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19792019The Iranian Regime Terrorism Timeline<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Since its founding in 1979, the Iranian regime has employed terrorism as a key instrument to advance its interests and strike at its domestic and foreign enemies. As a result, the U.S. government labels the Islamic Republic of Iran the “most active state sponsor of terrorism.” The U.S. has designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/lebanon-us-embassy-bombing-1983-1.jpg<a href="http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/276/386/1/S2763861/slug/l/lebanon-us-embassy-bombing-1983-1.jpg">Lebanon U.S. Embassy Bombing</a>
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11/04/197901/20/1981Iran Hostage Crisis<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Only months after the Islamic Revolution, a radical group of Iranian students stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, taking <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/15/world/meast/iran-hostage-crisis-fast-facts/">66 Americans hostage, 52 of which were held for 444 days.</a> The hostages were beaten, placed in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5m0kyPc18l4C&q=528#v=snippet&q=solitary%20confinement&f=false">solitary confinement</a> for extended periods of time, regularly forced to have their <a href=" <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5m0kyPc18l4C&q=528#v=snippet&q=hands%20bound&f=false”>hands bound</a>, and <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5m0kyPc18l4C&q=528#v=onepage&q=threatened%20repeatedly%20with%20execution&f=false">"threatened repeatedly with execution."</a> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">On January 20, 1981,</a> the day of Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration, the remaining 52 hostages were released and returned to the U.S.</p>http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/iran_hostages.jpgBound American hostages following the storming of the American Embassy in Tehran
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19821992Lebanon Hostage Crisis<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Spanning a full decade, the Lebanon Hostage Crisis refers to systematic abductions of foreign nationals in Lebanon by the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9sUN2_l3_Q4C&dq=The+Politics+of+the+Western+Hostage+Crisis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3f2lUsLPHenJsQTqkYLADA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA">Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.</a> Of the total 96 foreign nationals abducted, 25 U.S. citizens were kidnapped, making Americans the most targeted national group. A number of hostages died in captivity as a result of inadequate medical care, torture, or execution. During the crisis, some victims spent <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">years in captivity,</a> while others, including CIA Station Chief William Buckley, were <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/07/11/engaging-hezbollah-or-hezbollah-controlled-lebanon/">tortured and killed.</a> Among those held captive was American University of Beirut President David S. Dodge, who was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/world/middleeast/31dodge.html">held for a full year</a> in Lebanon and Iran, and American journalist Terry Anderson, who was abducted and held in captivity <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/05/world/the-last-us-hostage-anderson-last-us-hostage-is-freed-by-captors-in-beirut.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">for almost seven years.</a></p>http://unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/themes/uani/images/buckley-new.jpgCIA Station Chief William Buckley was tortured and killed during the Lebanon Hostage Crisis.
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04/18/198304/18/1983U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut<p style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">63 people, including 17 Americans</a>, were killed and more than 100 injured when a suicide bomber rammed a truck carrying <a href="http://www.beirut-memorial.org/history/embassy.html">2,000 pounds of explosives</a> into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The bombing resulted in the killing of "<a href="http://www.beirut-memorial.org/history/embassy.html">the entire U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Middle East contingent</a>." The attack, <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2003-09-12/news/25458154_1_car-bombing-beirut-bombing-islamic-republic">directed by Hezbollah and financed by Iran</a>, "<a href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/be_prepared.htm">initiated the modern era of suicide bombings</a>.”</p>http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/beirut-bombing.jpgThe devastated remains of the U.S. Embassy.
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10/23/198310/23/1983Beirut Barracks Bombings<p style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">241 U.S. marines were killed and over 100 wounded</a> when an <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/23/families-beirut-bomb-victims-mark-30th-anniversary-first-major-terrorist-attack/">Iranian suicide bomber</a> drove a truck carrying the equivalent of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/beirut-barracks-attack-remembered/">15,000-21,000 pounds of TNT</a> into the U.S. Marine Barracks at Beirut International Airport. Causing the "<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/beirut-barracks-attack-remembered/">largest non-nuclear explosion that had ever been detonated on the face of the Earth</a>," the bombing was the “<a href="http://nation.time.com/2013/10/23/top-marine-to-honor-1983-beirut-bombing-victims/">deadliest terrorist attack on Americans before 9/11</a>.” At the same time, a separate suicide truck bomb destroyed a building housing French soldiers, <a href="http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20131024-france-remembers-58-soldiers-killed-drakkar-beirut">killing 58 French paratroopers</a>. The Marines residing in the U.S. barracks had been sent to Lebanon “<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">as part of a multinational force to help separate the warring Lebanese factions</a>” in the ongoing civil war.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/annex.jpgAmerican soldiers being pulled from the rubble of the marine barracks
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12/12/198312/12/1983U.S. Embassy Bombing in Kuwait<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Part of a series of attacks aimed at “<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PnSsF-hADhUC&lpg=PP1&dq=sacred%20rage&pg=PA112#v=onepage&q=sacred%20rage&f=false">six key foreign and Kuwaiti installations</a>,” the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Kuwait left <a href="http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1987/Car-Bomb-Kills-2-in-Kuwait/id-f7aedfd76aad52e45317c92b7655686a">five victims dead and eighty-six</a> injured. Other targets included “<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">the French embassy, the control tower at the airport, the country's main oil refinery, and a residential area for employees of the American corporation Raytheon</a>.” The attack was carried out by "<a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/29-years-later-echoes-of-kuwait-17">Hezbollah and operatives of the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite group Da'wa</a>."</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/kuwait.jpgRuins of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.
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09/20/198409/20/1984Bombing of U.S. Embassy Annex in East Beirut<p style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">24 people were killed</a> when a van carrying <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PnSsF-hADhUC&lpg=PP1&dq=sacred%20rage&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false">three thousand pounds</a> of explosives detonated outside the U.S. Embassy annex in East Beirut. Among those killed were <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/21/world/23-die-including-2-americans-terrorist-car-bomb-attack-us-embassy-beirut-blast.html?pagewanted=all">two Americans</a>: 33-year-old Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth V. Welch and 30-year-old Petty Officer First Class Michael Ray Wagner. The CIA noted at the time that that "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=6WarAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=hezbollah%20matthew%20levitt&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false">an overwhelming body of circumstantial evidence points to Hizballah, operating with Iranian support under the cover name of Islamic Jihad</a>."</p>http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/tucson.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/b1/ab1995f0-fe00-53dc-9149-86e4bde6c63e/50552280773c9.preview-620.jpgThe wrecked U.S. Embassy annex.
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06/14/198506/14/1985Hijacking of TWA Flight 847<p style="font-size: 9pt;">On the morning of June 14, 1985, members of Iran-backed Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847 in order to gain leverage in their demands for “<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dLfddQVmof4C&q=115#v=snippet&q=115&f=false">the release of Shia prisoners held in Kuwait, Israel, and Spain</a>.” Iran played a central role in both the “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hizballah-Lebanon-Politics-Western-Hostage/dp/0312164912">supervision and planning of the incident</a>.” The plane, carrying <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1985-07-01/news/mn-10010_1_hijackers-release">153 passengers</a> landed in Beirut and then Algiers, where a number of hostages were released. After landing in Beirut for a second time, passenger Robert Dean Stethem, a U.S. navy diver, “<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html">was shot and his body dumped on the airport tarmac</a>." Although Israel never admitted to a deal, the remaining 39 TWA hostages were freed June 30, and the release of 766 Shia prisoners detained by Israel began July 1.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/twa1.jpgA hijacker holding a gun to the head of pilot John Testrake.
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08/198704/1988Saudi Hezbollah Attacks Petroleum Facilities<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The Saudi branch of Hezbollah (Hezbollah al-Hejaz) was founded in May 1987, and shortly thereafter, Iran set about recruiting radicalized Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich and heavily Shi’a Eastern Province to carry out attacks. With the help of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and embedded agents within Saudi petroleum facilities, <a href="https://www.aei.org/publication/saudi-arabias-forgotten-shiite-spring/">Hezbollah al-Hejaz embarked upon a series of high-profile attacks targeting Saudi oil interests between August 1987 and March 1988</a>. In August 1987, Hezbollah al-Hejaz bombed a gas facility in Ras al-Juaymah. In March 1988, the organization <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iranian-and-hezbollah-threats-to-saudi-arabia-past-precedents">bombed a petrochemical plant in Jubail and a refinery in Ras Tanura</a>, while a bomb planted in Ras al-Juaymah failed to detonate. After the attacks, Saudi authorities captured three Hezbollah al-Hejaz operatives following a standoff in which several policemen were wounded or killed. The operatives were publicly executed in September 1988.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/1)%2087-88%20Saudi%20Hezbollah%20Petro%20Facilities.jpg<a href="http://www.fluor.com/projects/sadaf-petrochemical-modular-construction">Hezbollah al-Hejaz bombed a Saudi petrochemical plant in Jubail.</a>
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10/198802/1990Saudi Hezbollah Assassination Campaign<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The Saudi branch of Hezbollah (Hezbollah al-Hejaz) vowed retaliation against Saudi officials after three of its operatives were executed in September 1988, and subsequently embarked on an assassination campaign against Saudi diplomats abroad. In October 1988, <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iranian-and-hezbollah-threats-to-saudi-arabia-past-precedents">Hezbollah al-Hejaz murdered the second secretary at the Saudi embassy in Turkey</a>. In December 1988, the second secretary at the Saudi mission in Pakistan survived an assassination attempt by the group. In January, Hezbollah al-Hejaz assassinated the third secretary at the Saudi embassy in Thailand outside his home. In February 1990, the group killed an additional four Saudi diplomats serving in Thailand.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/2%29%20Hezbollah%20Hejaz.jpg<a href="http://arabia2day.com/featured/the-history-of-hizbullah-al-hijaz/">Hezbollah al-Hejaz targeted Saudi diplomats for assassination in Ankara, Karachi, and Bangkok.</a>
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07/13/198907/13/1989Assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou<p style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2009/7/irankurdistan487.htm">Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou</a>, then Secretary-General of Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), was killed with two associates in Vienna, where he was secretly meeting with envoys sent by then Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

<br><br>Dispatched diplomat-terrorists of the Iranian Islamic regime were suspected of direct involvement at the time. Austrian sources have since <a href="http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/1212/ahmadinejad-and-a-murder-in-vienna-an-interview-with-witness-d">connected current Iranian President</a> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the assassination through weapons sales.</p>		http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/abdul.PNGScene of the assassination of Kurdish leader Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou.
