MidEast

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that the Islamic Republic intends to send a “fleet of warships” to the Atlantic Ocean, The Times of Israel reported Thursday, citing Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. “Our warships will soon berth at ports in the Atlantic Ocean,” Navy Commander Rear Admiral...

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Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations investigator of human rights in Iran, called the high rate of executions he monitors an “unprecedented assault on the right to life in Iran,” The New York Times reported Wednesday. His most striking criticism dwelled on what rights advocates have called Iran’s increasing rate of...

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Micah Lakin Avni, the son of Richard Lakin, an American-Israeli teacher and peace activist who died earlier this week due to injuries sustained in a Palestinian terror attack two weeks ago, said that his father was the victim of “incitement and hate,” The New York Times reported Thursday. My father...

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Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani admitted that the Islamic Republic had initially launched its nuclear program in order to have the option of developing nuclear weapons, according to a translation of an interview published Wednesday by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). As I have said, when we...

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The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the scandal-ridden UN body that works with Palestinian refugees, spoke Monday at an event sponsored by the UK-based charity Interpal, which was designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing the Palestinian terror group Hamas. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness spoke at an event for...

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A Hamas official went on the terrorist organization’s TV station to inform Palestinians that Allah had created man “to plunge their knives in the chests and bellies of the enemies,” The Times of Israel reported today. In an address broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 19, former Gaza interior minister Fathi...

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