Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Saudi Arabia to avoid sailing in international waters next to Iranian territory while the kingdom is conducting ongoing naval exercises, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. “We declare to all the vessels present in Saudi Arabia’s stated wargames, including the Saudi navy’s vessels and others, that the IRGC Navy believes that...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blasted Iran for its “alarming rate” of executions and the lack of improvement made under the administration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a report released this week. Ban is “deeply troubled” by accounts “of executions, floggings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, unfair trials, denial of access to medical care...

A Canadian academic who was freed after spending nearly four months in an Iranian prison on murky charges told CBC News on Wednesday that her interrogators “threatened to send my dead body back to Canada.” Homa Hoodfar, a retired professor of anthropology at Concordia University who was released on September 26, told CBC...

Rockets fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen struck and badly damaged a United Arab Emirates ship traveling through a strategic Red Sea waterway on Saturday, the Long War Journal reported. U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday that the weapons used in the attack were supplied by Iran. The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait is a...

Six residents of the village of Ghajar on the Golan Heights were accused on Thursday of planning a terror attack in Israel with help from the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. Diab Kahamuz, the alleged ringleader, was caught after he apparently forgot where he hid the explosives he received from Hezbollah. The explosives were found...

A regional Spanish High Court upheld a ruling last week declaring that a municipal boycott of Israel was illegal and discriminatory, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The High Court of Spain’s northwestern Asturias region found that the Langreo City Council lacked the “competencies to decree an international boycott and to alter...

More than 8,300 needy Vietnamese citizens received humanitarian and medical aid in the remote Kon Tum province from the Israeli Embassy in Hanoi and the Family Medical Practice (FMP), a chain of clinics in Vietnam founded and headed by an Israeli physician, during a week-long mission last month. “It’s a drop in...

The recent influx of Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militias into Syria has helped tilt the fight for Aleppo in favor of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and possibly portends the emergence of the militias as “a larger, externally focused force” throughout the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The Iraqi Shiite militia al-Nujaba,...

The reigning American female chess champion has come under fire after announcing last week that she will boycott next year’s tournament, which is slated to be held in Iran, to protest the requirement that all participants wear the Islamic hair covering known as the hijab. Nazí Paikidze-Barnes, a 22-year-old originally from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, protested...

A Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned by Iran for eighteen months filed a federal lawsuit against the country on Monday, saying he was taken hostage and tortured in order to “extort” concessions from the United States. Jason Rezaian, who was arrested in July 22, 2014 and released with four other Americans...