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Iran Links New Nuke Deal to Removing IRGC from Terror Black List
March 29, 2022
Negotiators for Iran's Islamic theocracy are pushing for the US' removal of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) watch list in exchange for reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that limits Iran's nuclear program.
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US CENTCOM Commande Warns Afghanistan A Platform for Islamist Terror Groups
March 29, 2022
This week's testimony by Gen. Kenneth McKenize, Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmed that Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has evolved into an operational space for competing jihadi groups such as IS and al-Qaeda as well as a base for diverse Islamist groups to potentially launch attacks on the United States.
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Iran Applauds OIC Resolution for International Day to Combat Islamophobia
March 23, 2022
The Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) successfully mobilized inside the United Nations to lead a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution to establish March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia, an outcome signaling the strength of the 57-member state entity as a voting block inside the UN, with the Ambassador to the United Nations of Iran’s Islamic theocratic regime heralding the recognition that “Islamophobia is one of the main challenges confronting the international community.”
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Saudi Arabia Beheads 81 in Display of Islamist Autocratic Rule
March 23, 2022
Saudi Arabia’s Islamist autocratic regime beheaded 81 men last week in what international human rights organizations characterized as the largest mass execution in the country’s history, with arbitrary application of sharia law and systemic violations of due process used to mete out convictions on a crimes ranging from support for terrorism to “distortion of the reputation of the kingdom,” as well as to target the Sunni-majority country’s Shiite minority.
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Turkey Exports Islamism’s Ideology & Political Activism Worldwide
March 23, 2022
NATO-member Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate commands a multi-billion-dollar budget and a mandate to use religious soft power for the country’s foreign policy objectives, using a combination of mosque-building, heritage trips, parochial school-funding, and media platforms to promote radical Islamist ideology and Islamist political activism worldwide, with Western Europe and the United States included as targets for exporting Turkey’s Islamo-nationalist values and interests.
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