A new study shows massive Iranian support has improved the military capabilities of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organizations. According to Tel Aviv-based Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the massive rocket fire from Gaza in November that targeted Israeli civilian population centers was made possible by Iran’s support....

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The UK Huffington Post is criticizing Europe and America for “dangerous complacency” regarding the risk that Syria’s arsenal of chemical and biological weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists. The Syrian conflict is a three-way proxy war between Sunni-backed rebels, the Iran-backed regime in Damascus, and Kurdish groups. The...

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The European Union will “at last” designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, though the timeline is uncertain, according to U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Daniel Benjamin. Benjamin described the State Department as “cautiously optimistic” on the possibility of designation, which would constrain the Iran-backed terror group’s extensive non-profit fundraising...

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Iran is actively exporting its drone technology to Venezuela, according to the country’s Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri. The announcement, made as part of a speech by Mehdinejad-Nouri given at Iran’s Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, comes in the wake of testimony by former U.S. Assistant...

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Acting on a tip from Israel, Italian security officers seized a cache of Egypt-bound weapons, including rocket launchers, at the Port of Naples. The final destination of the weapons has not been identified, but the majority of weapons smuggled into the Gaza Strip for use by Hamas come through tunnels...

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Israel will be forced to take military action if the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempts to transfer portions of its non-conventional arsenal to Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border, according to warnings issued on Sunday by Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. Using language that echoed Israeli...

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As Israel’s January 22 election approaches so does the political intrigue that’s swirling around it. Former Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz this morning announced that he is abandoning the Labor Party, where he was #3 on the party’s election slate, for The Movement party recently founded by former Minister of...

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened on Sunday to bombard Israeli civilians with “tens of thousands of rockets.” This explicit threat of mass war crimes by the Iran-backed terror organization, which militarily controls southern Lebanon and dominates the country’s political system, is unlikely to be met with robust international condemnation, nor...

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Lebanon/Hezbollah: Pressure is mounting within the European Union to designate Hezbollah a terrorist group. The Iranian proxy, which militarily controls southern Lebanon and politically dominates the country, has been linked to terror operations in the Middle East and central Asia, in North America, in South America, in Africa, and in...

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Belgium is blocking efforts to place Hezbollah on the European Union’s terror list, despite explicit and repeated requests from U.S. counter-terrorism officials. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy that has been linked to past and ongoing terror operations on five continents – in the Middle East and central Asia, in North...

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