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European companies that insist on doing business with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will “do so at great risk,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday in Saudi Arabia. Tillerson’s remarks were made in a meeting with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who had been the target of a 2011...

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Iran has sentenced to death a man it implicated in the assassination of several senior nuclear scientists and accused of being a spy for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary news agency on Tuesday as saying that “the person had...

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A week and a half ago, President Donald Trump took the first, crucial step towards ending a significant portion of the foreign policy legacy that had been bequeathed to the nation by his predecessor President Barack Obama: the nuclear deal with Iran. What has been largely forgotten by the public is that this...

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A new poll showed that 70% of Americans support renegotiating and strengthening the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and having the resulting deal approved by Congress instead of implementing it as an executive agreement, as former President Obama did in 2015, The Hill reported Monday. A majority of those polled supported these positions...

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A reality show set on an Israeli kibbutz is on the BBC’s 2018 broadcast schedule, according to press reports. The British TV network is recruiting 10 Jewish participants of various ages and backgrounds to fly over from the UK and spend two weeks volunteering on a kibbutz, an Israeli farming...

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A deputy leader of the Gaza-based terror group Hamas, said that Iran is the “main and primary benefactor” of Hamas, as he visited Tehran, while Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are engaged in reconciliation talks. Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy political chief who was in Tehran leading a delegation from Hamas who...

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The Israeli Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, will attend a United States-led international counterterrorism conference in Washington this week. The conference is being hosted by U.S. Chief of Staff Joe Dunford and attended by military chiefs from 43 countries including Australia, Jordan and Egypt, as well as countries with...

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United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said Iranian-backed militias that are fighting alongside the Iraqi army should “go home” in an attempt to curb the Islamic Republic’s growing influence in Iraq, CNN reported Monday. “Those militias need to go home,” Tillerson stated during a press conference with Saudi Arabia’s...

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Three gold medals, two silver and three bronze medals were brought home to Israel by young Paralympic hopefuls on Israel’s first team to compete in the European Para Youth Games held in Liguria, Italy, October 9-15. Some 600 teenage athletes from 24 European countries participated in the Paralympic-style competitions in 11 sports:...

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The praise offered by both Israel and Saudi Arabia to President Donald Trump for his speech on October 13 outlining a new United States policy towards Iran, Agence France-Presse reported Friday, is the latest outward sign that “shared concerns over Iran are indeed nudging” Israel and much of the Arab world closer together....

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