Iran will destroy the United States and its allies if they cross Tehran's red lines, the head of the country's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in an address to a pro-government rally denouncing last week's violent protests over the rise in fuel prices. Addressing thousands of demonstrators in the capital on Monday, General Hossein Salami accused the US, the United Kingdom, Israel and Saudi Arabia of stoking the unrest, in which dozens were killed by Iran's security forces. "We…

World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has released an ambitious plan for online governance designed to counteract the growing prevalence of misinformation, data surveillance and censorship. The Contract for the Web, created by Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation, seeks commitments from governments and the industry to make and keep knowledge freely available. "If we don't act now - and act together - to prevent the web being misused by those who want to exploit, divide and undermine, we are at risk of squandering"…

Thousands of young and working-class Iranians took to the streets on Nov. 15 after gasoline price hikes of at least 50% were announced. By REUTERS  NOVEMBER 25, 2019 20:31 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the crowd of people in Yazd, Iran (photo credit: REUTERS) DUBAI - Thousands of supporters of Iran's clerical establishment rallied in Tehran on Monday, accusing the United States and Israel of instigating the most violent anti-government protests in at least a decade in Iran.Amnesty International said…

Iran has promised to severely punish "mercenaries" arrested over nationwide street protests sparked by a fuel-price rise as much of the country came back online after a week-long internet blackout. A senior commander of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday urged the country's judiciary to mete out harsh sentences to those involved in the deadly demonstrations. "We caught all the mercenaries who openly confessed they were doing mercenary work for America and, God willing, the judicial system of the…

I wanted to take the first flight to Tehran, but I am unable to travel to Iran.By Mehrnaz SamimiMs. Samimi is a journalist and simultaneous interpreter.Nov. 23, 2019Credit...Ping ZhuOne evening in May I got a call from my 83-year-old father in Iran. He was suffering from delirium and being treated at an excellent hospital in Lavasan, an upscale suburb in northern Tehran.“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has infiltrated the I.C.U. — they’re going to execute me!” he said. “Call your…

Fiona Hill’s warnings challenge Trump to keep America safe from Moscow’s efforts to destabilize democracy and snare influence around the globe. By Jeffrey A. StaceyDr. Stacey is a former State Department official and is working on a book titled “Rise of the East, End of the West?”Nov. 23, 2019Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council senior director, testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York TimesOver the last several weeks, each impeachment inquiry witness put the Trump…

In October 2019, Turkey launched a military operation in northeast Syria to drive the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) back from its border. Dubbed Operation Peace Spring, Turkey's push was also aimed at establishing a "safe zone" stretching at least 30km (19 miles) into Syria to resettle some of the 3.6 million refugees it currently hosts. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Turkish Minister of Defence Hulusi Akar discusses the operation in northeast Syria, Turkey's cooperation with Russia and Iran and Ankara's strained relations with the United…

Iranian TV program airs animated video describing Iranian missiles and threatening Israel, American military bases. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF IRINN TV, an Iranian television station, aired animated video called “The Rise of the Missiles,” which described several types of Iranian missiles in detail, including their capacity to attack Israel. The narrator Fateh-110 “Iran’s most accurate missile” and discussed Iran’s overall missile capabilities on November 12, according to MEMRI. The cartoon’s narrator claimed that many of the Fateh-110s went to Hezbollah…