Iran
“We will do everything to prevent the return to this bad agreement, which is leading to a nuclear Iran under international auspices,” says the Israeli prime minister.
The secretary of state also “emphasized the continued U.S. commitment to a two-state solution and opposition to policies that endanger its viability,” said the State Department.
The request, reportedly for this year and the next, is part of an effort to boost Iran strike preparations, as well as to compensate for inflation.
Mehdi Bahman was arrested in October for an interview in which he called for peace with the Jewish state.
Brig.-Gen. Esmayeel Qaani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force predicted that the Palestinians would soon evict Israelis from their homeland.
Dozens of reported Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria in 2022.
Activists have smuggled the Starlink receivers into the country to circumvent regime limits on communication.
“Our enemies need to know that we will not sit idly by in the face of threats that we deem to be existential,” says the outgoing prime minister.
“Agreement in principle” was reached with the U.S. and IAEA during the Baghdad II summit in Amman, but Washington “told us not to announce this officially,” says Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee member Javad Karimi-Ghodousi.
Law instructs the U.S. government to sanction Iranian agents who harass anti-regime dissidents and activists.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Iranian women protesting oppression and antisemitism coming back into fashion were just a few of the attention-grabbers this past year.