Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes to Jerusalem on Tuesday, calling him a close friend who defended Israel “in difficult circumstances.” Cartes, the first Paraguayan leader to visit Israel, regretted that the trip did not take place earlier as the two countries were “so close” and “friendly,” but indicated that it...

Iran is threatening to ban all iPhones unless Apple officially registers a store in the country, The Japan Times reported on Tuesday, citing Iranian media. Under the guise of an anti-smuggling effort, Iran would require the tech giant and other smartphone manufacturers to register in a national telecommunications user database. The effort...

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist was killed on Monday after a tunnel collapsed under Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip’s second-most populous city. Two other Islamic Jihad operatives were wounded, with two more unaccounted for. The terrorist organization identified the deceased operative as 28-year-old Salah Mohammed al-Astal. “One of our fighters in the Khan Younis Brigade rose to...

Iran’s foreign minister called his country’s ability to restore its uranium enrichment program after the tenth year of the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last year a “matter of pride,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s comments came in response to a report published Monday by the AP about a secret add-on to...

The family of a British-Iranian woman who was arrested in Tehran earlier this year was told to pressure the British government “to reach an agreement” in order to close her case before trial, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was visiting family in Iran with her toddler, was detained at Tehran’s airport in...

Fourteen Democratic senators introduced legislation last week calling for an extension of existing sanctions on Iran, which are set to expire at the end of this year. Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) are leading the push for renewing the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996,...

Iran is broadening its search for aircraft as its proposed deals with Airbus and Boeing continue to face significant obstacles, Reuters reported on Sunday. “Iran is planning to buy some 50 more airplanes of various types soon,” an Iranian official told the news agency. Iranian executives said they attended the U.K.’s Farnborough International Airshow last week and...

Two suspects linked to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah will be tried in absentia for a deadly July 2012 suicide bombing that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, prosecutors revealed on Friday. Meliad Farah and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, both natives of Lebanon, will be tried on charges of terrorism over the...

Iranian hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are “gaining authority” in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal, Reuters reported on Monday. “Khamenei’s allies control the bulk of financial resources as well as the judiciary, the security forces, public broadcasters and the Guardian Council which vets laws and...

An unmanned aerial vehicle crossed into Israeli airspace from Syria on Sunday afternoon, prompting the IDF to fire anti-aircraft missiles at the target before it returned to Syrian airspace. Israel fired two Patriot interceptors and an air-to-air missile at the drone, and scrambled fighter jets in an attempt to down it. “The aircraft was detected prior to entering...