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Trial set for men accused of targeting Iranian dissident in New York Prosecutors say the men helped direct a murder-for-hire scheme aimed at Masih Alinejad. The trial is expected to show Iran’s efforts to punish those who criticize it, no matter where they are.

March 10, 2025 Colin Moynihan

(NY Times) First, the Iranian government was accused of trying to lure a journalist and dissident from New York City to Turkey to abduct and imprison her. Then, according to U.S. officials, intelligence agents schemed unsuccessfully to kidnap the woman, Masih Alinejad. […]

Hamas hostage taker who wrote for US-based website boasted of ‘actively coordinating’ with American campus protesters, lawsuit alleges Abdallah Aljamal allegedly informed hostages that Hamas would 'ensure that the United States, as well as Jews and Israelis, are hated everywhere'

March 6, 2025 Adam Kredo

(Free Beacon) A Hamas operative who also wrote for a U.S.-based nonprofit publication bragged to his Israeli hostages about how the terror group “was in contact and actively coordinating” with anti-Israel protesters at American colleges, according to eyewitness accounts detailed in a […]

Toronto man who helped Iran evade sanctions used 3 identities, CBSA reveals

March 5, 2025 Stewart Bell and Nathaniel Dove

(Global News) On paper, Ameen Cohen is a 37-year-old banking professional with a business degree and a condo in Thornhill, Ont. But that is only his latest identity. At a deportation hearing in Toronto, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) revealed the […]

Anybody working for Iran in UK must register or face jail, government announces Iran is the first foreign power to be placed on the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.

March 4, 2025 Alix Culbertson

(Sky News) Anybody who works for — or is a proxy of — the Iranian state will have to register their presence in the UK or face jail time. Security minister Dan Jarvis said Iran, including its IRGC intelligence services and the […]

Inside Trump’s Iran fear

February 9, 2025 Alex Isenstadt

(Axios) Iran’s threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life. Why […]

‘Safe haven’: Iranian Canadians urge Ottawa to weed out regime officials

January 17, 2025 Stewart Bell

(Global News) Canada must do more to avoid becoming a safe haven for members of Iran’s regime, Iranian Canadians warned in documents unsealed by the foreign interference commission Thursday. Documents released by the Hogue Commission summarize public consultations held last year with […]

Refugee board refuses to deport alleged senior Iranian official

January 15, 2025 Stewart Bell

(Global News) Canada’s refugee board has rejected the federal government’s latest attempt to deport an alleged senior member of the Iranian regime found living in the country. The Canada Border Services Agency accuses the Iranian national of holding a high-ranking position in […]

British Islamic org. calls for boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day The IHRC said it was 'morally unacceptable' that Gaza was not considered a 'genocide' alongside the Holocaust.

January 12, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) wrote to 460 town halls and educational centers asking them to boycott the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day. The IHRC, which British media has linked to Iran, said it was “morally unacceptable” that Gaza was […]

Iran’s plot to assassinate dissident artist in Germany exposed

January 4, 2025 Mojtaba Pourmohsen

(Iran International) Iran International has learned that IRGC’s Quds Force has established three assassination squads, known as the German Network, tasked with targeting Iranian dissidents abroad and Jewish citizens across Europe. One of the network’s plots involved the assassination of prominent Iranian […]

Resurfaced video shows Houston-based Muslim children pledging to be Islamic soldiers, martyrs

January 2, 2025 Joshua Klein

(Breitbart) After a New Orleans terrorist attack by an ISIS supporter from Houston, Texas, and amid intensifying warnings of Islamic terrorist threats within the U.S., a resurfaced clip showing hundreds of American children in Houston wearing traditional Islamic dress, chanting references to […]

London charity investigated over alleged links to Tehran

December 20, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Iran International) On Friday, the Times revealed that police in London and the Charity Commission are investigating Dar Alhekma Trust (DAT), a charity with alleged links to Iran. The investigation, led by a national unit focused on terrorist financing, follows a dossier […]

Two charged in connection with Iran-backed drone strike that killed 3 US troops in the Middle East

December 16, 2024 Steve LeBlanc, Eric Tucker and Tara Copp

(AP) Two men, including a dual Iranian American citizen, have been charged with conspiring to export sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack in Jordan that killed three American troops early this year and injured dozens of other […]

