Israel’s emergency authority said it will need 500 million shekels ($130 million) a year for five years to improve its defenses against the Iran-backed terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah, Haaretz reported on Monday. Israel currently spends about 200 million shekels each year on home front preparedness, beyond the sum included in...

In an apparent reaction to Iran’s increasing isolation from the Arab world, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the growing ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia a “stab in the back” of the Muslim world, Iranian media reported on Monday. Revelation of Saudi government’s relations with Zionist regime was stab...

Iraq’s prime minister officially incorporated the Iran-backed, terrorist-led Popular Mobilization Front (PMF) into his nation’s armed forces, cementing Tehran’s influence in the country, the Long War Journal reported on Thursday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi decided to incorporate the PMF as an “independent military formation” within the Iraqi army in February, according...

Iranian crude oil exports to four major Asian buyers increased by nearly 50 percent from this time last year, Reuters reported on Friday. Iranian oil sales reached the highest point in over four years in June, six months after the U.S. and European Union lifted nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran under the framework of...

An Iranian general threatened to close the strategic Straits of Hormuz if the United States “makes a small mistake,” echoing a threat made two months ago by the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iranian media reported on Tuesday. “If the enemy makes a small mistake, we...

Iran was ranked as the world’s top global money laundering threat by the Basel Institute on Governance this week, marking the third straight year that the Islamic Republic held the position. The 2016 Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index identified Iran as the highest money laundering risk out of 149 countries surveyed, The...