ballistic missiles to the Houthis in Yemen, and stop meddling in the affairs of Arab nation-states.

ON Sunday, GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif Al-Zayani said: “The GCC countries want a Middle East free from all weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons.”

Zayani noted that, despite Iran’s struggling economy, the mullah’s have ploughed their resources into destabilising the region, including supplying the Yemeni Houthis with weapons to use against Saudi Arabia.

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Iran Now Engaged in Direct Fighting

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Iran Now Engaged in Direct Fighting

Israel attacked 50 IRGC positions in Syria

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London, 13 May – Last week, Israel attacked 50 positions in Syria that were managed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The attack was in retaliation for Iran’s firing of 10 missiles toward Israel.

In an attempt to explain the situation, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid al-Khalifa said on Twitter, “Since Iran violated the status quo in the region and violated countries’ (sovereignty) via their forces and missiles, then any country in the region, including Israel, has the right to defend itself by destroying the sources of threat.”

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NCRI Hosts Panel Discussion: Iran’s Ballistic Missiles and Solutions

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NCRI Hosts Panel Discussion: Iran’s Ballistic Missiles and Solutions

Iran’s Ballistic Missiles and Solutions

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London, 13 May – The National Council of Resistance of Iran-US Representative Office (NCRI-US) hosted a panel of experts to discuss Iran’s missile program and its ties with the nuclear weapons program, on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. The group presented a new 133-page book by the NCRI-US, Iran’s Ballistic Buildup: The March toward Nuclear-Capable Missiles, by Alireza Jafarzadeh, the deputy director of the NCRI’s Washington office.

The book has dozens of charts, pictures, satellite imageries, and maps, which provide details on the crucial infrastructure of Tehran’s ballistic missile program.

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Teacher Protests Throughout Iran Faced With Security Force Brutality

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Teacher Protests Throughout Iran Faced With Security Force Brutality

Teacher Protests throughout Iran faced with Security Force Brutality

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London, 11 May – Incoming reports indicate a number of teachers being “beaten and detained” during a protest by retired and employed teachers in Tehran, “in the aftermath of crackdown by security forces.”

The protest took place on Thursday May 10th, in front of the Planning and Budget Organization in Tehran, and held in front of the Education Department in other cities throughout the country.

According to reports, agents arrested 6 people at the protest in front of the “Plan and Budget Organization” in Tehran, whose location and fate is still uncertain.

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US Imposes New Sanctions on IRGC

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US Imposes New Sanctions on IRGC

US imposes new sanctions on IRGC

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London, 11 May – The US has imposed sanctions on six individuals and three companies that have ties to Iran’s suppressive security force, the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Quds Force.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the sanctions targeted those responsible for funnelling millions of dollars to the IRGC, which was then used to fund its “malign activity”.

He said: “[Iran’s central bank helped the IRGC to access US dollars via] a large-scale currency exchange network.”

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The Truth About Iran’s Resistance Economy

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The Truth About Iran’s Resistance Economy

The truth about Iran’s resistance economy

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London, 11 May – A high-ranking member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) main engineering arm has claimed that they will complete 40 large projects in the next 12 months in industries like oil, gas, water management, road/railway construction, and information technology.

General Ebadollah Abdollahi, the commander of Khatam al-Anbia Construction Base, said that the 10 projects that they will undertake for the Oil Ministry alone will raise them $22 billion.

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Lebanese Elections Raise Question of Iran’s Role in the Middle East

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Lebanese Elections Raise Question of Iran’s Role in the Middle East

Lebanese elections raise question of Iran’s role in the Middle East

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London, 11 May – The balance of power in Lebanon has not been changed by the recent elections – something that should shock nobody – and we now have even more proof that the Iran-backed Hezbollah dominates the country’s decision-making.

If you want proof, consider that Lebanon never commits to the “policy of dissociating” itself from regional crises. This is certainly Iran’s doing, as everyone knows that Iran seeks to meddle in the affairs of other nation states in order to destabilise them and eventually take power, whether by using a proxy militia (i.e. Hezbollah in Lebanon) or by supporting the malign government (i.e. Bashar Assad in Syria).

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Iran Meddles in Dispute Between Algeria and Morocco

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Iran Meddles in Dispute Between Algeria and Morocco

Iran Meddles in Dispute between Algeria and Morocco

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London, 10 May – The Arab world was concerned over the recent emergence of an Iranian embassy in Algeria, but the arrival of Amir Mousavi, believed to be an Iranian intelligence agent, who intended to interfere in the dispute between Algeria and Morocco over the Western Sahara conflict, led Morocco to cut diplomatic relations with Tehran.

Morocco controls about 90 per cent of the Western Sahara territory, where the Algerian-backed Polisario have been fighting a protracted guerrilla war against Moroccan security forces. Irrefutable evidence reportedly proved that shipments of weapons, which included surface-to-air missiles, comprising of SAM9, SAM22 and Strela shoulder-launched missiles, had been sent via Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah. As well, members of the Polisario, are allegedly being trained in urban warfare at a military base in Tindouf, Algeria, where they are being taught how to use ground-air rocket systems.

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Us Will Continue to Work With Allies to Prevent a Nuclear Iran

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Us Will Continue to Work With Allies to Prevent a Nuclear Iran

US will continue to work with allies to prevent a nuclear Iran

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London, 10 May – The United States will continue to work with its allies to ensure that the Iranian Regime does not acquire a nuclear weapon even after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear accord, according to US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday.

Before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Mattis said: “We will continue to work alongside our allies and partners to ensure that Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon, and will work with others to address the range of Iran’s malign influence. This Administration remains committed to putting the safety, interests, and well-being of our citizens first.”

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Iran’s Houthis Fire More Missiles at Saudi Arabia

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Iran’s Houthis Fire More Missiles at Saudi Arabia

Iran’s Houthis fire more missiles at Saudi Arabia

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London, 10 May – The Iran-backed Houthis fired several ballistic missiles at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, but, luckily, these were intercepted by the kingdom’s missile defence systems and there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

This attack came only one day after the US – Saudi Arabia’s top Western ally – withdrew from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, which could mean that Iran may well target US allies and interests in the Middle East in retaliation.

The Iran-backed Houthis, who control the majority of Yemen since their takeover in 2014, reported that the missiles were aimed at economic targets in Riyadh. They have fired a series of ballistic missiles, at least some of which are proven by the UN to be Iranian-made, at Saudi Arabia in the past year.

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