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Al-Arabia – Iran is sending its biggest fleet yet of tankers to Venezuela in defiance of US sanctions to help the isolated nation weather a crippling fuel shortage, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some of the flotilla of about 10 Iranian vessels will also help export Venezuelan crude after discharging fuel, the people said, asking not to …

Al-Arabia – The recently assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was recorded saying he had been asked to produce “five warheads” for the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to reports by the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth quoted in the Times of Israel. The recording was reportedly acquired by Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after Israeli intelligence recruited an Iranian …

gatestoneinstitute.org – We may be proved wrong, but our guess is that Tehran will do nothing to raise the degree of tension even by one notch…. Khamenei promised “hard revenge” for Soleimani’s death but has vowed nothing but “prosecution and punishment” of perpetrators. His emphasis is on “the continuation” of Fakhrizadeh’s work. In other words, as long as our progress …

RF/RLE – Iran’s Supreme Court has said it will review the cases of three young men sentenced to death over links to anti-government protests in November 2019. “The case will be reviewed in another tribunal,” the court’s website said on December 5, without providing further details. The men were sentenced earlier in 2020, after being found guilty of “collusion to …

VOA – The top U.S. Navy official in the Mideast said Sunday America has reached an “uneasy deterrence” with Iran after months of regional attacks and seizures at sea, even as tensions remain high between Washington and Tehran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.  Vice Adm. Sam Paparo, who oversees the Navy’s 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, struck an academic …