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P By Alejo Vidal-Quadras  30 August 2018 | 16:51 | Euractiv Both Facebook and Twitter recently announced that they had removed hundreds of accounts in the wake of revelations from the cybersecurity FireEye, which identified them as being linked to coordinated disinformation campaigns that originated with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The closure of more than 652 Facebook pages and nearly 300 Twitter timelines appears to confirm that, whereas Iranian efforts to influence public opinion in the West were already well known, they were in fact much more large-scale than previously suspected. The Iranian campaign was reportedly less sophisticated than its more widely publicized Russian counterpart, but it represents a steadily growing threat to the political integrity of the US and Europe, and perhaps also to the policy outcomes of those countries. To whatever extent this or other Iranian infiltration efforts proves successful, those outcomes could pose risks to Weste...

By INU Staff INU - A US lawmaker has warned that the two Iranian spies recently arrested on American soil may be just the tip of the iceberg. Two Iranian agents were arrested earlier this month for spying on the Iranian Resistance and Jewish communities in the US, but Republican Representative Peter Roskam from Illinois was not surprised and said that it was likely that Iran has many more regime-tied agents conducting intelligence operations in Iran. He  said : "This is the tip of the iceberg. This is not a surprise and this is a result of the Iran regime getting financial support from the Obama administration in the Iran deal." The Iran deal is the 2015 nuclear deal between six world powers and Iran, which gave sanctions relief to Iran in exchange for supposed restrictions on its nuclear programme. The US pulled out of the deal in May, citing Iran’s noncompliance. Roskam believes that the nuclear deal led to a lack of international repercussions on Iran for its...