Egypt warns giving women some rights could destroy society

Iran, al-Qaeda relationship is showing cracks, US officials and analysts say

US Sanctions Greek Businessman for Helping Iran Ship Oil

Iran steps up weapons lifeline to Syria’s Assad – envoys

Ripe oil market offers window to amp up pressure on Iran: report

Covert Iranian nuclear dealings via Turkey revealed

Erosion of Syrian power accelerating, top US intelligence official says

Hezbollah’s European enablers

Hezbollah expanding its telecom network

Iran blocks use of tool to get around Internet filter

Iran-North Korea Pact Draws Concern

Iran: Haven or prison for al Qaeda?

Qantas caught in Iran plot

India set to halt Iran oil imports over insurance

A nifty conceit: the EU, Hezbollah, and Lebanon

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith served Osama bin Laden as a spokesman, threatened mass casualty attacks against America, and recruited the al Qaeda cell responsible for a 2002 attack on US Marines in Kuwait. He lived under a loose former of house arrest in Iran for years before being reportedly freed in 2010.

Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei criticized Western powers for not offering concessions in last week’s talks over Iran’s nuclear program. He said the West was using the program as a pretext to impose economic sanctions.

The Counterterrorism Bureau at Israel’s National Security Council has warned Israeli citizens that Iran and Hezbollah are still plotting attacks against Israelis abroad. In addition, the bureau warned of an increasing threat “of global jihad attacks in Africa.”

US General Mattis said sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program were not working. US Secretary of State Kerry said Iran was getting closer to building a nuclear bomb. The US delegate to the UN’s nuclear agency accused Iran of “deception, defiance and delay”. In a joint statement, the EU said Iran was stonewalling the UN agency.

Iran’s Khamenei seen tightening his grip in vote to replace Ahmadinejad

Big powers want fast results in revived diplomacy with Iran

US, Saudis paper over differences on Syria, Iran during Kerry visit

Second trading firm says it supplied Iranian firm linked to atomic work

US Weighs Risks and Motives of Hacking by China or Iran

Iran announced it planned to build 3,000 advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges while it phased out 12,000 older generation centrifuges. In February, Iran began installing the new centrifuges at its main Natanz uranium enrichment facility. An Iranian dhow carrying Chinese antiaircraft missiles was seized off the Yemeni coast.

In talks with Iran, reality tempers hopes on nuclear deal

How Iran Went Nuclear

Glencore supplying metals to Iran nuclear program

The Assassination of Iranian Quds Force General Hassan Shateri in Syria
