Benjamin Weinthal
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Benjamin Weinthal is a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum.
Contributor
Benjamin Weinthal is a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum.
A crackdown on the Iranian Baha'is in Isfahan has prompted German-Iranians to urge the mayor of the southwestern German city of Freiburg to pull the plug on its municipal partnership with Isfahan.
While the UN has accused Israel of exacerbating hunger in Gaza, Iran International observed aid deliveries entering the territory through the Kerem Shalom crossing. However, it could not verify whether the food was reaching those in need.
Germany's intelligence services are investigating alleged espionage activities involving 700 people linked to the Iranian state-run Al-Mustafa Institute in Berlin, according to the Bild newspaper.
SOUTH LEBANON—The vast Hezbollah tunnel system built below the Shiite village of Rab El Thalathine is less than 2.5 kilometers from the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona.
Jews in Iran are being pressured by the authorities to publicly mourn the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, known for his antisemitic ideology.
Just a day before the fourth anniversary of the execution of champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari, the Islamic Republic reportedly hanged a second decorated Greco-Roman wrestler, Morteza Yousefi, on Wednesday.
Exactly one year ago, Iran International published an article featuring Middle East expert Yigal Carmon’s prediction that an Iranian regime-backed terrorist group would attack Israel in the fall of 2023.
A coalition of Iranian human rights activists and dissident groups has urged the Körber Foundation in Germany to sever ties with the government in Iran.
Iran's security forces stormed the German Embassy-affiliated language school in Tehran on Tuesday, shutting down its operations in what appears to be a retaliatory move for Berlin’s closure of the Khamenei-controlled Islamic Center of Hamburg and the Blue Mosque.
The German government deported the Iran-linked Imam of the Islamic Center in Berlin, Nasir Niknejad in late June, according to information obtained by Iran International's correspondent in Berlin.
The Utah-based Baskerville Institute, has sparked controversy by hosting a secretive conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, attended by Iranian supporters of sanctioned terrorist Qasem Soleimani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Germany-based Iranian dissident Mina Ahadi has accused Iran's newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian of violently enforcing the hijab on women at a university in 1979, well before it became mandatory.
The Iranian-American campaign to oust a former top official of the Islamic Republic from his job at Princeton University reached the northern German port city of Hamburg on Thursday.
In early 2024, as the US and Qatar quietly extended the use of America’s largest military base in the Persian Gulf, they appeared united in their support for US military activities from Al Udeid Air Base.
The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency reportedly paid hard cash to a US sanctioned Iranian regime atomic weapons scientist in Vienna in early 2022 and sent Tehran-controlled nuclear researchers to Russia for training.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated its ongoing conflict with Israel into a potential full-scale war on Monday by launching drones and missiles into Israeli territory, causing massive fires in the north.
The economic powerhouse of Europe, Germany, along with a number of other European countries are pushing the EU to classify the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
A Berlin-based think tank slammed for hosting a former Iranian ambassador accused of terror ties, has deleted the public announcement of the event after backlash.
Over 70 Iranians staged a protest in Princeton University on Friday, demanding that the Ivy League university fire Iranian government insider, Seyed Hossein Mousavian.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is stoking violent discontent against the Hashemite Kingdom, with a view toward gaining control over Jordan as part of an expanded “Shiite Crescent.”
Veteran Israeli experts suggest that Iran is unlikely to retaliate directly against Israel for a surgical missile attack that killed two top IRGC generals and five additional officers in Damascus.
Following a German court's ruling attributing Iran's regime to a foiled 2022 terrorist plot targeting a synagogue in Bochum, many have urged Berlin to close Tehran's embassy and designate the IRGC as a terrorist entity.
Princeton University controversial academic, Hossein Mousavian, who is currently being investigated by the US Congress for his pro-Iran regime activities, now faces a grassroots Iranian-American campaign to secure his dismissal.
The tiny Jewish community in Tehran is facing intense pressure from the clerical regime to mobilize its members to vote on Friday in the parliamentary elections.
Israeli experts closely monitoring Iran perceive the defeat of Hamas as pivotal in curbing the influence of Iran and Hezbollah’s aggressive tendencies.
