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Two Iranian Men Indicted for Deploying Ransomware to Extort Hospitals, Municipalities, and Public Institutions, Causing Over $30 Million in Losses

November 28, 2018 by

“Acting From Inside Iran,” Iranian regime agents Indicted Today Deployed Ransomware to Extort U.S. Hospitals, Municipalities, and Public Institutions, Causing Over $30 Million in Losses.
Justice Department Briefing, November 28, 2018

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski Delivers Remarks at the “SamSam” Ransomware Press Conference
Washington, DC ~ Wednesday, November 28, 2018. Remarks: https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-brian-benczkowski-delivers-remarks-samsam-ransomware-press

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EU extends Iran human rights sanctions by a year

April 13, 2018 by

DW, April 12

, 2018
The measures were first passed in 2011 in response to government repression during and after Iran’s 2009 election. The European Union is set to discuss whether it should pass new sanctions at a meeting next Monday.

On Thursday, the European Union prolonged sanctions against Iran for its human rights record until 2019.
The […]

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Iranian American Communities Rally in Support of Iran Uprising

January 19, 2018 by

Despite subzero temperatures, on January 6, 2018 hundreds of Iranian Americans held their second rally outside the White House in as many weeks to express solidarity with nationwide protests against the clerical regime in Iran.

Rally participants repeated chants of anti-regime demonstrators in Iran and thanked the administration and members of Congress for their public support for […]

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Nikki Haley shows blinders may finally be off on US-Iran policy

September 30, 2017 by

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In a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Nikki Haley sought to dismantle the political and intellectual firewall that has, for over a decade, thwarted the development of a comprehensive U.S. policy toward Iran.
Haley rejected the prevailing notion that Iran’s nuclear activities comprise a special sort of threat that can […]

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Haley to review Iran nuclear activities

August 23, 2017 by

Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will travel to Vienna later this month to discuss Iran’s nuclear activities with U.N. atomic watchdog officials, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, as part of Washington’s review of Tehran’s compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal
The official told Reuters that Haley, a member […]

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Has the Iran Lobby Set its Sights on the Trump Administration?

November 30, 2016 by

Repeated attacks on Iranian dissidents featuring discredited talking points normally espoused by Tehran’s well-organized Washington lobby are landing with Donald Trump’s White House transition in full swing.Daniel Benjamin’s Politico Magazine hit job – Giuliani Took Money From a Group That Killed Americans. Does Trump Care? and Josh Rogin’s takedown in The Washington Post – Giuliani […]

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The Washington Post: “In Syria’s Aleppo, Shiite militias point to Iran’s unparalleled influence”

November 30, 2016 by

By Hugh Naylor
November 20, 2016
BEIRUT — Syria’s government hopes a brutal siege will vanquish rebel holdouts in the city of Aleppo, a key battleground. But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops aren’t leading the charge.
That task has been taken up by thousands of Shiite militiamen from Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan who are loyal to Iran, […]

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Huffington Post – “On Trump’s Presidential Victory: Losing Graciously and Winning Humbly”

November 30, 2016 by

by Dr. Majid Rafizadeh President of the International American Council

If politics were like sports, the losers would take their losses graciously; but Washington politics are not like sports.

Some still appear to have a difficult time at accepting the results of the presidential election, but they should not act like an attorney who lost his case before […]

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Ransom for Freed Hostages Invites Tehran to Take More!

January 23, 2016 by

Reuters

Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe: U.S. sources
WASHINGTON/DAVOS | BY MARK HOSENBALL AND DAVID BRUNNSTROM
Fri Jan 22, 2016

Asaib Ahl al-Haq Shi’ite militia fighters from the south of Iraq run during a mission to take control of Sulaiman Pek village from Islamist State militants, in the northwest of Tikrit city September 1, 2014.
REUTERS/YOUSSEF BOUDLAL

U.S. intelligence […]

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Kerry Acknowledges Iran May Misuse Funds, Draws Fire From Congress

January 22, 2016 by

The Wall Street Journal

FELICIA SCHWARTZ

Jan. 21, 2016

DAVOS, Switzerland—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said some of the funds freed up by the implementation of the Iranian nuclear deal could end up in the hands of the hard-liner Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and wouldn’t rule out the possibility that they could be used for terrorism, but […]

Filed Under: Iran, Regional Security
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