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THE ESSEX FILES: Operation Economic Fury: How the Treasury’s $1B Crypto Raid stops the Iran Thaw

Fault Lines Episode 601: Losing the Plot in Iran?

Today, Les, Algene, and John dig into the murky details of a reported Memorandum of Understanding between U.S. and Iran — a document that…Continue reading on The SCIF »

Iran’s procurement network had an Orange County address

Federal prosecutors have alleged that an Orange County technology executive, Jamshid Ghomi, 63, spent years supplying US equipment to Iran’s nuclear program and to entities linked...

Israel’s Regime-Change Plan for Iran

Here’s the wild back story behind a failed plan to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s next leader.

NYT: Former Iran President Ahmadinejad Was Israeli Spy

Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad

The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days of the wa...

Israel Tried to Flip Former Iranian President

“The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days of the w...

39-year-old Israeli charged with spying for Iran during war

An indictment filed against Nissan Aviv reveals that the Bat Yam resident was paid $20 to film a video about himself, before being paid to provide additional information regarding...

Inside the Mossad plot to install Israel's arch-enemy Ahmadinejad as Iran's leader

A Haaretz investigation reveals how Mossad agents brought former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on board, the shock within Netanyahu's cabinet and the recruitment of collabo...

Iranian Endgames

Iran survives by delay, deception, and deterrence games-but the moment may be coming when airpower, not diplomacy, decides how the nuclear standoff ends.

Secret correspondence claims suggest tensions at top of Iranian government

Former negotiating team member gives shock interview claiming supreme leader’s instructions were not followedMiddle East crisis – live updatesA former member of Iran’s negotiating...

The Hard-Line Military Fraternity Running Iran

Decision making in Iran is guided by a small group of men associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Iranian-American Nabbed By Feds, Charged With Smuggling Pricey Tech to Help ‘Motherland’ Regime

The FBI arrested an Iranian-born American citizen in Southern California for allegedly smuggling millions of dollars worth of tech hardware into Iran The post Iranian-American Nabb...

Iran Under Fire as Bessent Ratchets Up Financial Squeeze

IAEA board demands Iran disclose uranium stockpiles

ALBAWABA- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on Wednesday adopted a U.S...

US illegally shared confidential information on Iranian asylum seekers with Iran, lawsuit says

The lawsuit depicts a coordinated campaign between the U.S. and Iranian governments to identify Iranians in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and pressure them to return...

Mojtaba's Medieval Messaging: Iran's Supreme Leader Reportedly Hiding in a Bunker, Talking Via Couriers

The film Iran really wants you to see

THERE is a three-minute video circulating from Tehran, and it is worth your time to watch it, though not for the reasons the Iranian government intended. CNN’s Matthew Chance filed...

Surrounded but Dangerous: The Islamic Republic’s Desperate Fight for Survival

How Tehran’s Reliance on Terror Proxies, Geopolitical Extortion, Internal Repression, and Dependence on China and Russia Reveals a Regime in Structural Decline (By Erfan Fard/RealC...

Fmr. Iranian president under house arrest after regime uncovers ties to Israel, Mossad - report

For years, Israel conducted a covert operation aimed at recruiting former Iranian president Ahmadinejad as an intelligence asset and, at a later stage, even planned to install him...

Iran's Intransigence

Plus: Rent freeze, conservatism, breadwinners by gender, and more...

Iranian TV unveils part of terms of MOU between Washington and Tehran

ALBAWABA - Iranian state television announced on Wednesday that it had obtained the unofficial, preliminary text of a 14-point memorandum of understanding between Iran and the Unit...

Iran used Romanian proxies to attack London-based Iranian journalist, UK court hears

‘Facing the Middle East’ examines Iran’s repression, black-Jewish solidarity, regional war risks

The Media Line began with the Islamic Republic’s efforts to reach Iranians abroad while tightening its grip on dissent at home, then turned to an exclusive report on its sexual abu...