Russia and Iran are the two most sanctioned countries in the world. Iran had the most before Russia invaded Ukraine with around 3,600. Russia had 2,695. After the invasion in February 2022, sanctions on Russia skyrocketed to more than 16,000. “The sanctions
The top military leadership of Pakistan and neighboring Iran agreed to step up cooperation and intelligence sharing and take “effective actions” to prevent attacks by separatist militants along their porous border, Pakistani officials said Monday. The agreement was reached during a visit
Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant revealed Thursday that Israel and other intelligence partners thwarted more than 50 attempts to attack Jewish and Israeli targets worldwide, all orchestrated by Iran. Most of them were at the last stages of execution and were stopped
A U.S. intelligence report released this week found that Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon, but it is bolstering capabilities that would make it easier for Tehran to do so. A report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Iran has sentenced a popular rapper to six years and three months in prison over his participation in protests that rocked the country last year, his supporters said Monday. A social media account run by supporters of Toomaj Salehi announced the sentence,
Iran boasted in early July that it secured sensitive electronic data seized during a June raid on an Iranian opposition group in Albania, sparking outrage from the exiled Iranian Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) group. Albanian authorities confiscated 150 computer devices from MEK opposition due
A fresh batch of damning European intelligence reports reveal that the Islamic Republic of Iran sought to bypass U.S. and EU sanctions to secure technology for its nuclear weapons program with a view toward testing an atomic bomb. According to the Middle
The Brazilian women’s soccer team has arrived in Australia ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which begins on July 20, and they came with a message. The team’s plane landed in Brisbane on Wednesday morning, but it wasn’t your standard aircraft:
The U.S. Navy on Wednesday said it stopped Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman following a series of attacks and seizures on vessels in the region since 2019. The first seizure attempt occurred around 1 a.m. local
Republican senators and the powerful head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Michael McCaul, R-Texas., are leading the charge to secure answers about the Biden administration’s Special Envoy for Iran allegedly mishandling classified documents. President Biden’s Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, has