“U.S. Says Iran Forces Boarded Ship in International Waters,” Sebastian Tong, Stephen Stapczynski, and Kevin Varley, Bloomberg, August 12, 2020.

This article details some of the bad actors Iran uses to spread weapons and ideology in the Crescent.  It is up to the UN and its interested member states to keep this list as up to date as possible.  And enforce it.  “Renew the Travel Ban on Iran,” Jason Brodsky, op-ed, Newsweek, August 12, 2020.

Call it a Revolution or Resistance.  “The head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Yadallah Jawani, revealed the “main reason” for the assassination of the commander of the Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, by the U.S., claiming that “it was a strategic goal through which they sought to stop the resistance in the region and change the course of developments that were in the interest of the resistance.””  See “Iran’s IRGC Reveals ‘Main Reason’ Qassem Soleimani Was Assassinated,” Kashmir Observer, August 12, 2020.