AFP | April 4, 2024 Geneva (AFP) – The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday prolonged by a year an independent international fact-finding mission investigating Iran’s deadly crackdown on protests that erupted in 2022. The United Nations’ top rights body extended the mission, and the mandate of the council’s special rapporteur on […]
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Suzanne Maloney – VP and director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution BROOKINGS | March 1, 2024 Chairman Cardin, Ranking Member Risch, and distinguished members, thank you for inviting me to contribute my views on the intensifying threats posed by Iran’s proxy network across the Middle East and how
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National Review | By LUTHER RAY ABEL | February 18, 2024 Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East, was remarkably blunt when asked by Norah O’Donnell of CBS News the extent of Iran’s aid rendered to the Houthi rebels who’ve
AP | February 8, 2024 STOCKHOLM (AP) — A senior member of the Swedish security police said Thursday that Iran has planned attacks on the country, days after local media reported that two Iranians were deported for a plot to kill three Swedish Jews several years ago. Earlier this week, Swedish
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New York Post | Joe Lieberman | Feb. 2, 2024 Though many in Washington were slow to recognize it, it’s now clear to all Iran has launched a war in the Middle East against the United States and our closest allies in Israel and the Arab world.
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Politico | BY CHUCK WALD | JANUARY 19, 2024 Addressing the impact of Houthi actions is a pressing issue, but efforts to resolve the crisis should be focused on the real source behind the conflict — Tehran. Chuck Wald is a retired U.S. Air Force general and was Deputy
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AP | By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson | December 19, 2023 STOCKHOLM, Dec 19 (Reuters) – A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday upheld a guilty verdict and life sentence given to a former Iranian official convicted last year for his part in a mass execution of political prisoners in
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Have Iran’s Mullahs Reached a Tipping Point with West Over Their Attacks on Commercial Shipping? Townhall | Struan Stevenson | Dec. 2, 2023 Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have stepped up their drone and missile attacks on
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November 21, 2023, MADRID (AP) — Three people were arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting of a Spanish right-wing politician earlier this month. Alejandro Vidal-Quadras, 78, was shot in the face in broad daylight on a Madrid street on Nov. 9. He remains hospitalized. The National Police force’s press department said two suspects were detained
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VOA | 11/3/2023 AFP, PARIS — More than 600 people have been executed by Iran so far this year, already the highest figure in eight years with two months of 2023 to go, a rights group said Friday. There were nine executions in a single day in a prison outside Tehran
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