Iran has given messaging apps one year to move its storage of user data inside the country, raising concerns that Iranians using the apps could have their data accessed by the government. Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, whose members are appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a directive on Sunday warning that...

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The election last week of 89-year-old Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati to head Iran’s Assembly of Experts, which will choose the country’s next Supreme Leader to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shows that “whoever follows the increasingly frail Mr. Khamenei as Supreme Leader is unlikely to alter the regime’s core anti-Western philosophy,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote (Google link) Monday. Jannati...

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An Argentinian court will allow a recording of former Foreign Minister Hector Timerman acknowledging that Iran was behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires to be admitted as evidence in an inquiry to determine if he is guilty of treason, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported...

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More than 30 students were lashed 99 times each after they were arrested for dancing at a graduation celebration attended by members of the opposite gender in the Iranian city of Qazvin, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing Iranian media. The arrests and punishments, which took place in a 24-hour span, were part of a...

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JNS.org – A haredi Jew looks into a mirror and sees the face of Adolf Hitler gazing back at him. The walls and guard towers of Auschwitz are squeezed into a snow shaker, with flying dollar bills replacing the fake snowflakes. Another haredi Jew waves a swastika-shaped fan at an...

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Iran will be renewing financial support to the Gaza-based terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad after two years of strained relations, the Arabic-language London newspaper a-Sharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday. The move comes a month after a delegation of Islamic Jihad officials, headed by leader Ramadan Shalah, visited Iran. The delegation praised...

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Sanctions and national security experts urged the United States to reject Iran’s demands for further economic concessions and ramp up pressure on Tehran in response to its regional aggression during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday. Iranian leaders have complained of not receiving enough sanctions relief, blaming the U.S. for the continued...

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The United States has not sanctioned any Iranians for human rights abuses since last year’s nuclear deal with Iran was signed, a senior Obama administration official told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday. “There has not been a specific sanction on human rights cases since the signing” of the nuclear...

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on the Lebanese terror group to fight a war of “comprehensive resistance” against Israel in a speech on Tuesday, the 16th anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. On May 24, 2000, Israel withdrew from its security zone in southern Lebanon, bringing it into compliance with United...

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Iran’s defense minister claimed that conflicts in Iraq and Syria are the result of a “deep-seated U.S.-Zionist conspiracy” during a memorial service for Mustafa Baddredine, a Hezbollah commander who was responsible for bombing the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. “Zionists are supporting terrorists and equipping them,...

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