Israel will open an official mission at NATO’s Brussels headquarters, the alliance announced Wednesday, reflecting Israel’s strong ties with American and European military partners, its growing rapprochement with Turkey, and growing regional and global concern about violence caused by Iran and ISIS. While Israel is not formally a member of NATO, the United...

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The United States agreed last month to buy 32 tons of excess “heavy water,” a byproduct of nuclear enrichment, from Iran, which had produced more heavy water than the agreed-upon limits of the nuclear deal it signed with global powers last year. But the fact that Iran kept enriching after it reached its heavy water...

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In a series of rebuffs to the United States’ outreach, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Sunday that America is Iran’s “main enemy,” and went on to mock President Barack Obama’s hopeful Nowruz holiday message from earlier this year. Khamenei asserted in a meeting with leaders of the terrorist...

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Iran’s parliament passed a law Tuesday to provide citizenship for families of foreigners who died fighting for Iran, state media reported Monday. The bill grants Iranian citizenship to “wives, children, and parents of foreign fighters who were killed on a mission for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988 and afterwards.” Some...

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum challenged Iranian Foreign Minister’s Mohammad Javad Zarif’s claim that his government has nothing to do with a Holocaust cartoon contest scheduled to take place in Tehran later this month. