Iran

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated that last Friday’s arrest of a Hezbollah terrorist in Cyprus pointed to a large-scale terror campaign by the Iranian-backed terror group against Israeli targets in Europe, Reuters reported today. Speaking to reporters, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon described the suspect’s apartment as “a hideout, which according to what to...

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A nuclear deal with Iran is “useless” if it does not allow inspectors to check military sites, French Foerign Minister Laurent Fabius told (Google link) The Wall Street Journal today. Fabius said if Tehran wanted to build a nuclear weapon in violation of an international agreement, it would inevitably do so at a...

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A member of Iran’s negotiating team said that inspections of military sites, deemed essential to ensuring that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon, “has never been on the agenda in our negotiations,” The Jerusalem Post reported today. Iran has repeatedly ruled out “alien” inspections into any of its military...

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Iranian-backed militias that are designated as terror organizations by the U.S. government are increasingly taking charge of the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq in the wake of the fall of the city of Ramadi, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Iraq’s two main allies...

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A Lebanese-Canadian man with ties to the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah was arrested while in possession of an estimated two tons worth of a compound that can be used for explosives, Agence France-Presse reported today. The Phileleftheros newspaper said the 26-year-old man, who was remanded in custody on Thursday, belonged...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference that he supported the “general idea” of the Arab Peace Initiative (API) The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The Arab Peace Initiative, originally proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, has many problematic aspects to it, the prime minister said, such as its...

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