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      <title>Meet Esmaeil Khatib, Iran’s new spymaster</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A radical Islamist with close ties to both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the IRGC, Iran’s new intelligence minister is likely to take a more aggressive approach than his predecessor.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 06:55:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran may purge its intelligence community</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Former IRGC intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaee Republic confirms for the first time that top-secret Iranian nuclear documents were stolen by Israel in 2018,]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 06:50:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The security implications of the Iran-China deal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the agreement will boost Iran’s intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities, and thereby make it more aggressive.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 07:57:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Khatam al-Anbiya company and the future of the IRGC empire</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The West assumes that if the Islamist regime of Iran is granted some leeway, it will stop its aggression. The IRGC’s push for absolute power in Iran and belligerent empire-building across the Middle East suggest otherwise.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 06:45:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran is a threat to Swedish national security</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the recently published Swedish Security Service Yearbook 2020, which discusses the main security and intelligence challenges faced by Sweden over the past year, Iran is mentioned 14 times.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 07:24:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Russia-Iran intelligence pact</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tehran’s devastating counterintelligence failures prove the regime needs help in this area, and Russia may be its best option.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:39:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IRGC Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan as Iran’s next president?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dehghan was responsible for the vicious crackdown on opponents of the Islamic regime in the 1980s and played a central role in the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:06:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: What are Iran’s options?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tehran will have to respond to the killing of the architect of its nuclear program, but will likely look to save face rather than risk open war.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:19:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The al-Masri assassination: Another Iranian intelligence failure</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tehran will probably look to reform its counterintelligence community and may ask for assistance in this endeavor from both Russia and China.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:21:36 GMT</pubDate>
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