Iranwire – A man with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was arrested outside the home of well-known Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn, New York. Khalid Mehdiyev, 23, is a professional judoka from Azerbaijan. Authorities in the city believe he was acting at the behest of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where the Ministry of Intelligence has previously sponsored a plot …

Iranwire – IranWire has learned that earlier today, 31 July, three members of the long-disbanded Yaran, or “friends” of the Baha’i community in Iran, who until 2008 helped to administer the community’s affairs, were detained. Mahvash Sabet, Fariba Kamalabadi and Afif Naemi were all taken to an unknown location. Sabet, a writer, was recognized by English PEN as an International Writer …

VOA – Iranian border guards clashed Sunday with the Afghan Taliban, Iranian media reported, the latest cross-border exchange since the former insurgents seized power in neighboring Afghanistan a year ago. The official IRNA news agency quoted Meisam Barazandeh, governor of the border country of Hirmand in eastern Iran, as saying that the incident is under investigation. He did not provide …

gatestoneinstitute.org – There is no way that you or anyone else could help the Iranian people return to normalcy as long as the present regime is in place in Tehran. A people that finds itself in the hands of a brutal authoritarian regime that claims a divine mandate and is ready to do whatever it takes to remain in power, …