Daniel Khalife was a British soldier who spied for Iran and dreamed of fame

November 28, 2024 Daniel Sandford

(BBC) Just after 07:30 on 6 September last year, Skye Vokins was driving along the dual carriageway south of Wandsworth Roundabout, in London. Scarcely believing her eyes, she saw a man land on the road beneath the rear axle of a delivery […]

Another senior member of Iran’s regime caught in Canada, CBSA says

November 22, 2024 Stewart Bell and Nathaniel Dove

(Global News) Another senior member of the Iranian regime has been found living in Canada, bringing the number to 16, according to immigration officials. The Canada Border Services Agency also said it had sent one more of the alleged officials to the […]

Irwin Cotler says Iran assassination plot should be ‘wake-up call’ to world

November 22, 2024 Sean Boynton and Bryan Mullan

(Global News) Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler says an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate him should serve as a “wake-up call” for democracies around the world to combat transnational repression and violence by Iran and other hostile actors. In an interview […]

Iran allegedly planned to assassinate human-rights crusader Irwin Cotler

November 18, 2024 Robert Fife

(Globe and Mail) Iran allegedly plotted to assassinate Irwin Cotler, a noted Canadian human-rights advocate and harsh critic of the clerical regime, but the attempt on his life was recently foiled by law-enforcement authorities. According to a source, the RCMP on Oct. […]

Starmer rebukes pro-Gaza MP at PMQs over failure to mention 7 October massacre Prime minister says Ayoub Khan would be wise to start a question about 'genocide' with reference to what happened in October last year

November 13, 2024 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) Keir Starmer has criticised an MP elected on a pro-Gaza ticket for failing to reference either Hamas or the October 7 terror attack after he quizzed him in the Commons. During PMQs on Wednesday Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for […]

3 charged in Iran-linked murder plots, with one targeting Donald Trump as revenge for killing Qassem Soleimani: DOJ Two of the individuals are now in custody, the third is an IRGC 'asset.'

November 8, 2024 Mike Levine and Aaron Katersky

(ABC) Three people have been charged in a series of alleged Iran-linked murder plots, with one of them accused of trying to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, and others targeting an Iranian-American activist and two Jewish Americans living in New York, according to […]

Germany probes Iran-linked Mustafa Institute in Berlin — Bild

November 1, 2024 Benjamin Weinthal

(Iran International) Germany’s intelligence services are investigating alleged espionage activities involving 700 people linked to the Iranian state-run Al-Mustafa Institute in Berlin, according to the Bild newspaper. The report coincides with diplomatic tensions between Berlin and Tehran, following the execution of German-Iranian […]

UN official withdraws from Montreal conference featuring Canadian leader of Samidoun terror group An updated list of individuals participating in the inaugural 'Coordinating Council 4 Palestine' conference has removed Albanese's name as the keynote speaker on Saturday evening

November 1, 2024 Ari Blaff

(National Post) United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese has withdrawn from a Montreal conference featuring Charlotte Kates, the founder of Samidoun, a designated terror group. An updated list of individuals participating in the inaugural “Coordinating Council 4 Palestine” […]

Alleged spy says he ‘sabotaged operation’ to travel to Iran

October 31, 2024 Daniel Sandford

(BBC) The former British Army soldier accused of spying for Iran and escaping from prison has told a court he agreed to travel to the Middle Eastern country but “purposefully sabotaged the operation.” Giving evidence at his trial at Woolwich Crown Court, […]

Khalife read newspaper about alleged prison escape

October 23, 2024 Daniel Sandford and Andre Rhoden-Paul

(BBC) A jury has seen CCTV footage of a former soldier reading newspaper articles about his breakout from prison while allegedly on the run. Video shown at the Woolwich Crown Court trial of Daniel Khalife showed him in a west London newsagent […]

Journalist targeted in alleged murder plot: ‘I’ve been given a second life’ An Iranian general is accused of orchestrating a plot to kill Masih Alinejad.

