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Iran

Iranian lawmakers on Sunday chanted “Death to America” during a session of parliament after the deputy speaker of the house accused the United States of being “the real-world terrorists” amid escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf. “America is the real terrorist in the world by spreading chaos in countries, giving...

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Diplomacy

In extraordinary comments on Friday, a top-ranking Saudi diplomat said that “the blood conflict” between Israel and the Arab world “had lasted too long” and that the time for normalization has come. “Us Saudis and all Gulf States plus Egypt and Jordan realize that the age of going to war...

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Featured

The United States released Saturday the economic portion of its long-awaited Middle East peace plan – a 40-page document detailing a $50 billion, 10-year investment plan for the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon ahead of the U.S.-sponsored economic conference in Bahrain on June 25-26. The White House said on...

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Business

Think electric cars are all the rage? How very old-fashioned. At this week’s Paris Air Show, Israeli company Eviation Aircraft unveiled its electric plane, an emission-free, quiet mode of transportation that could greatly benefit the environment. The streamlined plane, called Alice, can seat nine passengers and is planned to cruise at a...

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Terrorism

An operative for the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah collected “detailed information” about Toronto’s Pearson airport, according to a report released by Canada’s air safety agency on Tuesday. Ali Kourani, a member of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO), which is also known as the External Security Organization and 910, served as...

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Israel

Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, accepted Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize at a ceremony in Jerusalem on Thursday, where he pledged $20 million to establish a foundation that will fight anti-Semitism and combat the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

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A senior commander in Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Friday that the country could have downed a U.S. surveillance aircraft carrying American personnel on Thursday when it destroyed a U.S. drone in international airspace. “We could have targeted a P-8 American plane” Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh,...

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Human Rights

The head of the United Nations food agency launched a blistering attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen on Monday, accusing the Iranian-aligned terrorist group of diverting critical food deliveries from the country’s starving population. At a time 20 million Yemenis are food-insecure and on the brink of famine, the executive...

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In a major provocation, Iran shot down a United States military drone while it was flying in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, as the regime in Tehran declared it was “ready for war.” General Hossein Salami, the new commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...

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Diplomacy

Israeli journalists from six media outlets have been approved by Bahrain to cover the U.S.-led economic workshop that will take place in the country on June 25-26, in what is seen as an unprecedented move by a country with no formal ties to the Jewish State. The Kingdom reportedly granted...

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