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08/08/199108/08/1991Assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Regime operatives murdered democratic secular politician <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/08/a-darker-horizon-the-assassination-of-shapour-bakhtiar.html">Shapour Bakhtiar</a>, who was the last Iranian prime minister prior to the Islamic Revolution.

<br><br>In a botched attempt on Bakhtiar’s life in Paris suburb in 1980, his assailants killed a French policeman and a female neighbor.</p>		http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/france2.jpgAssassinated democratic secular politician Shapour Bakhtiar.
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03/17/199203/17/19921992 Israeli Embassy Bombing in Buenos Aires<p style="font-size: 9pt;">In 1992, Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah perpetrated a suicide truck bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in Argentina, which <a href="http://www.jta.org/2013/03/19/news-opinion/world/buenos-aires-jewish-community-marks-embassy-bombing">killed 29 people and injured 242 others</a>, the great majority of which were civilian bystanders in the vicinity of the embassy.</p>http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/argentina1.jpgScene of the attack on the Israeli embassy.
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09/17/199209/17/1992Mykonos Killings<p style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://articles.cnn.com/1997-04-10/world/9704_10_germany.iran_1_judge-frithjof-kubsch-kazem-darabi-iranian-state?_s=PM:WORLD">4 Iranian Kurds killed at the Mykonos Café</a>, including the leader of the KDPI, Dr. Mohammad Sadegh (Saeid) Sharafkandi.

<br><br>German courts linked the Iranian government and Minister of Intelligence Ali Fallahian to the assassination.</p>		https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Mykonos_killings.jpgScene of the assassination of the Iranian Kurdish leaders at the Mykonos restaurant.
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07/18/199407/18/1994AMIA Bombing<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Iran was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22712297">directly responsible</a> for the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires, which <a href="http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/136337/amia-marked-19th-anniversary-of-attack-ratified-justice-claims-antiiran-stance">killed 85 and injured 300</a>. The AMIA attack remains the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/03/iran-minister-argentina-attack">deadliest terrorist attack</a> in Argentina’s history. <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg747.aspx">Ahmad Vahidi</a>, the former Iranian Defense Minister and IRGC Commander, is <a href="http://www.interpol.int/Wanted-Persons/%28wanted_id%29/2007-49957">wanted by INTERPOL</a> for his lead role in the bombing. Successive Argentine governments have sought to bring to justice the perpetrators of these unprovoked terrorist acts on Argentine soil. In 2006, an Argentine court “declared former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others <a href="http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2006/Argentine-Judge-Ex-Iran-Leader-Fugitive/id-62953557880db95536267954505054f4">fugitives from justice</a> in Argentina” for their role in the AMIA bombing.</p>http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/argentina2.jpgRescue workers searching through the rubble of the leveled AMIA community center.
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06/25/199606/25/1996Khobar Towers Bombing<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The bombing of Khobar Towers, a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia, left <a href="http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/khobar/khobar_fbi.htm">nineteen Americans dead and 372 injured</a>. The attackers detonated a parked truck laden with the equivalent of <a href="https://www.fas.org/irp/threat/khobar_dod/report.html">3,000-8,000</a> pounds of explosives in the Khobar Towers parking lot. The resulting explosion “<a href="http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/khobar/khobar_fbi.htm">sheared the face off of Building 131, an eight-story structure which housed about 100 U.S. Air Force personnel</a>.” <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2001/06/khobar.html">14 members of the Iran-backed Saudi branch of Hezbollah</a> have been held responsible for the attack.</p>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/AnschalgInZahran1996_KhobarTower.jpgRuins of the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex.
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10/07/200010/07/2000Hezbollah Cross-Border Raid<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Lebanese Hezbollah forces <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3685705,00.html">abducted three Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers</a> patrolling on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon. The Hezbollah cell planted a powerful bomb along the border fence which exploded as their vehicle passed by, breaching a gate and severely wounding three IDF soldiers inside the patrol vehicle. The Hezbollah members illegally crossed into Israel and abducted the soldiers, Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Souad, and subsequently hid them deep in Lebanese territory. Hezbollah refused to release any information on the soldiers’ conditions during their captivity, but the soldiers were apparently killed during or shortly after their abduction. In 2004, Israel agreed to a prisoner swap in which it released 400 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of the soldiers’ bodies.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/3)%20Hezbollah%202000.jpg<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-10814698">Hezbollah fighters celebrate Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000.</a>
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20032011Support for Insurgents in the Iraq War<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iran undermined U.S. operations by "<a href="http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/reports/IraqReport06.pdf">consistently [supplying] weapons, its own advisors, and Lebanese Hezbollah advisors to multiple residence groups in Iraq, both Sunni and Shia</a>,” which targeted Coalition Forces. For the U.S., “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/world/middleeast/23iran.html">concern [revolved] around Iran’s role in arming and assisting Shiite militias</a>.” In Iraq, the "<a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/war/ieds-continue-to-kill-and-maim-us-troops-despite-multibillion-dollar-effort/1253728">the top killer of U.S. troops</a>” were IEDs (improvised explosive devices), which were primarily supplied by Iran. In total, Iran’s support for Iraqi insurgents led to the death of thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. In 2010, U.S. ambassador to Iraq James Jeffery stated, "<a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/08/27/117757.html">Up to a quarter [4,400] of the American casualties and some of the more horrific incidents in which Americans were kidnapped ... can be traced without doubt to these Iranian groups</a>."</p>http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/iraq1-.jpgIranian-manufactured improvised-explosive devices (IEDs), the top killer of American troops in Iraq, seized near the Iran-Iraq border.
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02/14/200502/14/2005Assassination of Rafik Hariri<p style="font-size: 9pt;">A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/rafik-hariri-assassination-trial-hezbollah-suspects">massive bomb targeting the armed convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri</a>, an outspoken critic of Syria’s military presence in Lebanon, exploded in downtown Beirut, killing Hariri and 22 others, and wounding hundreds more. The United Nations established a Special Tribunal on Lebanon following the attack to determine culpability. In 2011, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-hezbollah-connection.html">the tribunal indicted five Hezbollah members including Mustafa Badreddine</a>, a prominent commander linked to the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut. The alleged Hezbollah conspirators were tried in absentia for the bombing in 2014. The tribunal identified the alleged Hezbollah co-conspirators by "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander?currentPage=all">matching disposable cell phones used at the time of the murder with other phones that belonged to the suspects</a>.” According to one of the senior investigators, “Our theory of the case was that Hezbollah pulled the trigger, but could not and would not have done so without the blessing and logistical support from both Syria and Iran."</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/4)%202005%20Hariri%20Assassination%20(AP).jpg<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6999256/ns/world_news/t/bomb-under-road-may-have-killed-hariri/">The massive crater caused by the bomb which killed former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri and 22 others.</a>
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20062014Support for the Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Iranian support for the Taliban against U.S. troops in Afghanistan has been ongoing <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/08/state_department_ira.php">since at least 2006</a>. According to a RAND report, "<a href="http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/2011/RAND_OP322.pdf">although Iran has traditionally backed Tajik and Shi'a groups opposed to the Taliban, its enmity with the United States and tensions over the nuclear program… led it to provide measured support to the Taliban</a>." According to the Treasury Department, “<a href="http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/hp644.aspx">since at least 2006, Iran has arranged frequent shipments of small arms and associated ammunition, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107 mm rockets, plastic explosives, and probably man-portable defense systems to the Taliban</a>." Through “Qods force material support,” the report states “we believe Iran is seeking to inflict casualties on U.S. and NATO forces.” In 2010, multiple media sources reported Iran was “<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39014669/#.UqnzomRDvIw">paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier they kill in Afghanistan</a>.” Over a six-month period in 2010, one “Taliban treasurer” claimed to have collected “<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39014669/#.UqnzomRDvIw">more than $77,000 from [an Iranian firm in Kabul]</a>” as payment for killing Americans.</p>http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/taliban_0.jpgIn 2011, British troops intercepted an Iranian arms shipments to the Taliban of 122mm rockets.
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07/12/200607/12/2006Hezbollah Catalyzes War with Israel<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Iran’s terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071200262.html">infiltrated Israel and conducted a raid in which three Israeli soldiers were killed and two others captured</a>. Five additional IDF soldiers were killed as they pursued the Hezbollah terrorists into Israel. The brazen Hezbollah raid was the precipitating cause of a month-long conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, during which the terrorist group indiscriminately launched thousands of rockets targeting Israeli population centers. Two years after the conflict, Israel released four Hezbollah prisoners and notorious terrorist Samir Kuntar in exchange for the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, the IDF soldiers captured in the 2006 cross-border raid.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/5)%202006%20Hezbollah%20Catalyzes%20war%20(AFP).jpg<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7381389.stm/">Hezbollah fired thousands of Katyusha rockets into Israel from Southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict.</a>
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10/201110/20112011 Iran Assassination Plot<p style="font-size: 9pt;">U.S. agents <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/October/11-ag-1339.html">disrupted</a> an <a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/10/11/complaint.amended.pdf">assassination plot allegedly</a> directed by the Iranian government tatgeting Saudi Arabia’s then-ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir. The FBI’s investigation into the plot (code named Operation Red Coalition) <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/tehrans-unlikely-assassins">discovered</a> that Mansoor Arbabsiar, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Gholam Shakuri, an IRGC-QF commander, were planning to kill al-Jubeir with a bomb at a restaurant. They also planned to subsequently bomb both the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington D.C. and were also considering carrying out attacks in Buenos Aires. Arbabsiar was <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-11/arbabsiar-held-without-bail-in-alleged-plot-to-kill-envoy.html">arrested</a> on September 29, 2011 at JFK International Airport, <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/October/11-ag-1339.html">confessing</a> to the plot and receiving a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/17/justice/new-york-saudi-assassination-plot/index.html">25-year prison sentence</a>, while Shakuri remains uncaptured.</p>http://a.abcnews.com/images/Blotter/ht_manssor_arbabsiar_terrorist_thg_111011_wg.jpgManssor Arbabsiar, one of two Iranian nationals charged in connection with the plot. The other, Gholam Shakuri, is still at large.
