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gatestoneinstitute.org – Rival Islamist groups are already present, controlling chunks of territory. The so-called ISIS is planted in Konar and Loghar while another outfit known as Khorasan and promising to create a new caliphate covering parts of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran is also busy recruiting. The Taliban itself is a far from united outfit with Pakistan, Islamic Republic …

timesofisrael – The Iranian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that it was expanding its defense efforts beyond the borders of the country, in an apparent message of deterrence to Israel and the West, as hopes for a return to the 2015 nuclear deal continue to fade. “Our country has an important role to play in strengthening the resistance front and …

Al-Arabia – Iranian expert Haidar Sirjan and nine other Iran-backed Houthi militants including two colonels have been killed following an airstrike by the Arab Coalition forces on Houthi militia sites in Marib, according to Yemen’s minister of information Moammar al-Eryani. “This confirms the size and level of Iranian involvement and its destabilizing role in security and stability of Yemen,” al-Eryani …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Biden administration… has made no efforts to pressure the Iranian regime into answering the International Atomic Energy Agency’s questions about three undeclared clandestine nuclear sites found in Iran. “For objectivity’s sake, I should say that the Iranian government has reiterated its will to engage and to cooperate and to provide answers, but they haven’t done that so …

RFL/RE – Recently elected Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said his government will place a priority on fighting COVID-19. “The government’s first priority is controlling the coronavirus, improving the health situation, and widespread vaccination,” Raisi said on August 21 as parliament began debating the conservative leader’s male-only cabinet choices. “The economy and the livelihood situation is the second” priority, he …