ran Mastered Fake News Long Ago - I’ve Seen First Hand How They Influenced Washington

Independent Journal Review, Feb. 22, 2017 - Society is always ready to embrace buzz words and phrases. Almost always, these identifiers equate to new handles being attached to old tools. “Fake News

” is the latest example of what has long-since been identified as misinformation, false stories, truth distortion, slander campaigns, and a host of other monikers. Even psychological operations are based on planting stories to cause the recipients to change their perceptions, beliefs, and course of actions.

Iran is training its military college students in Syrian war zones

The Imam Hussein University

of the Revolutionary Guards has announced that it sent its students to fight in Syria and Iraq under a dedicated training program to prepare officers

Syrian Opposition Leader: Tehran the ’Main Obstacle’ To Peace Deal

Nasr al-Hariri, lead negotiator for Syria’s main opposition group, the High Negotiations Committee told reporters on February 23 that violations to a cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey have continued across the country, mainly because of Iran-backed militia fighting alongside the Syrian government

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Top general: No change in Iran’s behavior since Trump put country ’on notice’

The Hill, Feb. 23, 2017 - The top U.S. general said Thursday that he hasn’t seen a change in Iranian behavior since President Trump put the country “on notice” earlier this month.

Ahmad Montazeri must be freed

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) firmly condemns progressive cleric Ahmad Montazeri’s arrest yesterday. The editor of the website of his late father, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, he was returned to prison after being summoned before a special court for clerics.

Iranian Montrealer facing deportation can stay in Canada

CBC News,Feb 23, 2017 - Roghayeh Azizi Mirmahaleh, who was set to be deported to Iran next week,

has been granted a two-year temporary residency permit and can stay in Canada, her lawyer has confirmed.

The 60-year-old who lives in Montreal spent three years in an Iranian prison for political activism. Her husband was executed in Iran before she moved to Canada five years ago.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PUTS IRAN “ON NOTICE” AND ISSUES SANCTIONS. WHAT’S NEXT?

Barely a week after President Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president, Iran commenced another round of ballistic missiles to test his tough campaign rhetoric. The most recent launch took place even after the administration officially put the regime “on notice.” In doing so, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

continues to lead the charge in defying international will.