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02/13/201202/14/2012Israeli Diplomat Attacks<p style="font-size: 9pt;">In New Delhi, India, the wife of the Israeli defense attaché and her driver were injured after a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/17/iran-nuclear-revenge-bomb-plot">device attached to their car exploded</a>. The Delhi Police <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Cops-name-Iran-military-arm-for-attack-on-Israeli-diplomat/articleshow/15263013.cms">concluded</a> that the suspects were members of the IRGC. A similar device was defused in Tbilisi, Georgia after being discovered on the underside of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/14/israel-accuses-iran-of-attacks?intcmp=239">an Israeli diplomat’s car</a>. The following day, three Iranian men accidentally detonated <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/16/bangkok-bombers-plotting-attack-israeli-diplomats">a cache of explosives</a> in Bangkok, Thailand. The explosives were intended to be used to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/16/bangkok-bombers-plotting-attack-israeli-diplomats">assassinate Israeli diplomats</a>. A multinational investigation has produced the “<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/17/iran-bomb-plot-israel-nuclear-talks">clearest evidence yet that Iran was involved</a>” in all three plots.</p>http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/13/article-2100514-11B8AD5A000005DC-234_634x408.jpgIsraeli embassy vehicle burning after an explosive device attached to the car detonated.
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03/201203/2012Azerbaijan Terror Plot<p style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/28/us-officials-in-azerbaijan-reportedly-targeted-for-assassination-in-iran-linked/">U.S. and Israeli officials</a> were among those targeted for assassination by a group of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/14/22-arrested-in-azerbaijan-in-plot-on-us-israeli-embassies/">IRGC-linked terrorists</a> arrested in Baku, Azerbaijan.

<br><br>According to <i><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-officials-among-the-targets-of-iran-linked-assassination-plots/2012/05/27/gJQAHlAOvU_story.html">The Washington Post</a></i>, “U.S. and Middle Eastern officials now see the attempts as part of a broader campaign by Iran-linked operatives to kill foreign diplomats in at least seven countries over a span of 13 months.”</p>		https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.pngWeapons and ammunition seized from the IRGC-linked terrorist cell in Azerbaijan.
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06/19/201206/19/2012Iranians Arrested in Kenya with Large Cache of Explosives<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Two Iranian nationals, allegedly <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/kenya-sentences-2-iranian-would-be-bombers-to-life/">members of the IRGC-Quds Force</a>, were arrested by Kenyan security forces on June 19, and subsequently led the authorities to a cache of RDX, a powerful explosive, large enough to topple a tall building. Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi were charged with possession of explosives “<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167999/Two-Iranians-elite-Revolutionary-Guard-unit-arrested-Kenya-plotting-attack-U-S--Israeli-British-targets.html">in circumstances that indicated they were armed with the intent to commit a felony, namely, acts intended to cause grievous harm</a>.” Kenyan officials believed the Iranians intended to target American, British, Israeli or Saudi Arabian interests within Kenya. The officials also alleged that the advanced explosives and the men’s links to the Quds Force indicated that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167999/Two-Iranians-elite-Revolutionary-Guard-unit-arrested-Kenya-plotting-attack-U-S--Israeli-British-targets.html">Iranians at the highest levels of government likely had knowledge of the plot</a>. In May 2013, both men were <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/kenya-sentences-2-iranian-would-be-bombers-to-life/">convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets and sentenced to life in prison</a>.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/6%29%20Kenya%202012%20Plot%20%28AP%20-%20Khalil%20Senosi%29.jpg<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/kenyan-court-convicts-iranians-of-terror-plot/">Iranian nationals Sayed Mansour Mousavi, center, and Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad, right in Kenyan court.</a>
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07/201207/2012Cyprus Arrests Hezbollah Operative<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Cypriot authorities <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/middleeast/hezbollah-courier-guilty-of-role-in-cyprus-terror-plot.html">arrested a dual Lebanese-Swedish citizen and member of Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah’s military wing for his role surveilling potential targets</a> in a plot to attack Israeli tourists. Hossam Taleb Yaacoub admitted to <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/02/details_emerge_on_hezbollah_me.php">recording flight arrivals and bus routes of Israeli tourists</a> and to acting as a courier for Hezbollah within the European Union, making usage of his EU citizenship. Yaacoub told Cypriot investigators, “I was just collecting information about the Jews. … This is what my organization is doing, everywhere in the world.” In March 2013, Yaacoub was <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Cyprus-jails-Hezbollah-man-for-plotting-to-kill-Israelis-308000">sentenced to four years in prison</a>. His illicit activities on Hezbollah’s behalf played a role in the EU’s decision to designate Hezbollah’s military wing as a terrorist organization.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/7%29%202012%20Cyprus%20Hezbollah%20Arrest%20%28AP-Pavlos%20Vrionides%29.jpg<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/middleeast/hezbollah-courier-guilty-of-role-in-cyprus-terror-plot.html">Hezbollah operative Hossam Taleb Yaacoub arrested by Cypriot authorities.</a>
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07/18/201207/18/2012Bulgaria Bus Bombing<p style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/explosion-rocks-israeli-tour-bus-in-bulgaria/">A suicide bomber destroyed an Israeli tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria</a>, killing the bus driver and five Israelis, and wounding more than 30 others.

<br><br>In an investigation, the Bulgarian government <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324445904578284304081844348">found Hezbollah and its patron Iran responsible for the attack</a>.</p>		http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1117534.1342704131!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/article-suicide-bomber-bus.jpgThe Israeli tour bus destroyed by the suicide bomb attack in Bulgaria.
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05/201305/2013Nigeria Unearths Hezbollah Weapons Cache<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Nigerian authorities <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/nigeria-to-slap-hezbollah-men-with-terror-charge/">charged three Lebanese members of the Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah with terrorism and weapons smuggling</a> after discovering a large weapons cache in the town of Kano. Among the weapons uncovered were antitank weapons, rocket-propelled guns, and antitank/antipersonnel mines. "<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/05/201353175149437728.html">The arms and ammunition were targeted at facilities of Israel and Western interest in Nigeria</a>," according to a Nigerian military spokesman.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/8%29%20Nigeria-%20Hezbollah%20Arms%20Cache%20%28Nigerian%20Army%20Facebook%29.jpg<a href="http://www.jta.org/2013/05/31/news-opinion/world/three-hezbollah-operatives-caught-with-weapons-in-nigeria">Nigerian authorities uncovered a large Hezbollah weapons cache in Kano</a>.
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04/201404/2014Thailand Foils Hezbollah Plot to Attack Israeli Tourists<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Thai officials <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/405420/terror-suspect-admits-israeli-attack-plan">arrested</a> a Hezbollah cell <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4511132,00.html">consisting</a> of a French-Lebanese national Daoud Farhat and a Lebanese-Filipino national Youssef Ayad planning an attack on Israeli tourists visiting Bangkok for Passover. The attack was supposed to take place on the <a href="http://time.com/67985/bangkok-arrests-possible-hizballah-setback/">Khao San road</a>, the city’s main tourist hub popular with young Israeli travelers. The two men were thought to be part of a larger <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.586220">nine-member Hezbollah cell</a> operating in Thailand.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/9%29%202014%20Thai%20Suspects%20%28Bangkok%20Post%29.jpeg<a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/405338/">Hezbollah members Daoud Farhat and Youssef Ayad plotted to attack Israeli tourists in Thailand</a>.
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10/201410/2014Peru Arrests Hezbollah Operative<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Peruvian anti-terror police <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-operative-targeted-jews-israelis-in-peru/">arrested a Lebanese citizen</a> accused of being an operative of Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah and plotting attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets. Authorities discovered TNT, detonators, and flammable materials at his residence and found that he had been gathering intelligence on Jewish organizations and locations popular among Israeli hikers.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/10%29%20Peru%20Hezbollah%20Plot%20%28Business%20Insider%29.jpg<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/were-seeing-little-alerts-of-irans-growing-presence-in-latin-america-2015-4">Hezbollah operative Muhammad Ghaleb Hamdar stands trial in Peru</a>.
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03/15/201503/15/2015Bahrain Seizes Bomb-Making Equipment Aboard Bus from Iraq<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Bahraini officials <a href="http://news.trust.org/item/20150316135718-rm0lj">seized bomb-making equipment being smuggled from Iraq aboard a passenger bus</a> for use in attacks in the island kingdom. During a routine search of the bus, authorities found 140 detonators, 41 electrical circuits, a remote control device, and some cell phones hidden inside electrical appliances. The equipment was found in the bag of a juvenile passenger from Iraq who had been instructed by a wanted terrorist to deliver it to the predominantly Shiite village of Sitra – in northern Bahrain – to be used in terror attacks.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/11%29%20March%202015%20Bahrain%20Bus.jpg<a href="http://www.bahrainmirror.com/en/news/22915.html">Bahraini authorities discovered bomb-making materials smuggled aboard a passenger bus from Iraq</a>.
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05/201505/2015Cyprus Foils Hezbollah Attack on Israeli Interests<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Cypriot authorities <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Cyprus-arrest-of-Hezbollah-man-uncovered-large-scale-Iranian-terror-plot-across-Europe-404531">arrested a 26 year-old Lebanese-Canadian dual national</a> after finding nearly 8.5 tons of ammonium nitrate, an explosive material, in his basement. According to Cypriot judicial authorities, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/cyprus-sentences-hezbollah-operative-to-six-years-on-bomb-charges/">Hussein Bassam Abdallah was a member of Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah’s military wing</a> tasked with safe-keeping the explosive material, which was intended to be used in targeting Israeli interests on the island. Israeli security officials briefed on his arrest said the plot offers “<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Cyprus-arrest-of-Hezbollah-man-uncovered-large-scale-Iranian-terror-plot-across-Europe-404531">further evidence of deep Iranian involvement in international terrorism</a>. … Hezbollah, the contractor, is funded by Iran, and its operatives are trained by Iranian experts. In this case, like in other cases, the head is in Tehran, the orchestration is Iranian, the funding is Iranian and the one that carries it out is Hezbollah.” On June 29, 2015, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/cyprus-sentences-hezbollah-operative-to-six-years-on-bomb-charges/">Abdallah was sentenced to six years in Cypriot prison</a>.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/12%29%202015%20Cyprus%20Explosives%20Arrest%20%28AP%20-%20Petros%20Karadjias%29.jpg<a href="http://newsok.com/article/feed/847334">Police cordon around a house in Larnaca, Cyprus where authorities discovered several tons of ammonium nitrate</a>.
