Iran Focus

London, 3 Aug – The new secret routes used by Iran to smuggle weapons to the Houthi terror cell have been uncovered in a new report by Reuters.

For the past six months, the Iranian Regime has been using the waters between Kuwait and Iran to evade the embargo on arms shipments to the terrorist group in Yemen, according to both Western and Iranian sources.

A senior Iranian official said: “Parts of missiles, launchers and drugs are smuggled into Yemen via Kuwaiti waters. The route sometimes is used for transferring cash as well.”

Iran Focus

Washington, 3 Aug – US President Donald Trump signed into law new sanctions against Iran, Russia and North Korea on Wednesday.

The newly-enacted law adds sanctions to anyone involved in Iran’s ballistic missile programme, including those who “manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer, or use such capabilities”.

Iran Focus

London, 2 Aug – The Iranian Regime may have paid Temple Mount rioters in Jerusalem last month, according to reports in Israel Hayom.

Their article quoted an anonymous intelligence official in the Palestinian Authority as saying that Iran was supporting the protests against increased security at the site.

The source said that the Iranian Regime has provided “millions of shekels” to the protesters, even stirring up renewed animosity between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Iran Focus

London, 1 Aug – An Iranian human rights activist has praised the new US sanctions on Iran, claiming that they succeed, where the nuclear deal failed.

Amir Basiri, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, in which he referred to the most recent sanctions as a “milestone achievement in countering the Iranian regime’s belligerence and fixing some of the key flaws contained in the [2015] nuclear deal”.