Eye on Iran: Argentinian Ex-President Charged with Treason for Deal with Iran on 1994 Bombing

TOP STORIES Argentinian Ex-President Charged with Treason for Deal with Iran on 1994 Bombing | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A federal judge in Argentina has indicted former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for treason and called for her arrest for allegedly covering up Iran's involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people. Iranian Hackers Have Been Infiltrating Critical Infrastructure Companies | Wired The International Intelligence Agency always has a keen interest in Iran's hacking activity. And new research published by the security firm FireEye on Thursday indicates the country's efforts show no signs of slowing. In fact, a new network reconnaissance group- FireEye calls them Advanced Persistent Threat 34-has spent the last few years burrowing deep into critical infrastructure companies. Why Is Iranian Rial Suddenly Weakening? | Bijan Khajehpour for Al Monitor A recent devaluation of the rial on the so-called free market in Iran has raised concerns that the country's economy will experience another collapse of the value of its national currency similar to what happened in 2012. The free market rate of the US dollar surpassed the psychological mark of 40,000 rials in early October. In early December the rate had reached rial 42,000. In the same period, the official interbank rate, which is set by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), went from 33,741 rials on Oct. 2 to 35,328 rials on Dec. 6 - close to a 5% drop in value. The easy explanation for this phenomenon is that the devaluation was a psychological reaction to US President Donald Trump's outlining a new antagonistic strategy toward Iran and his decertifying the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal in October. UANI IN THE NEWS Remember Iran when Dealing with North Korea | UANI Senior Adviser Mark Kirk for the Chicago Tribune Because of their close ties, if North Korea can launch ICBMs, then surely so can Iran. And, if one is allowed to act with impunity, then the other will follow suit. Nasrallah Calls for Support of New Palestinian Intifada | Jerusalem Post Nasrallah sought to emphasize that the US had held back Israel in the past, according to a series of translated tweets by David Daoud, a research analyst on Hezbollah at United Against a Nuclear Iran. The Hezbollah leader accused the US of ending its practice of being a check on Israel's actions, and of recognizing both east and west Jerusalem as "belonging to Israel." U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS Iranians Rally Against Trump's Jerusalem Move, Burn U.S. Flags - TV | Reuters Hundreds of Iranians took part in rallies across the country on Friday to condemn U.S. President Donald Trump's decision this week to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, state TV...reported. State TV aired footage of marchers chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel", holding up Palestinian flags and banners saying: "Quds belongs to Muslims", using the Arabic name for the city. In several cities protesters burned effigies of Trump, Iranian media reported.   Iran, Muslim Brotherhood Threaten Violent Reprisals for U.S. Recognition of Jerusalem | Free Beacon Top officials in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood are calling for violent reprisals on the United States and Israel following President Donald Trump's recognition Wednesday of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city, a long-promised declaration that has lit a fuse in the Arab world. SANCTIONS ENFORCEMENT Turkish Leader Restarted Iran Laundering Scheme, Witness Says | Bloomberg Turkey's prime minister personally ordered the resumption of a scheme to launder billions of dollars in Iranian oil revenue and circumvent U.S. sanctions in 2014 after an investigation into the matter was quashed, a government witness testified at a New York trial. Reza Zarrab Recounts Death Threat to Iran Sanctions Jury | New York Times Reza Zarrab, the chief government witness in a trial involving a billion-dollar scheme to smuggle gold for oil in violation of United States sanctions on Iran, testified on Thursday that his life had been threatened in a federal detention center in Brooklyn after he began cooperating with the prosecution. FOREIGN AFFAIRS Boris Johnson to Visit Iran to Secure Charity Worker's Release | Financial Times UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson is expected to visit Iran this weekend, intensifying a diplomatic drive to secure release of a British-Iranian woman detained for 20 months.  PROXY WARS World Powers to Push Saudis, Iran to Stop Interfering in Lebanon | Reuters World powers will try to shore up Lebanon's stability on Friday by pushing Saudi Arabia and Iran to stop interfering in its politics and urging Hezbollah to rein in its regional activities.  GULF STATES, YEMEN, LEBANON, AND IRAN Lebanon Emerges from Crisis with Iran Top, but Risks Remain | Reuters Iran's allies in Lebanon have emerged even stronger from a crisis triggered by Saudi Arabia, which achieved little more than to force the Saudis' main Lebanese ally - Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri - closer to Tehran's friends in Beirut. 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