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06/201506/2015Bahraini Officials Discover Warehouse with Explosives<p style="font-size: 9pt;">As part of the investigation into the explosives smuggled aboard a passenger bus in March 2015, Bahraini officials <a href="http://bna.bh/portal/en/news/674327">discovered</a> a warehouse in the village of Dar Kulaib containing a large quantity of high-quality explosives and bomb-making materials. The warehouse contained 222kg of TNT, some of which was not locally manufactured. The Bahraini investigation alleged that Murtadha Majeed Ramadhan al-Sindi, a Bahraini fugitive in Iran working with the IRGC, and Qassem Abdullah Ali, another Bahraini fugitive in Iran, formed a and recruited a terror cell to attack Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. This included providing military training to cell-members, smuggling explosives, and traveling to Iran and Iraq on explosives training, fire-arms usage, and scuba diving to plant explosives offshore. The training in Iraq was carried out by Kata’ib Hezbollah and the IRGC, who also provided the cell with logistical and financial support.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/13%29%20June%202015%20Bahrain%20Explosives%20%28Bahrain%20Ministry%20of%20Interior%29.jpg<a href="http://www.policemc.gov.bh/en/news/ministry/42571">Bahraini authorities discovered a large quantity of explosives and bomb-making materials in an IRGC-linked warehouse in Dar Kulaib</a>.
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08/201508/2015Kuwait Foils Hezbollah-Linked Terror Plot, Seizes Arms Cache<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Kuwaiti officials <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/kuwait-uncovers-terror-cell-giant-arms-cache-150814064752900.html">foiled</a> a plot by Hezbollah to carry out attacks in the country, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/kuwait-charges-terror-cell-tied-iran-hezbollah-150901134517950.html">planned by 25 of its own nationals</a> and 1 Iranian. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/world/middleeast/kuwait-26-accused-of-iran-linked-plot.html">Authorities</a> seized a huge arms cache they say was smuggled from Iraq and hidden underneath houses close to the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border. In Kuwait’s Al-Abdali area, they <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/kuwait-busts-terror-plot-linked-to-hezbollah-seizes-arms-cache-1.1566381">discovered</a> a total of 42,000 lbs. of ammunition, 144 kg of explosives – <a href="http://mtv.com.lb/news/local/510869/kuwait_foils_hezbollah_terror_plot">including C4 explosives</a> – 68 weapons, and 204 grenades. The cell was charged with plotting with Iran and Hezbollah <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kuwait-security-arms-idUSKCN0R142Y20150901">to destabilize</a> Kuwait’s national security.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/14%29%20August%202015%20Kuwait%20Arms%20Cache%20%28Kuwait%20Ministry%20of%20Interior.jpg<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/kuwait-uncovers-terror-cell-giant-arms-cache-150814064752900.html">Cache of Hezbollah weapons, explosives, and ammunition discovered by Kuwaiti authorities</a>.
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09/201509/2015Bahrain Uncovers Large IRGC-Linked Bomb-Making Factory<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Bahraini security forces <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bahrain-security-idUSKCN0RU2PJ20150930">discovered</a> a large bomb-making factory in Nuweidrat – a residential district south of the capital Manama – and arrested several suspects linked to the IRGC. Authorities said the facility contained more than 1.5 tons of high-grade explosives, making it one of the biggest finds in the island kingdom. The facility had been adapted to accommodate an elaborate network of hidden underground bunkers and above-ground manufacturing operations.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/15%29%20Sep%202015%20Bahrain%20weapons%20factory%20%28Bahrain%20ministry%20of%20interior%29.jpg<a href="http://www.tradearabia.com/news/MISC_291383.html">Bahraini authorities found military-grade explosives and chemical precursors at an IRGC-linked bomb making factory in Nuwaidrat</a>.
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11/201511/2015Kenya Foils Iran-Linked Plot<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Kenyan security forces arrested two Iran-linked Kenyan nationals who admitted to “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-security-idUSKBN0TH0CE20151128">conspiring to mount terror attacks against Western targets in Kenya</a>.” One of the men, Abubakar Sadiq Louw, 69, was a prominent figure in Nairobi’s Shi’ite community who authorities alleged had links to the IRGC-Quds Force. Louw was said to have recruited his accomplice, Yassin Sambai Juma, 25, and to have facilitated his travel to Iran where he met with a Quds Force contact. Following their arrest, Nairobi’s police chief stated, “<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/kenya-arrests-two-nationals-over-iran-linked-plot/">We have irrefutable evidence they were recruited into an Iranian spying ring</a>. … The mission of that ring was to mount terror attacks in this city, not only targeting Western interests but targeting our people as well.” The pair reportedly made “a number of trips to Iran in which they met their handlers” and were “given targets and given money.”</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/16%29%202015%20Kenya%20Iranian%20Spies%20%28The%20Daily%20Nation%29.jpg<a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/news/1056-2975736-jktycfz/index.html">Terror suspects Abubakar Sadiq Louw (L) and Yassin Sambai Juma (R) were linked to the IRGC-Quds Force</a>.
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11/04/201511/04/2015Bahrain Arrests Tehran-Linked Cell Plotting Attacks<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Bahraini security officials <a href="http://www.gulf-times.com/story/461699/Bahrain-says-terror-plot-by-Tehran-linked-group-fo">arrested</a> a 47-man group believed to be linked to Iran who were planning imminent attacks in the country. Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said a large number of explosives and weapons were found in secret caches in the residential areas of several villages, and several of the cell’s members received training in Iran on using weapons and manufacturing explosives.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/17%29%20November%202015%20Bahrain%20Terror%20Cell%20%28Al%20Arabiya%29.jpg<a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/11/04/Bahrain-says-it-arrested-47-members-of-terrorist-group-.html">Bahraini police inspect one of several residences belonging to an Iran-linked terror cell believed to have been plotting imminent attacks</a>.
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12/201512/2015Kata’ib Hezbollah Kidnaps 29 Qataris in Iraq<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Shiite militants believed to be members of <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/dd033082-49e9-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6">Katai’b Hezbollah</a>, an Iranian proxy group in Iraq, kidnapped a party of 29 Qatari falcon-hunters on expedition in the southern Iraqi desert. The Shiite group allegedly transferred the Qataris to Iran, where they were held for over a year, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/world/middleeast/big-ransom-and-syria-deals-win-release-of-royal-qatari-hunters.html">only releasing</a> them in April 2017 in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom money. In a press conference that month, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi revealed that Iraqi officials had seized bags full of cash belonging to Qatari officials that were intended to be delivered to Kata’ib Hezbollah, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/qatari-royals-kidnapped-iraq-ransom-half-billion-shia-militia-syria-saudi-hunters-baghdad-a7703946.html">estimated at $500 million</a>. Without naming the group, al-Abadi said that the country’s national security would have been severely jeopardized had the money reached its intended recipients. However, later reports claimed that a <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/dd033082-49e9-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6">total of $1 billion</a> had already been delivered by the Qataris - $700 million going to Iran, and the remainder to Kata’ib Hezbollah. It is unclear if these were separate payments or not.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/18%29%20December%202015%20Qatari%20hunters%20kidnapped%20%28Iraqi%20Interior%20Ministry%29.jpg<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/world/middleeast/big-ransom-and-syria-deals-win-release-of-royal-qatari-hunters.html">Kidnapped Qatari hunters were released 16 months following their abduction by Kata'ib Hezbollah</a>.
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01/20/201601/20/2016Foiled Hezbollah Cell Plot to Carry Out Attacks in West Bank<p style="font-size: 9pt;">In January 2016, Bahrain caught a terrorist cell <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-iran-bahrain-idUSKBN0UK1J320160106">backed by the IRGC and Hezbollah</a> which was in the midst of plotting a series of bombings. According to a report by Bahrain’s official news agency, one of the suspects had travelled to Lebanon and met personally with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who gave him $20,000 to aid the cell.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/20%29%20Jan%202016%20Hezbollah%20West%20Bank%20%28Shin%20Bet%29.jpg<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-busts-hezbollah-cell-planning-attacks-in-the-west-bank/">Israel's Shin Bet security service released photos of the five-member Hezbollah cell</a>.
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05/201605/2016Iranians Charged with Cyber Plots Against U.S. Banks, Dam<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The U.S. Justice Department announced <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iranians-charged-hacking-attacks-u-s-banks-dam-n544801">indictments against seven Iranian cyber specialists</a> linked to the Iranian government and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for cyber attacks against U.S. banks and a New York dam. The men were accused of carrying out distributed denial of service attacks–in which they hacked into bank servers and clogged it with data, preventing legitimate traffic–against 46 U.S. financial institutions, and attempting to hack into the control system of a New York dam between 2011 and 2013.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/21%29%20Iranians%20charged%20with%20U.S.%20Cyber%20Attacks%20%28FBI%29.jpg<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iranians-charged-hacking-attacks-u-s-banks-dam-n544801">FBI poster of Iranian cyber specialists who targeted U.S. banks and a New York dam</a>.
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07/201607/2016Bahrain Arrests Iranian, Iraqi Hezbollah Cell<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Bahraini authorities <a href="https://english.aawsat.com/obaid-alsuhaymi/news-middle-east/bahrain-arrests-terrorist-cell-trained-irgc-iraqi-hezbollah">arrested</a> a five-member terror cell linked to the IRGC and Kata’ib Hezbollah. They said the suspects had received extensive military training in bomb-making and carrying out attacks at both entities’ training camps. Authorities discovered and seized an arms cache including explosives, weapons, communications devices, and detonators. They also found daggers, knives, and various currencies.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/22%29%20July%202016%20Bahrain%20terror%20cell%20%28Bahrain%20MInistry%20of%20Interior.jpg<a href="http://www.policemc.gov.bh/en/news/ministry/54214">Photo released by Bahraini Ministry of Interior of two of the five members of the suspected terrorist cell</a>.
