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Several analysts have recently written that it would be a strategic error for the United States to allow Iran to play a greater role in the region, given its destabilizing nature and hegemonic ambitions. Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies writes that the administration is “grossly mistaken”...

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Diplomacy

A phased nuclear deal that will allow Iran “to slowly ramp up activities that could be used to make weapons” is currently taking shape between the P5+1 nations and Iran, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. The U.S. initially sought restrictions lasting for up to 20 years; Iran had pushed for...

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Engaged in an escalating cyber-war with Iran, the United States has enlisted the help of allies, notably Britain and Israel, to counter Tehran’s cyber-attacks, The New York Times reported today. Citing a paper prepared for then-director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, in 2013, the Times reported: It detailed how the...

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Human Rights

A student who had applied to join UCLA Undergraduate Students Association’s judicial board was accepted to the post only after objections were raised on account of her Jewish identity, The College Fix reported Thursday. At the Feb. 10 hearing, several members did not want to confirm Rachel Beyda to the association’s...

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Iran

Iran has been coordinating with al-Qaeda to target American interests in the Gulf region since 2007, the English version of the Arabic daily A Sharq al-Awsat reported today. Speaking under condition of anonymity, the sources said coordination between Iran and the global terrorist organization was mainly taking place through Saudi citizen...

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The editorial page editor of the Washington Post has questioned how the United States can accept President Barack Obama’s guarantees about a nuclear deal with Iran in a column published today. Fred Hiatt wrote that three factors—”the suspicious, poisonous partisanship of the moment here, with Israeli politics mixed in; worries that he...

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Diplomacy

Security cooperation between Sunni Arab nations and Israel “is now moving into the arena of public discourse in the Arab world,” according to Marc Sievers, a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who wrote an analysis last Wednesday on a column written by prominent Saudi journalist Abdulrahman al-Rashed....

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America’s Arab allies are increasingly concerned about the emerging nuclear deal that the West has reportedly prepared with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Friday. The direction of U.S. diplomacy with Tehran has added fuel to fears in some Arab states of a nuclear-arms race in the region,...

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Israel

An yeshiva student was stabbed and moderately injured before his assailant was apprehended by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and his bodyguards, Ha’aretz reported today. A preliminary investigation revealed that the suspected assailant is an 18-year-old illegal Palestinian resident. According to a paramedic who was at the scene, the man was stabbed...

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Israel

No matter where you live or what language you speak, at some point you will likely need a legal, medical, technical, business or personal document translated into one of the world’s thousands of written languages. Or maybe you’ll want to develop a website, app or book for people in several different countries....

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