White House nominee for secretary of defense position, Ash Carter attended the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. In response to the committee members’ concerns on Iranian threat, Carter pointed to two biggest threats in the Middle East: ISIS and Iran.

When asked by Sen. Jack Reed,D-R.I., if ISIS was the greatest threat in the Middle East Carter said there was a dual threat to the region posed by both ISIS and Iran. “I hesitate to say ISIL only, because in the back of my mind is Iran, as well,” said Carter. “So I think that we have two immediate, substantial dangers in the Middle East. One is [ISIS] and one is Iran.”

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Alberto Nisman, the murdered prosecutor who was working on 1994 Amia bombing, was going to indict President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. New York Times has reported that the draft of a request for the arrest was found in the garbage at Nisman’s apartment.

Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped Argentina, had drafted a request for the arrest of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accusing her of trying to shield Iranian officials from responsibility in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, the lead investigator into his death said Tuesday.

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An Iranian-born business owner in Los Angeles is under investigation for abusing a federal program called EB-5. This program offers wealthy investors from other countries to obtain entry visa to US and eventually a permanent resident. According to ABC News, Alireza Madavi of American Logistics, a shipping and trucking company based in Carson California is under investigation for facilitating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to exploit the visa program to infiltrate the US. There are connections between the said person and the network of Iranian lobby in the US. Mahdavi was a member of Iranian Trade Association, a San Diego Based lobby group against sanctions on Iran. In this report, Mahdavi expresses his hope that the United States to lift the economic sanctions it placed on Iran.

The records show that the TTC employee was suspected of ties to an Iranian terror network that was involved in bombing plots and attempted assassinations. In 2012, federal investigators sent an email to immigration officials to advise them against re-certifying American Logistics for the immigration program, warning that an approval “would likely have serious national security implications.”