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09/04/201609/04/2016Foiled Hezbollah Plot to Carry out Mass Casualty Attacks in Israel<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Israeli security forces <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/israeli-security-forces-arrest-ghajar-terror-cell-linked-to-hezbollah.php">arrested</a> a cell of seven residents of Ghajar, on the border with Lebanon, allegedly planning to carry out mass casualty attacks in Israel on orders from Hezbollah. In May of 2016, two of the conspirators drove to the Israeli-Lebanese border fence near Ghajar and met with Hezbollah operatives, where they transferred encrypted files to the militants and received a bag of improvised explosive devices and $5,000 in exchange. According to Shin Bet, they were due to take a second delivery of explosives in August of that year. Hezbollah instructed the conspirators to plant the bombs at important centers and major hitchhiking stops in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. After failing to do so due to high security in the city, they decided to plant the explosives at the Golani Junction in the lower Galilee, a major gathering point for Israeli soldiers. The plot was the latest in a string of attempts by the Shiite organization to carry out attacks in Israel. According to Israel’s Shin Bet security service, “<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-breaks-up-hezbollah-terror-cells-in-west-bank/">The Hezbollah organization has recently made it a priority to try to spark terror acts, doing so from far away while attempting to not clearly express its involvement</a>.”</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/23%29%20Sep%202016%20Hezbollah%20Suspects%20in%20court%20%28Ynet%20-%20Ido%20Erez%29.jpg<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4863597,00.html">Members of the Hezbollah cell in Israeli court</a>.
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12/201612/2016Kenya Embassy Plot<p style="font-size: 9pt;">A Nairobi court charged two Iranian men, Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi and Abdolhosein Gholi Safaee, and their Kenyan driver, with “<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/two-iranians-charged-plan-attack-israeli-embassy-kenya-527441">facilitation of a terrorist attack</a>” after authorities caught them filming the Israeli embassy with their mobile phones. The surveillance was conducted from a <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iranians-in-Kenya-face-terrorism-charges-for-filming-Israeli-embassy-474219">diplomatic vehicle that belonged to the Iranian embassy</a>, indicating state involvement in the plot. An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman claimed the two men were “<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-urges-kenya-to-free-2-charged-in-plot-to-attack-israeli-embassy/">official lawyers of the justice ministry</a>… who traveled to Nairobi on behalf of the families of two Iranian prisoners in Kenya for a legal follow-up.” Kenya subsequently <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.759060">reached an agreement with Iran to deport the Iranians</a>, but drop criminal charges against them.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/24%29%202016%20Kenya%20Iranians%20Arrested%20%28Reuters%29.jpeg<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-security-iran-idUSKBN13Q506">Iranian Nationals Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi, Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe and their Kenyan driver Moses Keyah Mmboga appear in Kenyan court</a>.
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01/201701/2017Germany Thwarts Iranian Attacks on Jewish Targets<p style="font-size: 9pt;">German authorities <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Iran-planned-attacks-against-Israel-advocates-in-Germany-477720">indicted a Pakistani for conducting espionage on behalf of Iran’s state intelligence services</a>, which intended to attack pro-Israel organizations and representatives within Germany. German media reported that the Pakistani’s espionage activities were part of a larger Iranian operation to target pro-Israel groups throughout Europe.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/25%29%20Pakistani%20Arrested%20in%20Germany%20Spying%20for%20Iran%20%28Radio%20Free%20Europe%20Radio%20Liberty%29.jpg<a href="https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/link%20url%20goes%20here">Pakistani man who allegedly spied for Iran in Europe in German court</a>.
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02/26/201702/26/2017Iran-Linked Terror Cell Bombs Police Bus in Bahrain<p style="font-size: 9pt;">A 14 member cell linked to Iran <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bahrain-security-idUSKBN1650QC">carried</a> out a bomb attack on a bus carrying Bahraini police officers, wounding five. They were <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bahrain-security-idUSKBN16X11Z">arrested</a> the next month by Bahraini authorities. According to Bahraini officials, six of the arrestees received military training in IRGC camps, five in Kata’ib Hezbollah facilities, and three in Bahrain. Weapons, locally-made explosives and communications equipment was seized from the homes of the suspects. They cell was also suspected of plotting attacks against senior Bahraini officials.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/26%29%20Feb%202017%20Bahrain%20Police%20Bus%20Bombing%20%28Bahrain%20MOI%29.jpg<a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2017/03/26/Bahrain-arrests-terror-cell-foils-assassination-plots.html">Members of the cell behind the police bus attack who allegedly trained with the IRGC</a>.
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06/01/201706/01/2017Hezbollah Plot Targeting American and Israeli Interests<p style="font-size: 9pt;">U.S. authorities <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/us-foils-hezbollah-plot-attack-american-israeli-targets-new-york-and-panama-623432">arrested a pair of operatives belonging to the Iranian terrorist proxy, Hezbollah</a>, and charged them with plotting attacks against American and Israeli targets in New York and Panama. Both men had traveled to Lebanon for weapons and bomb-making training. Ali Kourani of the Bronx, NY, was accused of scouting American and Israeli military and law enforcement targets in New York, as well as airports, while Samer El Debek of Dearborn, Michigan was accused of scouting the U.S. and Israeli Embassies in Panama, as well as the Panama Canal, for a potential attack during a 2012 visit. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Samer El Debek “<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bronx-man-and-michigan-man-arrested-terrorist-activities-behalf-hizballah-s-islamic">received extensive training as a bomb-maker, and has a high degree of technical sophistication in the area</a>.”</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/27%29%202017%20U.S.%20Hezbollah%20Operative%20Ali%20Kourani%20%28LinkedIn%29.jpg<a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Hezbollah-Operatives-Charged-New-York-Terror-Targets-427280503.html">Hezbollah operative Ali Kourani of the Bronx, NY accused of scouting targets</a>.
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06/16/201706/16/2017IRGC Attempt to Attack Offshore Saudi Oil Installations<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Saudi naval forces <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-arrest-iran-military-elite-oil-627327">intercepted three Iranian boats flying red and white flags</a> that entered Saudi Arabia’s national waters. Saudi forces noticed the boats speeding towards Saudi Arabia’s offshore Marjan oil field’s installations, and began firing unheeded warning shots in their direction. Two of the boats succeeded in fleeing, but the Saudi navy managed to capture one of the boats, carrying three IRGC members and laden with arms intended for “subversive activities.” Iran has denied any wrongdoing, claiming the boats were actually fishing vessels which drifted off-course.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/28%29%20June%202017%20Saudi%20Captures%20IRGC.jpg<a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2017/Jun-20/410208-saudi-arabia-captures-three-irgc-members.ashx">Saudi authorities apprehended suspected IRGC members speeding toward the offshore Marjan oil field</a>.
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01/17/201801/17/2018Iran Terror Raids in Germany<p style="font-size: 9pt;">German authorities <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-spies-in-germany-targeted-israel-embassy-jewish-kindergartens-report/">announce</a> they are conducting searches throughout Germany, raiding the homes of ten suspected Iranian spies believed to be members of the IRGC’s Quds Force who were monitoring Israeli and Jewish targets in the country.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/German_police_Mercedes.jpg
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03/03/201803/03/2018Bahrain Arrests Iranian Terrorists<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Bahrain <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bahrain-security/bahrain-says-seizes-armed-network-set-up-by-irans-revolutionary-guard-idUSKCN1GF0G4?utm_source=Eye+on+Iran%3A+Israel+Demands+Stricter+Sanctions+On+Iranian+Missiles&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">announces</a> that it has arrested 116 members of an Iranian-backed terrorist militia, which authorities suspect of plotting attacks on government officials and the security services. Reports indicate that 48 of the 116 arrested agents received training at IRGC camps in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq, and that government officials uncovered manufacturing and storage sites for explosives.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/800px-Protests_in_Bahrain_Flickr_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg
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03/22/201803/22/2018Iranian operatives caught surveilling MEK in Albania<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Albanian authorities <a href="https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/25279/2-Iranians-arrested-in-Albania-over-terrorism-related-charges">arrested</a> two suspected Iranian operatives who were caught in the act of surveilling a site where exiled Iranian opposition figures from the Mujahideen-e Khalq group were set to hold a Persian Nowruz celebration. In December 2018, Albania expelled Iran’s ambassador and another Iranian diplomat, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iran-albania-diplomats-dissidents-mek-terrorism-trump-bolton-irgc-a8692876.html">reportedly</a> in connection to the aborted terrorist plot.</p>
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03/23/201803/23/2018U.S. Government Announces Indictment of and Sanctions on the Mabna Institute<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The Trump Administration <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-hits-iranian-hacker-network-with-sanctions-indictments-in-vast-global-campaign/2018/03/23/4481721c-2e16-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.fea4d43678d6">announces</a> the indictment of and sanctions on the Mabna Institute, characterizing it as engaging in “one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns” ever prosecuted by the U.S. government. According to U.S. officials, the Mabna Institute conducted “massive, coordinated intrusions,” targeting at least 144 U.S. universities and 176 foreign universities in 21 countries, stealing 31 terabytes of data and intellectual property in order to assist the IRGC in weapons research, among other areas.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/U.S._Attorney_General_Sessions_at_DHS.jpg
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05/29/201805/29/2018Hamas Launches Iranian Rockets into Israel<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The Israeli Defense Forces <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/army-says-some-rockets-mortars-fired-from-gaza-were-made-in-iran/">announces</a> that Hamas is launching mortars and rockets made in Iran into Israel.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/gaza-rockets-640x400.jpg
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06/201806/2018Israel Complains to U.N. Security Council Re: Hamas and Hezbollah Cooperation<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Lebanese news reports <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Report-Hezbollah-is-helping-Hamas-build-rocket-factories-training-camps-559584">indicate</a> that Israel has sent the U.N. Security Council a letter, outlining its concerns over Hamas and Hezbollah working together to establish missile factories and training camps for thousands of Palestinian fighters in southern Lebanon.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Hamas-and-Hezbollah.jpg
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07/10/201807/10/2018U.S. Government Designates al-Ashtar Brigades as a Foreign Terrorist Organization<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The U.S. Department of State <a href="https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/07/283939.htm">designates</a> the Bahrain-based al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. As a part of the rationale for the listing, U.S. government cites AAB as formally adopting the ‘branding’ of the IRGC and pledging its loyalty to Iran in January 2018 and Iran having supplied AAB with weapons and explosives, training its members, and offering safe harbor to AAB operatives seeking to escape Bahraini justice.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/1280px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg_.png
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07/11/201807/11/2018Iranian Diplomat Charged in Paris Terror Plot<p style="font-size: 9pt;">German authorities <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iranian-diplomat-assadollah-assadi-suspected-of-plotting-attack-in-france/">charge</a> Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat in Vienna, with conspiracy to commit murder after officials thwarted his plot to contract a couple from Belgium to bomb an annual meeting of an Iranian opposition group outside Paris. Assadi allegedly provided the couple with 500 grams of TATP to use against the gathering, at which former U.S. officials were due to participate.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Ulm_Germany_Court-House-02.jpg
