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Reuters reported Thursday that negotiations between the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) and Iran – aimed at securing inspector access to sites where the Iranians are suspected of having conducted military-related atomic work – “appear not to have substantively advanced,” with the agency tersely announcing that “Iran did not propose any...

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Satellite imagery released Wednesday by Israeli media outlets revealed that a previously reported Monday explosion has done significant damage to Iran’s military facility at Parchin, where the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog (IAEA) believes Iranian scientists conducted research into the development of nuclear warheads: Satellite images obtained by Israel Defense and...

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The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Iranian back Houthi rebels are preventing the formation of a new government in Yemen. President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi named a top aide, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, to the post, the official news agency Saba reported. But the Houthi rebels said in a...

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According to a Reuters report on Wednesday, Iran has defended its refusal to allow an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert from inspecting its nuclear sites in August on grounds that “it had a sovereign right to decide who to admit onto its territory.” It was the third time the...

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Just a day after Hezbollah launched a double bomb attack against Israeli soldiers, the leader of Lebanon’s pro-Western March 14 bloc Saad al-Hariri warned that Hezbollah is leading Lebanon into the “unknown”. Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Wednesday said Hezbollah’s latest operation against Israel in the border area of Shebaa was...

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Ghoncheh Ghavami, the female British-Iranian law student who was arrested by Iranian authorities for trying to attend volleyball game played by male athletes in Iran, has begun a hunger strike yesterday, as reported by Fox News. She has been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for 100 days. Law student Ghoncheh...

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