Iran
The IRGC was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the Trump administration in 2019, becoming the first state-affiliated organization to be included on the list.
The “Open Hands” Telegram channel claims that its “lengthy intelligence operation” against David Barnea dates back to 2014.
It said hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles were hit in the attack.
The websites were targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which overwhelms servers, but made a quick recovery.
“There will be no connection between developments in Ukraine and the Vienna talks,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
There are multiple intended recipients for Iran’s brinkmanship messaging, which is calculated to intimidate but not spark a full-scale war at this time.
They aim for a policy that “completely blocks Iran’s path to a nuclear-weapons capability, constrains Iran’s ballistic-missile program and confronts Iran’s support for terrorism.”
The Institute for Science and International Security said the Islamic Republic has enough uranium to use as feed for two nuclear weapons.
The new deal is “worse than its predecessor” the JCPOA and will see Iran become a nuclear threshold state in three years’ time, says former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine should remind us that there are nations you simply cannot trust,” the former Connecticut senator tells JNS.
The shah’s government facilitated the purchase of the land in 1971 to mark 2,500 years to Cyrus the Great’s edict allowing Babylonians to worship the god of their choice.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price had said that a new agreement was “close,” adding that “it’s really down to a very small number of outstanding issues.”
