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Bahrain Says It Foils “Terrorist Attack” Backed By Iran – Media

Radiofarda – Bahrain said on Sunday it had foiled a “terrorist attack” backed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Saudi state television Al-Ekhbariya and a local Bahraini newspaper reported, both citing Bahrain’s interior ministry. Bahrain, host to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and other international naval operations, has often accused Shi’ite Muslim Iran of seeking to subvert the kingdom, which …

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Opinion: Why The Iran-Iraq War Matters For The Success Of Maximum Pressure

Radiofarda – “War, War until victory” was a popular slogan chanted by revolutionaries in Tehran amid the bloody Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). But after years of fighting with no victory in sight, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Republic, was forced to settle for a UNSC sponsored ceasefire resolution which he compared to drinking from “a poisoned chalice.” Seldom has …

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From Foe To Friend: How Iran Transformed Post-war Iraq Ties

Radiofarda – In the four decades since Iran and Iraq went to war, Tehran has turned enmity into influence, seeing its allies installed in Baghdad’s halls of power and becoming its top trading partner. It’s a turn of events Aziz Jaber, a political science professor at Baghdad’s Mustansariyah University and a survivor of the conflict, never thought possible. “It would …

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Report: US to Slap Sanctions on More Than Two Dozen Targets Tied to Iran Arms

VOA – The United States on Monday will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Iran’s nuclear, missile and conventional arms programs, a senior U.S. official said, putting teeth behind U.N. sanctions on Tehran that Washington argues have resumed despite the opposition of allies and adversaries. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said Iran could have …

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Iran: Prisoner Elias Bakhtiari Executed in Yazd

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoners sentenced to death on “drug-related” charges was executed in Yazd Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of Wednesday, September 16, a prisoner was executed in Yazd Central Prison. His identity has been established as Kashan native, Elias Bakhtiari, who had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges. An informed …

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