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08/16/201808/16/2018United Nations Report Credits Iran with Al Qaeda’s Resurgence<p style="font-size: 9pt;">A United Nations <a href="https://undocs.org/S/2018/705">report</a> finds that “Al-Qaida leaders in the Islamic Republic of Iran have grown more prominent, working with A[y]man al-Zawahiri and projecting his authority more effectively than he could previously.” That same panel highlights Iran-based figures have “influenced events in the Syrian Arab Republic, countering the authority of Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani and causing formations, breakaways and mergers of various Al Qaeda-aligned groups in Idlib.”</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Ayman_al-Zawahiri_portrait.JPG
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08/22/201808/22/2018Iranian Spy Ring Indicted in the United States<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The U.S. government <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2018-08-22/2-alleged-agents-of-iran-arrested-for-spying-in-us">charges</a> two Iranians, Ahmadreza Doostar and Majid Ghorbani, with conducting surveillance on Israeli and Jewish targets in the United States, specifically the Hillel Center and Rohr Chabad Center in Chicago. The operatives are also implicated in infiltrating an Iranian dissident organization in the United States.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/671px-E._Barrett_Prettyman_Federal_Courthouse%2C_DC.jpg
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09/03/201809/03/2018Iranian Civil Aviation Company Suspected of Arms Smuggling<p style="font-size: 9pt;">A Fox News report <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/irans-secret-weapons-smuggling-air-routes-to-lebanon-revealed-by-intel-sources">uncovers</a> two unusual Qeshm Fars Air flights from Tehran to Beirut suspected of arms smuggling. It cites Western intelligence sources saying at least one of the flights were carrying “components for manufacturing precise weapons in Iranian factories inside Lebanon.”</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/800px-Yakovlev_Yak-42D%2C_Fars_Air_Qeshm_AN1273348.jpg
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09/20/201809/20/2018U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Terrorism Cites Iran/Al Qaeda Relationship<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The U.S. Department of State’s latest <a href="https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2017/282847.htm">Country Reports on Terrorism</a> accuses Iran of harboring Al Qaeda “facilitation bases.” The report says, “Iran has allowed AQ facilitators to operate a core facilitation pipeline through Iran since at least 2009, enabling AQ to move funds and fighters to South Asia and Syria.”</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/800px-U.S._State_Department_-_Truman_Building.JPG
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10/02/201810/02/2018French Police Raid Hezbollah Islamic Center<p style="font-size: 9pt;">French authorities <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-police-raid-islamic-center-founded-by-hezbollah-supporter/">detain</a> three people and seize weapons after raids on a dozen homes and the headquarters of a leading Shiite Islamic organization, Zahra Centre, which was founded in 2009 by Yahia Gousami. Gousami has spoken in favor of Hezbollah and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/785px-Yahia_Gouasmi.jpg
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10/09/201810/09/2018Czech Government Uncovers Hezbollah Hacking Gambit<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The Czech Security Intelligence Service (BIS) <a href="https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-counterintelligence-helps-uncover-hezbollah-hacking-scheme?utm_source=Eye+on+Iran%3A+Public+Strike+in+Iran+Protests+Worsening+Living+Conditions&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">uncovers</a> a Hezbollah hacking scheme in which operatives connected to the organization posed as attractive girls on Facebook, luring unsuspecting users to install a ‘more private and secure application’ on their mobile devices, giving Hezbollah access to the contents of their phones.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/800px-Computer_Keyboard_MOD_45155531.jpg
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10/13/201810/13/2018Report to U.N. Security Council Exposes Iran’s Ties to Al-Shabaab<p style="font-size: 9pt;">A report to the U.N. Security Council <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/al-qaeda-affiliate-al-shabaab-somlia-reportedly-using-iran-transit-point-illegal-charcoal-shipments-earning-millions-dollars/29541307.html">indicates</a> that Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group in Somalia with links to Al Qaeda, is using Iran as its main transit point for illegal charcoal exports from Somalia.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/2012_11_29_AMISOM_Kismayo_Day2_H_%288252384378%29.jpg
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10/21/201810/21/2018Iran-linked suspect arrested for foiled Danish assassination plot<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Denmark’s primary intelligence agency announced the <a href="https://www.apnews.com/52e7ece8f96c40d2bfb8475280e0e587">arrest</a> of a Norwegian man of Iranian descent for allegedly taking part in an Iranian intelligence service’s plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab separatist activist on Danish soil. On September 28, Danish police thwarted Iran’s plans through a major security operation carried out with Sweden. Authorities shut off access to and from the island that Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, is situated on for several hours to launch a manhunt for the suspect, who had been seen photographing the homes of members of an Iranian Arab separatist movement residing in Denmark. Denmark <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20181030-denmark-recalls-ambassador-iran-foiled-attack-separatist">recalled its ambassador to Iran</a> in response to the incident.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Iran-linked%20suspect%20arrested%20for%20foiled%20Danish%20assassination%20plot.png
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11/13/201811/13/2018U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Hezbollah Operatives and Entity<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The U.S. Treasury Department <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sanctions-four-men-it-alleges-run-hezbollahs-iraq-operations-1542125622">imposes</a> sanctions on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s son, Jawad Nasrallah; on four men who head Hezbollah’s Iraqi operations; and on the al-Mujahidin Brigades, a Hezbollah-linked Palestinian militia.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/800px-Secretary_Mnuchin_Provides_and_Update_on_Iran_Policy_and_Sanctions_at_the_Washington_Foreign_Press_Center_%2845736593061%29.jpg
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11/15/201811/15/2018Argentina Arrests Two Tied to Hezbollah, Possibly Thwarting Attack<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Police <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/argentina-arrests-men-suspected-links-hezbollah-181116074024134.html">arrest</a> two Argentines allegedly linked to Hezbollah and discover a small weapons arsenal. Israeli television <a href="https://www.jpost.com/International/Mossad-allegedly-provides-intelligence-to-thwart-Hezbollah-plot-in-Argentina-572284">claims</a> the arrests are based on Mossad-provided intelligence and have thwarted a Hezbollah plot to attack Jewish community centers in Buenos Aires.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/800px-Policia-bonaerense-2.JPG
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11/26/201811/26/2018German Telecom Company Cuts Off Sanctioned Iranian Bank<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Leading German telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Germanys-largest-telecom-company-stops-service-for-Iranian-terror-bank-572892">reportedly</a> discontinues telephone and internet service to Iran’s Bank Melli, which the U.S. has sanctioned for financing terror.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Sandogh_Pas-andaz_Bank_Melli.jpg
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11/28/201811/28/2018Businessman Sentenced to Prison in France for Hezbollah-Linked Money Laundering<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Lebanese businessman Mohamad Noureddine, whom the U.S. has sanctioned for ties to Hezbollah, is <a href="https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/lebanese-businessman-jailed-in-paris-drug-trial-1.797026">sentenced</a> in France to seven years’ imprisonment for laundering Colombian drug money <a href="https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/lebanese-connection-drug-trial-of-hezbollah-agent-to-open-in-paris-1.791150">to buy weapons</a> for Hezbollah in Syria.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/397px-Paris_All%C3%A9gorie_Justice_bourse_2012.jpg
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12/04/201812/04/2018Israel Reveals Discovery of Hezbollah Cross-Border Tunnels<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The Israeli government <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673181288/israels-army-says-it-found-tunnels-dug-by-hezbollah-beneath-border-with-lebanon">reveals</a> that Hezbollah is building several tunnels from Lebanon into Israel for military use. Israel launches Operation Northern Shield to destroy the tunnels.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/532px-Benjamin_Netanyahu_%2825968752048%29.jpg
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12/30/201812/30/2018Iranian Supreme Leader and Foreign Minister Meet with Palestinian Islamic Jihad Chief<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Iranian Supreme Leader <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Irans-leader-meets-Islamic-Jihad-leaders-calls-for-Israels-downfall-575951">Ali Khamenei</a> and Foreign Minister <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Irans-Zarif-meets-Islamic-Jihad-leader-pledges-support-for-Palestine-575795?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">Mohammad Javad Zarif</a> meet in Tehran with Ziad al-Nakhala, head of the Iranian-sponsored terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Ayatollah_Khamenei_meeting_with_poets.jpg
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04/201904/2019Bahraini court sentenced 139 Bahrainis on terrorism charges. The individuals were accused of forming an organization it referred to as "Bahrani Hizballah." <p style="font-size: 9pt;"> In April 2019, a Bahraini court <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Country-Reports-on-Terrorism-2019-2.pdf">sentenced</a> to prison 139 Bahrainis, of whom 69 received life sentences (25 years), on terrorism 113 charges; the court also ordered the revocation of their citizenships. The GOB accused the individuals of forming an organization it referred to as “Bahraini Hizballah” with the intention of carrying out attacks in Bahrain.</p>
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05/201905/2019Iran greenlights attacks on U.S. personnel, interests in the Middle East by its proxies<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Intelligence indicates that Iran has given its proxies the go-ahead to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/u-s-officials-iran-official-ok-d-attacks-american-military-n1003421?utm_source=Eye+on+Iran%3A+U.S.+Issues+New+Sanctions+As+Iran+Warns+It+Will+Step+Back+From+Nucl&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">target U.S. military personnel and assets</a> in the Middle East in response to the U.S. designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization and the revocation of waivers for buyers of Iranian petroleum exports. It is later reported that IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani summoned Iran-backed militias in Iraq and told them to “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/16/iran-tells-middle-east-militias-prepare-for-proxy-war?utm_source=Eye+on+Iran%3A+Trump+Tells+Pentagon+Chief+He+Does+Not+Want+War+With+Iran&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">prepare for proxy war</a>.” The reports precede an uptick in Iranian terror activities and regional destabilization over a span of several months.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Iran%20greenlights%20attacks%20on%20U.S.%20personnel%2C%20interests%20in%20the%20Middle%20East%20by%20its%20proxies.png
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05/12/201905/12/2019Four tankers allegedly sabotaged by Iran<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Following reports that Iran and its proxies could target maritime traffic, four tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates suffer damage in apparent sabotage attacks. The tankers—two Saudi, one Emirati, and one Norwegian— were apparently <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-officials-highly-likely-iran-carried-out-tanker-attacks-n1007141">struck by explosive charges</a>. The U.S. claims to have forensic evidence tying Iran or its proxies to the attacks.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Four%20tankers%20allegedly%20sabotaged%20by%20Iran.png
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06/13/201906/13/2019Twin attacks on Japanese, Norwegian oil tankers in Gulf of Oman<p style="font-size: 9pt;">A Japanese and Norwegian oil tanker were <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/reports-of-incident-in-gulf-of-oman-send-oil-prices-up-11560410373?utm_source=Eye+on+Iran%3A+U.S.+Says+Tehran+Is+To+Blame+For+Attacks+On+Fuel+Tankers&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">attacked</a> in the Gulf of Oman within 45 minutes of each other. According to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Iran was the likely culprit based on “intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.”</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Twin%20attacks%20on%20Japanese%2C%20Norwegian%20oil%20tankers%20in%20Gulf%20of%20Oman.png
