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The Iranian military deployed reinforcements along the Iran’s border with Iraq during the past 24 hours, the Al-Arabi al-Jadid pan-Arab news site reported (Arabic link). Forces were concentrated in several locations and dug new outposts. The Iranian deployment stems from growing activity of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...

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Global Affairs

Citing “the manifest willingness of the Iranians to adopt their own pressure tactics,” the editors of The Washington Post today endorsed the proposed Senate bill authored by Senators Mark Kirk (R – Ill.) and Robert Menendez (D – N.J.), which would increase pressure on Iran if no nuclear deal is concluded by...

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The presence of a convoy carrying senior Hezbollah operatives and Iranian military personnel in Syria near the border with Israel suggests that they were “planning an operation against Israel on a high level,” Major- General (Res.) Eyal Ben-Reuven said in a conference call with reporters Monday. On Sunday an Israeli air...

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Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Wednesday of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA building, was found dead in his apartment yesterday – hours before he was due to present his findings to a closed-door session of Congress....

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Global Affairs

One of the twelve terrorists killed in yesterday’s air strike on a Hezbollah convoy in Syria was identified by Iran as a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The Times of Israel reported today, citing a source who was quoted by Agence France-Presse. “The Israeli strike killed six...

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Global Affairs

The Arab media is giving intense coverage to Sunday’s attack just inside the Syria-Israel border, which was attributed to Israel. Jihad Mughniyeh, a Hezbollah commander and son of notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, was killed along with at least nine others in an airstrike Sunday against a convoy in the Syrian section...

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Jihad Mughniyeh, a Hezbollah commander and son of notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, was killed along with at least nine others today in Israeli airstrikes against a convoy in the Syrian section of the Golan Heights. The Daily Star of Lebanon reports: An Israeli helicopter strike on Syria’s Golan Heights Sunday killed...

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Diplomacy

During a press conference Friday, President Obama vowed to veto the conditional sanctions put forward by the renewed Kirk-Menendez bill, a law that would place increased sanctions on Iran’s economy if there is no final nuclear deal by June 30. The president declared that he is “not suggesting that we...

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Global Affairs

Heavy industries generate a lot of heat and emit a lot of CO2 to the atmosphere. An Israeli startup, NewCO2Fuels (NCF) turns these two streams of waste into profitable products and recently won an award and two major grants for its innovation. For millions of years, plant life has been...

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MidEast

In another sign of the fraying of the unity agreement between Hamas and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, Hamas officials reactivated their parliament on Wednesday, which had been suspended since the agreement. Only Hamas legislators attended the session, which took place in the terrorist-controlled Gaza Strip. At the center of the dispute between Hamas...

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