Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com TEL AVIV — Israel has determined that Iran was intensifying espionage missions in the Jewish state. The Israeli intelligence community has determined that Teheran expanded operations in Israel over the last year amid the threat of an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Officials said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Sudan has restored a militia said to be responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. After a lull of nearly a decade, the Khartoum regime, with suspected help from Iran, has reconstituted Janjaweed, a network of militias assigned to destroy rebel-held communities throughout the western province of Darfour. A […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Thousands of Iranian-sponsored Shi’ite fighters have left Syria for Iraq. Diplomatic sources said more than 3,000 members of Iranian-financed Shi’ite militias have moved from Syria to Iraq to help stop the advance of Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. The sources said the flow of Shi’ites began in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — An Iranian has been indicted on charges of spying against Israel. An Israeli court has indicted a 55-year-old Iranian on charges of espionage and helping Iranian attack plans in Israel. The indictment said Ali Mansouri, also a Belgian national, was directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “The accused […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel has announced what officials termed an Iranian plot that included the United States on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu’s talks with President Obama. The Israel Security Agency has reported the capture of a suspected spy for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. ISA said the alleged agent, a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Recently much has been made of the so-called “Arc of Shi’ism”, from Lebanon to Iran, through Syria and Iraq. I submit that what is more significant is the much broader and longer “Arc of Chaos”, from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the world, and in the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dr. Assad Homayoun and Gregory Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Iran, no less than the European Union or the United States of America, faces a series of problems which place it at a critical strategic junction. It now faces urgent challenges, the response to which will determine its viability — […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fariborz Saremi, FreePressers.com In May 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini pre-empted any attempts that the former Shah’s followers might make to overthrow the Revolutionary government by founding the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Swiftly the Guards spread their command centers around the country. One of the members of the command center in Kerman […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has begun its first combat operations in Syria, the opposition said. Opposition sources said Hizbullah fighters launched Russian-origin BM-21 Grad rockets toward civilian protesters on Jan. 16. The sources said the Hizbullah rocket attack took place near Damascus amid Iranian threats to increase intervention in Syria. “The […]