Iranian leaders threatened “to turn Saudi Arabia into hell,” over the last few days in response to a decision by a Saudi court to sentence the Shi’ite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr to death. A day later Iran carried out a wave of arrests against Sunni clerics. The tit-for-tat exchange...

On Wednesday, the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar, affiliated with the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, reported that a senior Hamas official recently met with Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon. The Hamas official, serving as a representative on behalf of the Sunni terror group currently ruling the Gaza Strip, came for a private, off the...

Major outlets and wires focused Wednesday on the dynamics of talks between the P5+1 global powers and Iran – per Agence France-Presse (AFP), Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to further discuss the looming nuclear talks deadline: “We only have 40 days left to the...

The Obama administration was pressed on Tuesday to respond to statements from Iranian officials – most recently this weekend from the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – doubling down on Iranian conditions for a nuclear deal that would among other things see the Islamic republic massively expand, rather than...

Citing a report on CNN Arabic, Al Arabiya reported Monday that the son of Imad Mughniyeh is now commanding Hezbollah’s operations on the Syrian border with Israel. Jihad Mughniyeh, whose father Imad was killed in 2008 in a car bomb attack in the Syrian capital of Damascus, is said to be...

The Washington Times reported yesterday that despite the hope for moderation with the election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran, executions in the Islamic Republic have surged since his inauguration. During the 14 months since Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took office, Iranian authorities have carried out at least 936...