October 23, 2024 Meredith Deliso

(ABC) A New York-based Iranian journalist who was the target of an alleged failed assassination attempt that federal prosecutors say involved an Iranian general said she has “been given a second life.” Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced criminal charges against Islamic Revolutionary […]

Federal prosecutors charge Iranian Revolutionary Guards official in assassination plot on US soil

October 22, 2024 Hannah Rabinowitz

(CNN) Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a high-ranking official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and three other people with connections to the Iranian government in an alleged plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical […]

Ex-soldier used Facebook to make first contact with Iran, court hears

October 15, 2024 Sofia Ferreira Santos and Aidan McNamee

(BBC) A former British soldier accused of spying for Iran first tried to make contact with the Iranians by sending a Facebook message, a trial has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, is on trial on charges of collecting sensitive military information for Iran […]

Iran accused of using gang crime to pursue regime opponents in Germany Spy chief says Tehran aims to repress Iranian citizens linked to Mahsa Amini protest movement

October 14, 2024 Tim Stickings

(National-UAE) Iran has turned to gang criminals in Germany to help it pursue and threaten regime critics living abroad, a spy chief said on Monday. Thomas Haldenwang, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, named Iran and Turkey as two of four […]

Swedish PM urges EU to list Iran’s IRGC as terrorist organization

October 13, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Iran International) Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Sunday called on the European Union to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. The Swedish prime minister’s remarks came shortly after reports that Tehran had enlisted criminals to carry […]

Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them Roughly a dozen national security aides from the Trump White House are feared to be [on] Iran’s hit list. It’s hard to protect them all.

October 11, 2024 John Sakellariadis

(Politico) U.S. officials are coming to a troubling realization about Iran’s repeated threats to kill Donald Trump and some of his former top generals and national security strategists: Tehran isn’t bluffing — and it isn’t giving up anytime soon. Iran has been […]

Alleged Iranian spy contacted MI6 to become double agent, court hears

October 10, 2024 Daniel Sandford

(BBC) A former British soldier accused of being a spy for Iran twice contacted MI6 to offer his services as a double agent, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, now 23, denies gathering information for Iran, compiling a list of special forces […]

Families of Canadian October 7 victims sue Iran, Hamas and Samidoun for $350 million The plaintiffs are suing under Canada's Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and several other statutes

October 9, 2024 Tyler Dawson

(National Post) The families of two Canadian-Israeli women killed in the October 7 attack on Israel are suing a wide range of organizations, arguing they’re liable for $350 million for the death of their family members. Among them is Samidoun, a Vancouver-based […]

Ex-soldier on trial accused of spying for Iran

October 8, 2024 Daniel Sandford and Suzanne Leigh

(BBC) A former British soldier accused of escaping from Wandsworth prison last year made contact with Iranian security forces before telling MI6 he wanted to work as a double agent, a trial has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, has gone on trial on […]

Iran ordered armed attacks on Israeli embassies in Sweden and Denmark

October 4, 2024 Mehran Abbasian

(Iran International) Tehran enlisted criminals to carry out armed attacks on Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen coinciding roughly with its vast missile barrage against Israel this week, a Swedish police source and another informed source told Iran International. Shots were fired […]

Dearborn memorial service mourns ‘perfect’ Hezbollah chief Nasrallah, accuses U.S. of ‘terrorism’

September 30, 2024 Joshua Klein

(Breitbart) A memorial service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Michigan featured praise for prominent terror figures as well as denunciations of the United States’ “terrorism.” On Saturday, a memorial service for slain Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah took place at the Hadi […]

Sweden says Iran was behind thousands of text messages calling for revenge over Quran burnings

September 24, 2024 Jan M. Olsen

(AP) Swedish authorities accused Iran on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages sent to people in Sweden calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023. Iran denied the accusation. According to officials in Stockholm, the […]

Federal government extends ban on senior Iranian officials back to 2003 Ottawa extends ban on senior Iranian officials

September 15, 2024 Maura Forrest

(Canadian Press) The federal government is expanding a measure that bans tens of thousands of Iranian officials from entering Canada as part of an effort to hold the regime accountable for human-rights violations. On Sunday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced that […]

Unsealed documents reveal past of Edmonton terror convict

August 8, 2024 Stewart Bell

(Global News) An Edmonton gas station employee convicted in the U.K. of a terrorism offence came to the attention of the RCMP after returning to Canada from Lebanon in 2017, records obtained by Global News reveal. The unsealed court documents show that […]

Pakistani national with ties to Iran charged in connection to a foiled assassination plot potentially targeting Trump

August 6, 2024 Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz

(CNN) The Justice Department has charged a Pakistani man who has alleged ties to the Iranian government with seeking to carry out political assassinations, a case that prompted the US government to increase security for former President Donald Trump and other officials, according to court documents […]

