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Diplomacy

Citing his administration’s continued concerns with the weaknesses in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, President Donald Trump indicated that he will waive nuclear sanctions on Iran for the last time unless the nations involved in the nuclear deal address the flaws in the deal, The Hill reported Friday. The...

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Diplomacy

When President Barack Obama was interviewed by The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg in 2015 about the soon to be agreed on nuclear deal with Iran, Goldberg pressed the president on the wisdom of trusting Iran to act rationally, he responded: Well the fact that you are anti-Semitic, or racist, doesn’t preclude...

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Human Rights

Germany has allowed Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the former head of Iran’s judiciary accused of crimes against humanity, to flee the country on Thursday for Iran, after the cleric received medical treatment for a brain tumor, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. آيت الله فراري! pic.twitter.com/h1D3DfE5Dk — Potkin Azarmehr...

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Iran

In the wake of a Politico report last month that the Obama administration dismantled an investigation into Hezbollah’s drug smuggling in order to secure the nuclear deal with Iran, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the formation of a team to investigate the terror group’s involvement in the drug trade, Politico reported...

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Israel

Following all-night negotiations, Israeli Cabinet ministers on Friday morning unanimously approved a 2019 state budget of NIS 397.4 billion ($117 billion), which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised would ensure the political stability the government needed to survive until the end of its term late next year. Netanyahu welcomed the agreement...

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Israel

A 13-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip received a lifesaving kidney donation from his brother, an undergraduate student in Algeria, in an operation performed at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The result: a functional kidney, a reunion between family members, and proof that conflict doesn’t penetrate hospital doors. It wasn’t...

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Iran

The recent protests against the Iranian regime have been fueled by the corruption of the government that has ruined Iran’s economy since the 2015 nuclear deal Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote Wednesday in an analysis for Real Clear Investigations. Smith described the protests as political but...

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Israel

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, who was elected to a four-year term 13 years ago this week, has presided over an “exacerbated crisis of corruption” in the PA even as he has practiced “his own distinct style of nepotism” to enrich his family, Grant Rumley, a research fellow at...

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Europe

Three pro-Israel activists are facing a €100 ($120) fine or two days in jail for waving an Israeli flag at an Austrian pro-Palestinian rally at which anti-Semitic slogans were shouted, Benjamin Weinthal reported Wednesday for The Jerusalem Post. The three students were at a rally near the American embassy in Vienna,...

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MidEast

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s, said in a string of comments posted on his Twitter account on Tuesday that the “U.S and Zionists” were behind the anti-government protests in the Islamic Republic and threatened this action would have consequences. “U.S. officials should know that, firstly, they have missed their...

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