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Al-Monitor -The intelligence chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) encouraged local militia leaders during a recent meeting in Iraq to increase their small-scale attacks against US positions in the country, Reuters reported today. IRGC intel chief Hossein Taeb visited pro-Iran militias in Iraq and Syria last week after the US conducted airstrikes late last month against two sites used by …

RFL/RE – Washington has said that it will issue no ultimatums on the window for a seventh round of talks on Iran’s atomic activities but added a warning over potential “nuclear advances” in the meantime. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that only Tehran can say when the talks — begun in an effort to revive the 2015 nuclear …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Have the Biden administration and the European Union already forgotten the disastrous outcome of appeasing the mullahs in 2015…? US President Barack Obama pledged at the time that he was “confident” the deal would “meet the national security needs of the United States and our allies”. Throughout that time, the EU and the Obama administration not only initiated …

Iranwire – At least four Iranian kolbars or border couriers have been shot and killed in Iran’s border regions in the past two weeks. Behzad Rahimi, an MP for Saghez and Baneh in Kurdistan province, revealed the killings during a sitting of the Iranian parliament on Saturday. Border guards, he said, were shooting directly at the victims’ heads and hearts. On the …

Iranwire – It has been more than three decades since the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, from 1980 to 1988, but the exact fates of many Iranian soldiers, who were killed or went missing in action, remain unclear. The Islamic Republic officially terms victims of this war “martyrs” and one of these martyrs was Yousef Ilkhichi Moghaddam, a Baha’i …