Defectors Tell of Torture and Forced Sterilization in Militant Iranian Cult
Interviews with six defectors, including several who held senior positions, offer the most detailed account to date of what life was like inside the MEK.
Decades of hostilities broke out into war during Donald Trump’s second term after Israel and the U.S. launched unprovoked attacks against Iran.
Interviews with six defectors, including several who held senior positions, offer the most detailed account to date of what life was like inside the MEK.
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Millions of Iranians could lose their lives from the novel coronavirus outbreak. The Trump administration has refused to budge.
Iran’s determination to hit back despite the pandemic contradicts the Trump administration view that killing Qassim Suleimani was a deterrent.
After Qassim Suleimani’s assassination, we may already be at war with Iran. Yet the regime change policy won’t work out how Trump wants it to.
The House passed two measures aimed at restricting the president’s war powers, including a bipartisan amendment sponsored by Reps. Ro Khanna and Matt Gaetz.
The continued self-confidence of neocons like David Wurmser is odd given how all their beliefs were proven disastrously wrong in Iraq.
Jeremy Scahill moderates a discussion on the Iran crisis with columnist Mehdi Hasan, reporter Murtaza Hussain, and editors Vanessa Gezari and Ali Gharib.
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The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan, Murtaza Hussain, Vanessa Gezari, and Ali Gharib are this week’s guests.
The operation targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, commander of the Yemen division of Iran’s elite Quds Force, near the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
A chorus of talking heads celebrated Trump’s killing of an Iranian leader. Few of them disclosed their ties to defense contractors.
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