A Lebanese-born permanent resident of the United States was sentenced by an Iranian revolutionary court to ten years in prison for spying, The Guardian reported Tuesday. Nizzar Zakka, an internet freedom activist, disappeared last September after attending a conference in Tehran. His arrest was first reported in November. Zakka had been invited by one...

A top Hezbollah official acknowledged that the Iran-backed terrorist group has been blocking the appointment of a new Lebanese president, Ya Libnan reported Sunday. Hezbollah’s second-in-command Naim Qassem said that the Future Movement, a political party primarily supported by Lebanese Sunnis, must “end its hesitation” and support the Hezbollah-backed presidential candidate Michel Aoun,...

The Obama administration wired money to Iran on two separate occasions in the past 14 months, undercutting claims that it delivered a $400 million payment to the Islamic Republic in cash because it was strict in enforcing sanctions, Politico reported on Saturday. The U.S. government wired about $848,000 to Iran in July 2015 in order to...

Asked if he was one of the Israeli defense officials who President Barack Obama claimed considered the nuclear deal with Iran a success, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday that he didn’t know any security officials who felt that way. After a wide-ranging presentation at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that partially...

Iran is determined to open up a terrorist front against Israel by strengthening Hezbollah’s fortifications on the Golan Heights, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned on Thursday. “The dozens or so attacks perpetrated from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights against us, it was Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces...

At a time when Iranian forces are increasingly engaging in dangerous confrontations with U.S. naval vessels, an Iranian admiral called on America to the leave the Persian Gulf, Iran’s semi-official Fars News reported on Wednesday. Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy, said that the U.S. should withdraw its fleet from...