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The Alavi Foundation is the successor organization to the Pahlavi Foundation, a nonprofit group used by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to advance Iran's charitable interests in America. [4] Most of the charity's income is from rent collected on the Piaget Building, a skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The building was built in 1978 for ...
650 Fifth Avenue (formerly known as the Piaget Building and the Pahlavi Foundation Building) is a 36-story 150 m (490 ft) building at Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by John Carl Warnecke & Associates [ 1 ] for the Pahlavi Foundation, an organization run by the then-Shah of Iran ...
The Axis of Resistance [a] is an informal coalition of Iranian-supported militias and political organizations across the Middle East. [30] Formed by Iran, it unites actors committed to countering the influence of the United States and Israel in the region.
Iran's policy of arming militias took root in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Proxy forces armed by Iran could take part in retaliation against Israel over Hamas leader's killing ...
The United States has tightly restricted the travel of more than a dozen Iranian diplomats and their families living in New York, according to a U.S. diplomatic note to sent to the Iran mission to ...
Iran is in desperate need of a new proxy — one that provides it with some leverage to threaten U.S. interests in the region. They may have found that proxy in al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based ...
[1] [2] Iranian nationals Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri were charged on 11 October 2011 in federal court in New York with plotting to assassinate Al-Jubeir. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] According to U.S. officials, the two planned to kill Al-Jubeir at a restaurant with a bomb and subsequently bomb the Saudi embassy and the Israeli embassy in ...
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC; Persian: شورای ملی ایرانیان آمریکا) is a lobbying group widely viewed as the de facto "Iran Lobby" in Washington, D.C. due to its history of lobbying for stances on behalf of, and aligned with, the Islamic Republic of Iran.