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iranintl – A former IRGC general says the revolutionary guards knew about the plans to seize the US Embassy in Tehran two days before the attack on the compound in 1979. Mohsen Rafighdoost was in charge of the Revolutionary Guard’s Logistics when he says he was told that a group of students were going to storm the US embassy in …

iranintl – Intriguing figures released this week in Iran reveal that over the past decade the government has spent more than $100 billion from the national reserve fund. Local media reported the disclosure by the Iranian parliament’s research center on Friday, illustrating that as stringent international sanctions struck Iran during 2011-2012, the administration of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad initiated withdrawals …

VOA – An American-owned oil tanker long suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian crude oil began offloading its cargo near Texas late Saturday, tracking data showed, even as Tehran has threatened to target shipping in the Persian Gulf over it. The fate of the cargo aboard the Suez Rajan has become mired in the wider tensions between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic, …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s defense minister said his country has developed “ramjet” engines, the key component to supersonic cruise missiles.   Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani told a crowd of worshipers in Tehran on Friday that the Iranian defense ministry is now capable of mass producing the engine, which can boost a cruise missile’s speed to five times the sound of speed.   The …

RFL/RE – Iranian police have accused 12 women’s rights activists arrested earlier this week of “acting against national security” by planning and coordinating events ahead of the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, who died while in police custody, sparking a year of nationwide unrest. The police commander of Gilan Province and the Gilan Intelligence Department accused the activists of “communicating …