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Iran Defies U.S. Bid to Curb Its Middle East Influence

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Tehran has kept up the flow of arms and financial support to proxy forces even as Washington pressures Iran’s economy  Ali Khamenei visited a military academy in Tehran in June Iran is signaling that it will buck U.S. efforts to roll back its military presence in the Middle East, moving to cement foreign alliances and continuing to project power abroad despite sanctions that have helped put intense  pressure on its economy . Tehran signed a long-term  security pact with Syria  in August and has kept up the flow of arms and financial support to proxy forces around the region, according to U.S. officials and a person close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia. On Sunday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a meeting with air force commanders that Iran needed to boost its personnel and buy more equipment, though he said a war was unlikely. He didn’t elaborate. Members of Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary units in Baghdad in June.   PHO...

Unprecedented attacks targeting Khamenei in Iran’s parliament

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The Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) Analysis by PMOI/MEK Sept. 7, 2018  -  On Tuesday, September 2 nd , an open-door session of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) became the scene of a number of Majlis members acknowledging the regime’s crises and “super challenges” while criticizing Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his policies for their status quo. These unprecedented attacks came at a time when Khamenei himself is engulfed in circumstances that the regime’s so-called Assembly of Experts held a session on the same day to inject new life into his role as the Supreme Leader in public opinion. Ahmad Jannati, head of the Assembly of Experts, said all the country’s dilemmas are blamed on Khamenei. Majlis member Gholamreza Heidari said, “The significant decrease in the value of our currency, skyrocketing prices, even for basic daily necessities, are all signs indicating the country is not being managed correctly.” He referred to the ...