Iran’s Jews and non-Muslims have been forced to attend celebrations of the Islamic revolution as the regime continues to fight for credibility on the eve of upcoming elections.
The American physicist and nuclear expert, David Albright, has issued a shocking new report that Iran needs roughly a week to develop uranium for its first atomic weapon.
The Istanbul-based correspondent for the German public TV station ARD sparked anger over his report that claimed all Iranians worship IRGC’s late Qasem Soleimani.
A German paper reported on Monday that a classified EU document states that IRGC can be sanctioned as a terrorist organization in Europe, despite assertions to the contrary by some politicians.
Iranians pressed a German mayor with ties to the Iranian city of Esfahan to use his leverage to secure the freedom of detained dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi.
Oberlin College has placed Iran’s former UN ambassador, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, on indefinite leave from his teaching position after a campaign by Iranian Americans.
The German human rights commissioner who rebuffed Iranian female dissidents on Thursday, reportedly views the hijab as a form of emancipation for women.
The prominent Iranian-American dissident Masih Alinejad on Thursday blasted the German government for seeking to impose a gag order on her meeting to discuss the repression of women in the Islamic Republic.
Israeli government officials were today renewing their efforts to intensify the pressure on the EU and Germany to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity.
Princeton's Hossein Mousavian has been drawn out of the shadows by a congressional probe into his alleged failure to help rescue Xiyue Wang from captivity in Iran.
Germany's federal police raided the Islamic Center of Hamburg on suspicions of support for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, accused of terrorism.
The scandal-plagued Iranian ex-ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, is being investigated for allegedly promoting Hamas and antisemitism at Oberlin College.
Among the questions that keep popping up in the Iran-backed Hamas’ war against Israel is this: Why hasn’t Germany sanctioned the IRGC?
Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen issued a mild back-handed slap at Qatar’s pro-Hamas policy this week but his message was stymied by a compliment for Doha from Jerusalem’s National Security Adviser.
Beverly Hills appears to be the first-ever US city to condemn the Iranian and Qatari governments for supporting the militant group Hamas, which massacred civilians in Israel.
The Islamic Republic of Iran revealed again on Wednesday that it exerts considerable pressure on the country’s tiny Jewish community to denigrate Israel.
Israel’s declaration to dismantle the Iran-backed Hamas in the Gaza Strip for its terror attack could have consequences for the Iranian regime.
Following a recent exclusive report by Iran International, Germany’s Export Control agency announced a probe into possible Iran sanctions violations by German firms.
Exclusively reported by Iran International, German and Austrian firms reportedly joined the Iran Oil Show in May, run by the US-sanctioned National Iranian Oil Company.
The one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s murder coincides with the Jewish New Year on September 16, prompting community leaders to warn Jews to stay off the streets.
Israeli intelligence minister, Gila Gamliel, on Wednesday met Iranian journalists and activists in London, where she called on Iran’s opposition to unite.
A former counter-terrorism advisor to two Israeli prime ministers triggered an intense debate about whether Iranian proxies will attack Israel in September or October.
The prominent think tank Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) in early August revealed that Qatar’s former prime minister made misleading remarks about Iran.
A leading Israeli security expert has told Iran International that Khamenei’s regime will use the $6 billion hostage payment to “suppress the Iranian people.”
German Iranians are demanding the state government of Hesse shut down the pro-Iran regime Center for Islamic Culture in Frankfurt that honored Qasem Soleimani.
The scandal surrounding the German corporation Bosch’s delivery of surveillance technology to Iran has expanded to include Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and China.
The giant German engineering firm Bosch reportedly aided Iran’s security forces in facial recognition technology in 2017 and delivered thousands of street cameras.
German-Iranians blasted Freiburg’s municipal government in Germany for voting last week to retain a twin city partnership with the Iranian city of Esfahan.
The International Olympic Committee says it is observing a dramatic increase of persecution of Iranian athletes and may act before the 2024 Olympic games in Paris.
Reports about a serious human rights violator from Iran being treated in a private clinic in Germany have stirred sharp controversy among Iranians and German media.
Iran systematically summons, interrogates and often detains family members of dissidents, who are either themselves in prison, killed during protests or fled abroad.
The intelligence agencies of European countries determined that the Islamic Republic of Iran sought nuclear weapons technology during 2022.
