MidEast

The editors of The Washington Post celebrated Iran’s release of their reporter Jason Rezaian along with three other Americans in exchange for Iranian prisoners, but nonetheless warned in an editorial published Sunday that absent stronger action from the administration, “Iran’s attacks on Americans and vital U.S. interests will surely continue.” The editorial noted that the four...

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Four high-profile Americans who were being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison have been freed, U.S. officials announced on Saturday, although two other U.S. nationals will remain incarcerated in Iran. The Obama administration, meanwhile, has agreed to release seven Iranians currently in American custody and to drop its pursuit of...

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A senior member of Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, publicly accused the United States of creating ISIS to advance an “infernal plot to dismantle the Arab nation, split it, and kill its spirit of solidarity.” Abbas Zaki, who serves on Fatah’s Central Committee and has on several...

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The seizure of two American naval vessels and their crews earlier this week is the latest “hostile act” carried out by Iran against the United States, Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote in The Weekly Standard on Friday. Since the announcement of the nuclear deal, Iran...

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Israel is intensifying efforts to strengthen ties with Sunni Arab states in the wake of rising regional instability following the nuclear deal with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. The Journal identified several public examples of rapprochement between Israel and Arab states, all made in an effort “to...

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Agili-C, a cartilage regenerating technology from Israeli startup CartiHeal that could revolutionize treatment for cartilage damage and osteoarthritis, is preparing for a 2017 launch in the European market. In addition to its original indication for patients with knee cartilage damaged by traumatic injury, the biological scaffold is now being tested...

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