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08/07/201908/07/2019Iranian hackers infiltrate Bahraini infrastructure, security agency<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Over a span of several weeks, Bahraini authorities identified hacker intrusions into the country’s Electricity and Water Authority, Aluminum Bahrain, National Security Agency, Ministry of Interior, and first deputy prime minister’s office computers. Bahraini authorities <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-level-cyber-intrusions-hit-bahrain-amid-tensions-with-iran-11565202488?utm_source=US+Government+Warns+Of+Iranian+Threats+To+Commercial+Shipping%2C+Including+GPS+Int&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">suspect Iranian involvement</a> in the cyber attacks, which briefly granted the hackers command and control access over critical infrastructure.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Iranian%20hackers%20infiltrate%20Bahraini%20infrastructure%2C%20security%20agency.png
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07/22/201907/22/2019Iran’s Supreme Leader hosts Hamas delegation<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hosted a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-palestinians-have-precise-missiles-to-resist-us-peace-plan/">delegation of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas</a> in Tehran and reaffirmed Iran’s support for the group. Khamenei called upon the group to use its “precision missiles” to resist the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan. Several weeks after the meeting, Israeli media reported that Iran had upped its annual support for Hamas from <a href="https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-boosts-aide-to-hamas-to-360-million/30096338.html?utm_source=Trump+Administration+Pressure+Is+Weakening+Iran%27s+Regime&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">$100 million to $360 million</a>.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Iran%E2%80%99s%20Supreme%20Leader%20hosts%20Hamas%20delegation.png
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08/08/201908/08/2019Israel breaks up Iranian effort to recruit spies from Palestinian territories<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service announced it had broken up an Iranian espionage network’s effort to use social media to recruit West Bank and Gaza Palestinian operatives “<a href="https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1828886/shin-bet-breaks-iranian-espionage-network-israel?utm_source=U.S.+Aims+A+Megaphone+At+Iranian+Public+As+Part+Of+Pressure+Campaign&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">for the benefit of Iranian intelligence</a>.” The spy network was based in Syria under Iranian guidance and used fictitious profiles to establish contacts in the Palestinian territories. Iran reportedly sought intelligence on sensitive Israeli military and security sites for use in potential future terrorist attacks.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Israel%20breaks%20up%20Iranian%20effort%20to%20recruit%20spies%20from%20Palestinian%20territories.png
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10/23/201910/23/2019Albanian police discovered an Iranian paramilitary network planned attacks in Albanian against exiled members of an Iranian group<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Albanian police <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/albania-says-its-discovered-an-iranian-paramilitary-network/2019/10/23/1d3dcb62-f5a0-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html">discovered</a> an Iranian paramilitary network that allegedly planned attacks in Albania against exiled members of an Iranian group seeking to overthrow the government in Tehran. Police chief Ardi Veliu said the foreign wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard operated an “active terrorist cell” targeting Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, group members in Albania. He did not say what the alleged plot involved, or whether any arrests were made. A police statement alleged that two Iranian top security officials led the cell from Tehran. It also said the network was allegedly linked with organized crime groups in Turkey and used a former MEK member to collect information in Albania.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/MEK.JPG
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10/23/201910/23/2019Russian hackers used Iranian cyber tools and digital infrastructure to launch attacks on government and industry groups in dozens of countries <p style="font-size: 9pt;">Russian hackers used Iranian cyber tools and digital infrastructure to launch attacks on government and industry groups in dozens of countries, national security officials from the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The Turla group, which is widely believed to be Russian in origin, used two Iranian hacking tools—Nautilus and Neuron—to target military, government, academic and scientific organizations in at least 35 different countries, <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/10/russian-hackers-used-stolen-iranian-malware-attack-35-countries-nsa-says/160766/">according to a joint advisory released by the National Security Agency and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre</a>. So far, victims have largely been concentrated in the Middle East, officials said. While authorities had previously flagged Turla’s use of the tools, this latest advisory offers new details on their origin and the extent of their damage. The disclosure paints a picture of Russian hackers piggy-backing off the work of Iranian rivals to advance their own agenda.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Russian_Hackers.jpg
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11/06/201911/06/2019Swedish authorities charge a 46-year old Swedish Iraqi national with spying on Iran's behalf by gathering information on members of the Ahvazi Arab exile community<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Swedish authorities <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-charges-man-with-spying-on-iranian-exiles/a-51140801">charged a man</a> with spying on Iran's behalf for several years. The man, a 46-year-old Swedish-Iraqi national, is suspected of gathering information on members of the Ahvazi Arab exile community for a four-year period between April 2015 and February 2019 when he was arrested. The Ahvazi are an Arab ethnic minority living in the southwest Iranian province of Khusestan. The minority group faces discrimination and persecution by authorities there, according to Amnesty International. Figures for the number of Ahvazi living in Sweden are not available.</p>
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11/07/201911/07/2019Two men plead guilty to acting as agents of Iran and spying on American citizens<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Two men have pleaded guilty to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/two-men-plead-guilty-iran-agents-spying-americans">acting as agents of Iran</a> and spying on American citizens who oppose the Tehran regime and are part of the dissident group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Dual citizen Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, admitted on Oct. 8 to one count of acting as an agent of Iran and one count of conspiring against the statute that requires notifying the Attorney General when acting as an agent of a foreign power. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 17 and faces up to five years in prison for the conspiracy charge and 10 years for acting as a foreign agent. Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen who lives in California, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. He is due to be sentenced Jan. 15. Prosecutors said Doostdar traveled to the United States in 2017 to give Ghorbani instructions on surveilling American citizens who are part of MEK, the DOJ said.</p>
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12/31/201912/31/2019Iran-backed Shiite Militias Attack U.S. Embassy in Iraq<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Iran-backed operatives <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/world/middleeast/baghdad-protesters-us-embassy.html" target =blank">stormed</a> the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, setting fires inside the compound and chanting “Death to America” after the U.S. government struck Iraqi Shiite militia positions following a strike on a military base which killed an American contractor. The militants did not enter the embassy buildings but defaced the property with graffiti. Inside the protest crowd outside the embassy were the Iranian regime’s point-men in Baghdad—founder of the Badr Organization Hadi al-Amiri, former deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and chairman of the PMF Falih al-Fayad.https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Iraqi.jpg
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01/07/202001/07/2020Iran Launches Strike Against Iraqi Bases Housing U.S. Troops<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> In response to the U.S. strike which killed former head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/al-asad-iran-launches-rockets-at-iraqi-base-housing-us-troops-as-vengeance-for-soleimani-killing" target =blank">launched</a> a ballistic missile attack targeting two Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops. The U.S. government previously determined that Iran—through Qassem Soleimani’s proxy network—was responsible for the deaths of at least 608 American troops in Iraq from 2003-11, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/politics/mike-pompeo-qasem-soleimani-imminent-threat/index.html" target =blank">claimed</a> that Soleimani posed an imminent threat to U.S. interests in the region. On Iran’s strike, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/08/milley-iran-american-troops-missile-096402" target =blank">said</a>, “The points of impact were close enough to personnel and equipment and so on and so forth, I believe, based on what I saw and what I know, is that they were intended to cause structural damage, destroy vehicles and equipment and aircraft, and to kill personnel.”https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/strike.jpg
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01/16/202001/16/2020Two men are sentenced to prison on charges in connection with working on behalf of the government of Iran<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Two men have been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/two-men-sentenced-to-prison-for-helping-iranian-government-spy-on-dissidents-in-united-states/2020/01/16/40efd9ca-388e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html">sentenced to prison</a> on charges in connection with working on behalf of the government of Iran to monitor a Jewish center in Chicago and Americans who are members of an exiled Iranian opposition group. Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, was sentenced to 38 months in prison on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington after pleading guilty Oct. 8 to one count of conspiracy and one count of acting as an undeclared agent of the Iranian government. Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen and U.S. permanent resident living in Costa Mesa, Calif., was sentenced to 30 months in prison by Friedman on one count of violating U.S. sanctions by giving photographs to Doostdar that he knew Doostdar would take to Iran, according to court records.</p>
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01/27/202001/27/2020Cyber-attacks originating from Iran were among the 800 distinct cyber-attacks on Israel's Ben Gurion Airport<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> <a href="https://en.radiofarda.com/a/israel-s-channel-12-says-iran-hackers-targeted-planes-of-world-leaders-arriving-for-holocaust-memorial/30400405.html">Israel’s Channel 12 reported that</a> cyber-attacks originating from Iran were among the 800 distinct cyber-attacks on Israel's Ben Gurion Airport and planes of world leaders arriving in Israel to attend Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on 23 January. According to The Times of Israel on Sunday Channel 12 cited officials from the Airports Authority Cyber Division in a report that said last week, when world leaders including U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Russian President Vladimir Putin were arriving in Israel to attend the memorial, more than 800 cyber-attacks targeted Israel's international airport and the planes landing there. Channel 12, also known as Keshet 12, is a free-to-air television owned by a media group of the same name. The report said the attacks originated in Iran, China, North Korea, Russia and Poland but since preparations had been made ahead of the momentous event for Israel, the threats were neutralized by Israel's cyber defense, Hercules.</p>
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02/14/202002/14/2020Facebook removes two seperate networks of fake accounts originating in Iran and Russia<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Facebook has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51493172?utm_source=+U.S.+Warship+In+Arabian+Sea+Seizes+Suspected+Iranian+Weapons&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email">removed</a> two separate networks of fake accounts originating in Iran and Russia, for "engaging in foreign or government interference". The Russian operation, which Facebook linked to the country's military intelligence services, focused primarily on Ukraine and neighbouring countries. The small Iranian operation used accounts and personas on Facebook and Instagram to post content about US politics and the 2020 presidential election.</p>
