Iran

Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, told the Hamas-affiliated newspaper al-Resalah that Tehran “reject[s] the existence of any Israeli on this earth,” a position he says Iran relayed to the P5+1 powers during the nuclear negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. According to Sheikholeslam, Iran...

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Rep. Ed Royce (R – Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, criticized the side deal between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran in a statement released yesterday. The deal authorizes Iran, rather than the IAEA, to collect evidence from its suspected nuclear research site at the Parchin military base. It is...

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The Israel Defense Forces identified an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Qods Force general as being responsible for yesterday’s rocket attacks into northern Israel and, in retaliation, launched a series of raids against Syrian military targets, The Times of Israel reported today. According to a senior Israeli security official, Saeed...

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Israel struck several targets inside Syria in retaliation for four rockets that hit the northern Galilee and Golan Heights late Thursday afternoon, The Times of Israel reported today. The Israeli military said it fired artillery shells at several Syrian targets Thursday evening, hours after four rockets were fired into Israel...

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Rather than preventing war, the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will stoke Tehran’s regional ambitions and increase the likelihood of a major regional conflict, Joshua Muravchik, a distinguished fellow at the World Affairs Institute, wrote yesterday in an analysis for The Weekly Standard....

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A video depicting an invasion of Jerusalem by Iranian troops and Tehran’s proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, was released on a website affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The Times of Israel reported yesterday. The clip, in boxy computer animation reminiscent of video games from the mid-1990s, opens with...

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