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Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged the United States on Sunday to heed calls against any removal of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps from the US terrorism blacklist. “We’re concerned about the intention to delist the IRGC,” Bennett told visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “I hope the United States will hear the concerned voices from the …

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has joined his counterparts from Israel and four Persian Gulf countries for talks in Jerusalem expected to center on continuing Iranian nuclear negotiations after assuring U.S. allies that they and Washington “see eye to eye.” Host Israel has publicly opposed the 2015 deal between Iran and world powers to grant sanctions relief …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Authorities called on ten other Muslim converts to Christianity, who were earlier cleared of all charges, to take “re-education” classes led by Islamic clerics… Earlier, the prosecutor in the case against these Christians had said that “apostasy” from Islam was punishable under Islamic law, or sharia, “and in the hereafter,” even though it was “not criminalised in the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – To justify his invasion, Putin has cited irredentist demands coupled with kith-and-kin claims and national security interests. If adopted as acceptable behavior, Putin’s scenario would be applicable to numerous other cases across the globe. The most obvious example is that of China, where the Communist regime can threaten Taiwan on the basis of Putin’s arguments. But the same …

Iranwire – During the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, from 1980 to 1988, thousands of Baha’is went to the front alongside their compatriots. Dozens of them were killed, wounded or captured. The Islamic Republic is reluctant to name them alongside other victims of the conflict – the ones were were killed are officially termed “martyrs” of the war. A continuing series of …