Iran Threatens Gulf Countries Making Peace with Israel

Iran is escalating threats toward the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain after the United States helped broker peace deals between Israel and the two Gulf states.

Following the peace agreements between both Israel with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and the normalization of the relationships between the latter countries to Israel, sponsored by the United States, the Iranian regime escalated its threats towards both countries in an unprecedented manner.

Iran has tried to carry out attacks in Bahrain before. It foiled a terrorist plot in March 2018, arresting a militant cell comprised of 116 IRGC members. "The network was planning to target Bahraini officials, members of the security services… vital oil facilities and industries, with an aim to disturb security and public order and undermine the national economy," Bahrain's Interior Ministry alleged. Iran rejected the Bahraini accusations as "baseless, repetitive accusations."

Iran still sponsors some of the Middle East's most notorious terrorist groups including Hamas, Hizballah and Yemen's Houthi rebels. The Houthis threatened to target UAE cities last month. The UAE and Bahrain are members of the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen.

https://www.investigativeproject.org/8586/iran-threatens-gulf-countries-making-peace-with

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Silent Death of Iran’s Economy: Sanctions or Mismanagement, Which To Blame?

Iran’s economy is collapsing. The mullahs’ regime and its apologists consider sanctions as the real damaging factor. But state-run media and economists identify mismanagement as the real problem of Iran’s economy.

Sanctions coupled with four decades of economic mismanagement in Iran have decreased the value of Iran’s currency, in what is the silent death of Iran’s economy.

When the mullahs’ regime signed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), billions of dollars were given to the regime. Yet, the mullahs used this huge amount of money to fund their proxy terrorist groups. As a result, more people became poor. The unbridled inflation rate and high prices initiated the first series of nationwide Iran protests in January 2018. People were chanting “Let go of Syria, think of us” in the face of the mullahs’ costly support of Bashar-al Assad’s dictatorship since 2011.

https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/economy/silent-death-of-irans-economy-sanctions-or-mismanagement-which-to-blame/