Iran seeks approval to buy tons of Kazakh uranium ore
Geostrategy-Direct Iran has asked the body overseeing its 2015 nuclear deal to approve Teheran’s purchase of 950 tons of uranium ore from Kazakhstan. Iran says it will use the (more…)
Report: Iran expanding network of camps that train foreign terrorists
Geostrategy-Direct Iran is operating 14 camps for the training of foreign terrorists, according to a top dissident group in the Islamic Republic. The National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a (more…)
Sanctions, leaked State Dept. cables highlight China-Iran missile connection
Geostrategy-Direct A “Chinese-based network” was helping Iran procure items for its ballistic missile program, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. In action by the Trump administration on Iran that (more…)
Iran downplays test of nuclear-capable ‘Soumar’ missile reportedly designed to target Israel
Geostrategy-Direct Iran continues to insist its missile program is mainly a “deterrent power” and shrugged off assertions that its most recent missile test was a breach of the nuclear (more…)
Iran seen ‘testing Trump’ with latest test of nuclear capable ballistic missile
Geostrategy-Direct Iran in January tested a medium-range ballistic missile – and the resolve of U.S. President Donald Trump. In the first such test since Trump took office, the Islamic (more…)
Trump retains Obama appointee who helped craft Iran nuclear deal
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. President Donald Trump has asked an Obama administration Treasury Department official who helped create of the Iran nuclear agreement to stay on. Adam Szubin, acting undersecretary for (more…)
Arms seized off coast of Yemen appear to have been made in Iran
A cache of what appear to be Iranian-made weapons seized off the coast of Yemen is evidence of a “weapons pipeline” that extends from Iran to Somalia and Yemen, (more…)
U.S. admits to training Iran-backed militias in Iraq
The United States has acknowledged it trained some 500 Iran-backed fighters for the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), some of whom belonged to Shi’ite militias (more…)
Business trumps politics in pre-Trump administration deals for Iran’s aviation business
Buoyed by the July 2015 nuclear deal which opened opportunities for commercial collaboration with Iran, the U.S. Boeing Company and Europe’s Airbus, the world’s two largest aircraft manufacturers, are (more…)