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Iran displayed a nuclear-capable ballistic missile during parades celebrating the country’s 1979 revolution over the weekend, reinforcing concerns that it is in violation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution implementing the nuclear deal, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday. The Ghadr (or Qadr) missile, according to Iranian military officials “can...

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Israel

Since announcing her engagement to Prince Harry last November, all eyes have been on Meghan Markle’s style. Coats, shoes, dresses and other fashion items worn by the bride-to-be have sold out in minutes. It’s no surprise that after she wore a bodysuit by Israeli designer Tuxe for an evening out with her...

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Referring to the downing of an Iranian drone that encroached on Israeli airspace and the Israeli Air Force’s subsequent strikes against government and Iranian targets located in Syria on Saturday, the United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on Sunday that “Israel has an absolute right to defends...

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MidEast

While a feud between Hamas, the terrorist group that rules Gaza, and the Fatah dominated Palestinian Authority that rules the West Bank, has threatened Gaza with a major health crisis, two Arab nations have pledged money to keep the generators in Gaza’s hospitals and medical centers running, Reuters reported on...

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Iran

The incursion on an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace and the subsequent Israeli response on Saturday shows that Israel considers Iran’s efforts “to consolidate their strategic position” in Syria and Lebanon to threaten the Jewish state “unsustainable,” two experts on the Middle East in an op-ed published Sunday in The...

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Human Rights

The Iranian regime said that a Canadian-Iranian environmentalist killed himself in prison last week after having been arrested two weeks earlier, the BBC reported Sunday. Authorities told the wife of Kavous Seyed-Emami on Friday that he had died in Iran’s infamous Evin prison. Emami’s son, Raam, an Iranian singer who...

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MidEast

The path to peace in the Middle East might be navigated not via a dove carrying an olive branch but by a lowly barn owl. Barn owls have been used in Israel since 1982 as an alternative to toxic chemicals for killing voles, which at the time plagued Israeli agricultural...

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The interception of an Iranian drone that targeted Israel suggests that the chances for a war between Israel and Iran-led forces, the first Israel-Shia war, have increased, General (ret.) Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel’s military intelligence told a conference call on Saturday. The call was hosted by The...

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Diplomacy

In March 2015, Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) posted a letter on his website, signed by 46 other Republican senators, arguing that any deal with Iran that was not approved by the United States Senate would just be an executive agreement that would not necessarily have force in American law...

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Diplomacy

Even without President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, the accord has been “endangered” because of the “lack of bipartisan support,” a former White House official wrote in an analysis for Foreign Policy, earlier this week. Michael Singh, a former member of the National Security...

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