Iran masterminded anti-Israel protest in Canadian university

August 2, 2024 Negar Mojtahedi

(Iran International) Iran was behind the anti-Israel protests on at least one Canadian university in an attempt to undermine Western support for Israel and fuel divisiveness on Canadian soil, sources combating digital disinformation told Iran International. Cyber security company XPOZ, through the […]

Germany expels director of Iran’s Islamic Center in Berlin

August 2, 2024 Benjamin Weinthal and Ahmad Samadi

(Iran International) The German government deported the Iran-linked imam of the Islamic Center in Berlin, Nasir Niknejad, in late June, according to information obtained by Iran International’s correspondent in Berlin. According to these reports, Niknejad and his wife were detained at Berlin […]

Iran warns of ‘consequences’ after Germany closes Tehran-linked Islamic centers

July 27, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Iran International) Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani warned Germany on Saturday that its closure of Tehran-linked Islamic centers will have consequences. On Wednesday, Germany’s Interior Ministry announced the ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) and its subsidiary organizations, citing […]

France races to head off ISIS-K threat to Paris Olympics

July 19, 2024 Gabriel Stargardter and Juliette Jabkhiro

(Reuters) Tajik journalist Temur Varki received a disquieting call from Paris police in late March, days after Islamic State militants from his homeland allegedly carried out a massacre in Moscow. The two officers questioned him about France’s tiny community of immigrants from […]

CAIR honcho and ‘Squad’ donor suggests Israel behind suspected Iranian plot to assassinate Trump Nihad Awad said last year he was 'happy to see' Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel

July 17, 2024 Chuck Ross

(Free Beacon) The executive director of the anti-Israel Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pushed the baseless claim that the Jewish state is behind a suspected Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump. Nihad Awad asserted that reports of Iran’s plans to […]

Secret Service ramped up security after intel of Iran plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting

July 16, 2024 Evan Perez, Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood and Kristen Holmes

(CNN) US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN. […]

CAIR slams US intel chief for statement warning of Iranian influence in anti-Israel protests

July 12, 2024 Corey Walker

(Algemeiner) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to “clarify” her warning from earlier this week that “actors tied to Iran’s government” have encouraged and provided financial support to anti-Israel protests that have […]

France expels Iranian suspected of influence peddling for Tehran

July 3, 2024 Jérémy Tordjman and Didier Lauras

(AFP) France on Wednesday expelled an Iranian suspected of influence peddling on behalf of the Islamic republic and having links to the Revolutionary Guards ideological army, his lawyer and Iranian officials said. The deportation of Bashir Biazar, reportedly a former senior figure […]

5 more alleged senior members of Iranian regime face deportation from Canada

July 2, 2024 Stewart Bell

(Global News) Immigration officials have launched deportation proceedings against five more suspected members of the Iranian regime found in Canada, according to newly released figures. The Canada Border Services Agency has alleged they held senior positions in Iran’s repressive government and has […]

Former Iranian official detained in France for ‘links to IRGC-QF’

June 26, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Iran International) A former Iranian official who has been under “administrative detention” in France since June 3 was detained for links to the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, among other reasons, Iran International has learned. Bashir Biazar, a former director [at] Iran’s state […]

IRGC to be proscribed under Labour’s new counter-terror plan UK's Labour Party will reform previous security rules if elected into power on July 4

June 26, 2024 Neil Murphy

(National-UAE) Iran’s revolutionary guard will be proscribed as a terror group by Labour under a new three-point plan to update the UK’s counter-terror strategy. The Labour move breaks with the Conservative Party, which has held off designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps […]

Dem Sen. Patty Murray seeks millions for anti-Semitic mosque whose leader called Jews ‘despicable apes’ The Muslim Association of Puget Sound hosted speakers who praised Palestinian 'martyrs,' referred to Jews as 'filth'

June 20, 2024 Chuck Ross

(Free Beacon) Democrats’ top Senate appropriator is seeking millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for an Islamic organization in Washington state that has preached anti-Semitism, cheered Hamas’s “victory” over Israel, and hosted Palestinian activists who urge resistance against Israel “by any means […]

Canada listing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist group after years of pressure 'Our government will ensure that there is no immunity for Iran's unlawful actions,' LeBlanc says

June 19, 2024 Ashley Burke and Michael Woods

(CBC) The federal government is listing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under Canada’s Criminal Code after years of mounting pressure. Federal ministers delivered the news Wednesday afternoon, hours after CBC News first reported the government was preparing to […]