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Olympics Needs to Uphold Ban on Iran’s Discrimination The CAS ruling sends the wrong message to Tehran. The principles of the Olympic Charter and the lives of Iranian athletes ought to compel more than this. While Iran’s harassment of athletes knows no limits, its punishment must, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Monday. The CAS determined that the International Judo Federation had no “legal basis” for serving Iran an unlimited suspension over its boycott of Israeli athletes....

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Israel’s list of concerns is long, but it also views many of them as interconnected. Israel has faced Iran’s threats to develop a nuclear weapon for more than a decade. Now Tehran is once again indicating it may enrich uranium upwards of sixty percent and is moving to install advanced centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow, key nuclear facilities. While Iran’s posturing may be designed initially as leverage to get the United States to enter a new nuclear deal, as Washington once signed in 2015,...

« Open Thread 2021-014 | Main | The No Change Presidency » Why Is Biden Creating Himself An Iran Quagmire? Since he came to power President Joe Biden has done nothing to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran. The JCPOA was breached by the U.S. in 2018 when then President Trump left the deal and renewed a maximum pressure sanction campaign against Iran. For over a year Iran stuck to its commitment under the deal. It then began to gradually exceed some of the technical limits of the deal. Thos...

A total of 17 cases attributed to the UK strain have been detected, mostly across Qazvin province, as other areas are also grappling with a new peak in overall COVID-19 infections and mortalities.

Iran’s military is switching from unconventional warfare to more conventional weapons.

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Another day, another US bomber flight over the Persian Gulf Print this article In what is becoming a recurring theme, U.S. Central Command on Wednesday morning announced a B-52 presence flight in the Persian Gulf. Its another unnecessary and wasteful deployment. According to the Wall Street Journal, this B-52 mission is the sixth since last fall, when concerns began bubbling up in the Trump administration about Iran possibly using the anniversary of Iranian Quds Force Gen. Qassem Soleimani’...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement has been battling a Saudi-led military coalition since 2015. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday Congress would be notified of his intent to designate the movement as a foreign terrorist organization, in what would be one of the final acts of the outgoing Trump administration before Joe Biden's inauguration as president on Jan. 20.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement has been battling a Saudi-led military coalition since 2015. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday Congress would be notified of his intent to designate the movement as a foreign terrorist organization, in what would be one...