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Iran

The Al-Akbar news agency has reported that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that the Syrian government has won the war in Syria. Speaking at a religious event, Nasrallah said that opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had failed and that now “the path of the other project has failed and...

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Diplomacy

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to several Latin American countries this week could serve as a platform to promote regional cooperation against Iran’s involvement in global terrorism and Hezbollah’s activities in the region, Emanuele Ottolenghi and Michaela Frai wrote in The Jerusalem Post. Latin America’s permissive environment for...

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Israel

Israeli Paralympic table-tennis player Karmit Dor won a gold medal in the Czech Open Championship last weekend, in which 150 athletes participated. Dor overcame Poland’s Karolina Peck in the Women’s Singles Class 10 final in a close match (4-11, 12-10, 11-5, 9-11, 13-11). Peck went into the tournament ranked third...

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Iran

Iran will not allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to visit its military sites, a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. It was the latest statement by a top Iranian official that exposed weaknesses in the nuclear deal made with Iran in 2015. In response...

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Iran

The terrorist organization Hamas is establishing a foothold in Lebanon with the support of the Iranian regime and aims to intensify strategic ties with the Tehran-led Shiite axis, Shin Bet Director Nadav Argaman warned during a cabinet briefing on Sunday. Ynet reported Monday that Hamas and Iran patched up relations...

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Europe

Police in the German city of Ulm have indicated that there is “no indication of an antisemitic background” behind repeated acts of vandalism carried out against the city’s synagogue. Citing a report in the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper, Benjamin Weinthal reported Tuesday in The Jerusalem Post, that a man with a group of...

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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Argentina on Monday on the first leg of a groundbreaking diplomatic tour that will also include Colombia and Mexico. Netanyahu has called the visit, the first to Latin America by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister, “historic.” He is travelling with a large business delegation...

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Israel

Israeli humanitarian-aid groups are already on their way to Florida after Hurricane Irma made landfall this Sunday and threatened the state with tornadoes, catastrophic storm surges, and strong winds and flooding. Other Israeli aid teams are making their way to Mexico, which was hit by a deadly earthquake on Thursday night,...

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MidEast

If the Taylor Force Act is passed it would “stop incentives to terror,” a friend of the army veteran who was killed in Jaffa by a Palestinian terrorist in March of last year was quoted as saying in an op-ed written by Bradley Martin, published Tuesday in The Hill. If passed,...

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Iran

Senior officials in the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office believe that Iran has aided North Korea in the latter’s development of nuclear bombs that can be mounted onto ballistic missile The Sunday Telegraph reported. It is not yet clear what kind of device was detonated in the latest North Korean nuclear test,...

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