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03/11/202003/11/2020Iranian-backed militias or the IRGC believed to be behind attack on a military base in Iraq<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Iranian-backed militia forces are believed to have <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/03/11/us-coalition-troops-killed-rocket-attack-iraq-potentially-spiking-tensions-with-iran/" target =blank">launched a Katyusha rocket salvo</a> targeting U.S. and coalition troops stationed at Camp Taji, 17 miles north of Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers and one British soldier were killed in the attack, and an additional twelve soldiers were injured.</p>
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04/01/202004/01/2020The U.S. believes Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security was directly involved in the killing of an Iranian dissident last November in Turkey<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> The United States <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-iran-killing-usa/u-s-believes-iran-was-directly-involved-in-killing-of-iranian-dissident-in-turkey-idUSKBN21K027#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20The%20United,14%2C%202019.">believes</a> Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security was directly involved in the killing of an Iranian dissident last November in Turkey, a senior administration official told Reuters on Wednesday. Masoud Molavi Vardanjani was shot dead on an Istanbul street on Nov. 14, 2019. Citing Turkish officials, Reuters last week reported that two intelligence officers in Iran’s consulate in Istanbul had instigated his killing. “Given Iran’s history of targeted assassinations of Iranian dissidents and the methods used in Turkey, the United States government believes that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was directly involved in Vardanjani’s killing,” a senior administration official told Reuters.</p>
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04/02/202004/02/2020Hackers working in the interests of Iran attempted to break into the personal email accounts of staff at the World Health Organization<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Hackers working in the <a href="https://reut.rs/2R4Zkei/">interests</a> of the Iranian government have attempted to break into the personal email accounts of staff at the World Health Organization during the coronavirus outbreak, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. It is not clear if any accounts were compromised, but the attacks show how the WHO and other organizations at the center of a global effort to contain the coronavirus have come under a sustained digital bombardment by hackers seeking information about the outbreak. Reuters reported in March that hacking attempts against the United Nations health agency and its partners had more than doubled since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, which has now killed more than 40,000 worldwide. The latest effort has been ongoing since March 2 and attempted to steal passwords from WHO staff by sending malicious messages designed to mimic Google web services to their personal email accounts, a common hacking technique known as “phishing,” according to four people briefed on the attacks. Reuters confirmed their findings by reviewing a string of malicious websites and other forensic data.</p>
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06/26/202006/26/2020Norwegian man of Iranian descent sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of spying for Iran and being accessory to attempts to commit murder on Danish soil<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> A court in Denmark <a href="https://apnews.com/3a6467bfc36aa9bd61155483ccdae741" target =blank">sentenced</a> a 40-year-old Norwegian man of Iranian descent to seven years in prison after he was found guilty of spying for Iran and being accessory to attempts to commit murder on Danish soil. The man, who was not identified by the court, “collected information about an exiled Iranian in Denmark” during the period of Sept. 25-27, 2018. The Roskilde city court said it was “proven” that the information was handed over to a person working for an unnamed Iranian intelligence service. It added that online chats between the defendant and the person working for the Iranian intelligence service “weighed in” as evidence.</p>
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06/25/202006/25/2020The Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team has identifies a chain of attacks on its cloud service by a group linked to Iran and the Iranian Cyber Army<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> The Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team has <a href="https://en.radiofarda.com/a/microsoft-details-sophisticated-hacking-linked-to-iranian-cyber-espionage-group/30689747.html">identified</a> a chain of attacks on its cloud service in a post published on June 18. According to Microsoft the group identified as HOLMIUM” has been performing espionage and destructive attacks targeting aerospace, defense, chemical, mining, and petrochemical-mining industries. Based on previous research by the Fireye the group has been linked to Iran and the Iranian Cyber Army. The attack consisted of sophisticated phishing emails giving the target an impression that the message was legitimate.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Microsoft.jpg
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06/01/202006/01/2020Iran tries to increase chlorine levels in the water flowing to residential areas during a cyberattack against Israel's water systems<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Iran <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-cyberattack-on-israels-water-supply-could-have-sickened-hundreds-report/">tried</a> to increase chlorine levels in the water flowing to residential areas during April’s cyberattack against Israel’s water systems, a Western intelligence official has told the Financial Times. The official told the British newspaper in a report published Monday that hundreds of people would have been at risk of getting sick and that the attack was close to being successful. The head of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate hinted last week that the attack may have aimed to mix chlorine or other chemicals into the water supply.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/water%20israel.jpg
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05/20/202005/20/2020Iran uses "sophisticated state-sponsored program" of cyber disinformation to identify and arrest supporters of a London-based Persian-language news outlet<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Iran has been <a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1679166/world/">accused</a> of using a “sophisticated state-sponsored program” of cyber disinformation to identify and arrest supporters of a London-based Persian-language news outlet. Iran International has been targeted by cybercriminals, thought to be working for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who have made replicas of the channel’s social media accounts and their most popular reporters. Mahmood Enayat, general manager at Iran International, said this is an attempt to identify and arrest the channel’s supporters in the country.</p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/cyber.jpg
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05/08/202005/08/2020Iran is linked to an attempted cyberattack aimed at disrupting water supplies in Israel<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Iran is being <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/intelligence-officials-say-attempted-cyberattack-on-israeli-water-utilities-linked-to-iran/2020/05/08/f9ab0d78-9157-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html/">linked</a> to an attempted cyberattack last month that authorities believe was aimed at disrupting water supplies in at least two locations in Israel as that country was seeking to contain a covid-19 outbreak, according to foreign intelligence officials familiar with the matter. The incident, which occurred on April 24 and 25, was quickly detected and thwarted before it could cause damage. But Israeli officials and analysts fear that it could signal a further escalation in hostilities between the two countries and that Iran is getting bolder in its efforts to sabotage key systems. “Cyberattacks that intentionally damage critical infrastructure shouldn’t be condoned,” said a senior Trump administration official, who declined to discuss any specific incident and who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the topic’s sensitivity. “We think they’re very destabilizing.”</p>
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05/08/202005/08/2020Hackers linked to Iran target staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Hackers <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-gilead-iran-ex/exclusive-iran-linked-hackers-recently-targeted-coronavirus-drugmaker-gilead-sources-idUSKBN22K2EV/">linked</a> to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus. In one case, a fake email login page designed to steal passwords was sent in April to a top Gilead executive involved in legal and corporate affairs, according to an archived version on a website used to scan for malicious web addresses. Reuters was not able to determine whether the attack was successful. Ohad Zaidenberg, lead intelligence researcher at Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky, who closely tracks Iranian hacking activity and has investigated the attacks, said the attempt was part of an effort by an Iranian group to compromise email accounts of staff at the company using messages that impersonated journalists.</p>
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08/03/202008/03/2020Iran was behind the local cell that attempted to plant explosive devices along the border between Israel and Syria<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Israeli defense officials <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-officials-iran-not-hezbollah-likely-behind-attempted-syria-border-attack-1.9043563">claimed</a> that it is likely that Iran, rather than Hezbollah, was behind the local cell that attempted to plant explosive devices along the border between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights Sunday night. In a statement issued Monday by Defense Minister Benny Gantz, he initially said Hezbollah was responsible for the incident, but a correction that his office sent out moments later omitted any reference to the Lebanese group, and only referred to “terrorists.” Iran has used other similar local groups and Shi’ite militia members, who were sent to Syria to aid the Assad regime in the civil war, for similar purposes in the past. If it were indeed an Iranian-backed unit behind the incident, then it was probably a response to a series of recent airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria attributed to Israel.</p>
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7/21/20207/21/2020Israel thwarted an Iranian and Hezbollah terrorist plot to kidnap one of its soldiers.<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> Israel has <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-officials-iran-not-hezbollah-likely-behind-attempted-syria-border-attack-1.9043563">reportedly</a> thwarted a terrorist plot to kidnap of one of its soldiers, a plan its security services say was masterminded by Iran and Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah. The cell was intercepted and 10 members were arrested, the Shin Bet domestic security agency said. It said it believed the plot was meant to obtain leverage for the release of jailed Palestinians. The Shin Bet said the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP, was to carry out the plot in the occupied West Bank.</p>
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2/1/20212/1/2021Several Iranian agents who scouted out the Israeli, American, and Emirati embassies in an unnamed East African country in preparation for a potential attack have been arrested.<p style="font-size: 9pt;"> The agents were sent by Iran to gather intelligence on the sites for a terror attack, Kan News reported, citing Western intelligence sources. Some held dual European and Iranian citizenship, and some were arrested in the East African country, while others were apprehended in different countries. The attack was thwarted last month, according to the <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-agents-scouted-israeli-us-uae-embassies-in-east-africa-for-attack-tv/">report.</a></p>
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2/4/20212/4/2021A Belgian court sentenced an Iranian diplomat to 20 years in prison for plotting a bomb attack against a gathering of Iranian dissidents outside Paris in 2018, in a case that has strained Tehran’s ties with Europe.<p style="font-size: 9pt;">Assadollah Assadi, a counselor at Iran’s embassy in Vienna, was Thursday convicted of organizing the foiled attack that targeted a rally held by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an umbrella opposition group dominated by the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, or MEK. The court in Antwerp sentenced three other Iranians to 15, 17 and 18 years respectively in prison for collusion, concluding that Iranian state intelligence had ordered the plot <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/iranian-diplomat-sentenced-to-20-years-for-foiled-bomb-plot-in-france-11612439873">plot.</a></p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/protestors.jpg
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2/6/20212/6/2021Iranian cyber actors are likely behind the creation of an inflammatory website called Enemies of the People and continue to be active despite earlier warnings.<p style="font-size: 9pt;">The website contains, among other things, death threats directed toward U.S. election officials, the FBI said in a recent advisory. The intent is to "create fear, divisions, and mistrust in the United States and undermine public confidence in the US electoral process," the FBI said. The Iranian cyber group has also exposed officials' personal information and photographs, a practice known as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/tech/iranian-cyber-groups-continue-to-masquerade-as-american-patriot-organizations-that-threaten-us-officials'">doxing.</a></p>https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/iran%20cyber.jpg