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<title>Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program: How We Got Here</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31443/iran-nuclear-weapons-program</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Introduction This Iranian regime's nuclear weapons program has been abundantly documented in the Open Source literature for decades. But in response to questions about why Israel and the United States (U.S.) decided in June 2025 that they could wait no...</description>
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<title>Iran Doesn't Think Like Us, Will Continue to String World Along</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31403/iran-strings-the-world-along</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>In a April 17, 2026 "Beyond the Ideological" Substack post, "The IRGC's Eschatological Gamble and the Arab World's Verdict," Zineb Riboua explains some important realities about how the Iranian regime's leadership – clerical and Revolutionary Guards – or...</description>
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<title>Fethullah Gulen No Longer With Us, Yet His Influence Endures</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31329/fethullah-gulen</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish Muslim imam scholar who headed the Gulen Movement for decades, is no longer with us, having passed away at the age of 83 in October 2024 – but his extensive network of Islamic charter schools remains and looks to be expanding...</description>
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<title>Muslim Brotherhood Held a Secret Meeting in Advance of Iran Regime Takedown</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31298/muslim-brotherhood-secret-meeting</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Mostly unnoticed in the recent flurry of world events, from the lightning fast seizure and extradition of Venezuelan dictator, Nicolas Maduro, by the United States (U.S.) in a 2-3 January 2026 overnight raid to the ongoing U.S. and Israeli takedown of...</description>
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<title>Turkey Hosts a Secret Meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31292/turkey-muslim-brotherhood</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Mostly unnoticed in the recent flurry of world events, from the people's uprising in the streets of Iran to the lightning fast seizure and extradition of Venezuelan dictator, Nicolas Maduro, by the United States (U.S.) in a 2-3 January 2026 overnight...</description>
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<title>Iranians Determined to Regain Liberty, They May Well Succeed</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31209/iranians-determined-to-regain-liberty</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Iran has been convulsed with popular revolts since the 1979 overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as the Iranian people realized their drastic mistake in replacing a monarchy with a brutal theocratic dictatorship. It's now been 47 years since the...</description>
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<title>The Muslim Brotherhood: Terrorists or Subversives?</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31162/muslim-brotherhood-terrorists-subversives</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>On Nov. 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the State and Treasury Departments to begin the process of deciding whether to designate some select branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist...</description>
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<title>Muslim Brotherhood Subversion Targets All of Western Civilization</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/31151/muslim-brotherhood-subversion</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Twelve years ago, in 2013, the Gatestone Institute published an in-depth account of the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration operations vs. the U.S. government (written by this author). The vicious outburst of antisemitic Jew-hatred that followed the...</description>
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<title>Iran's Fatwa Against Trump a Declaration of War</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/28716/iran-fatwa-trump</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Iran's Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi declared a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 29. A fatwa is a religious decree on a matter of Islamic law that is issued by a senior Islamic jurist....</description>
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<title>Israel Has Iran's 'Desert Nuclear Plan' In Its Sights</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/28659/iran-desert-nuclear-plan</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Information obtained by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) brings together multiple reports about Iran's nuclear weapons program. Earlier revelations about weapons sites including Parchin, Sanjarian, Semnan, and Shahrud are now understood...</description>
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<title>Will the Trump Administration Follow the Antisemitism Trail Wherever It Leads?</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/28528/antisemitism-muslim-brotherhood</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The Trump administration has taken a series of decisive, direct steps and executive actions that make clear its intention to end the chaos of antisemitism on American campuses and streets. But will it follow the trail of foreign funding and influence...</description>
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<title>Iran on Cusp of Deployable Nuclear Weapons</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/28468/iran-cusp-nuclear-weapons</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2025 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Speaking before a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25, 2025, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated in her opening remarks that "The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme...</description>
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<title>Iran Racing to Fit Warheads to Missiles</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/28376/iran-nuclear-warheads-missiles</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 3 Feb 2025 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Time is running short on efforts to stop the Iranian regime's nuclear weapons development before its warheads and missiles are fitted together and ready to deploy and deliver to targets both near and far. At a January 31 press briefing, Deputy Director...</description>
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<title>Tehran Accelerating Nuclear Weapons Efforts</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/28302/iran-nuclear-weapons-efforts</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>In an important press update briefing of Dec. 19, 2024, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) regime opposition group reported on accelerated work by Iran to develop Exploding Bridgewire (EBW) nuclear detonators. According to the Nov. 8, 2011...</description>
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<title>Never Underestimate the Global Harm Iran Can Inflict</title>
<link>http://lopez.pundicity.com/27986/iran-global-harm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The Iranian regime's full court press against former U.S. President and current Republican Party presidential candidate Donald J. Trump continues across a spectrum of operations. The Tehran regime's fear of a second Trump administration in the White...</description>
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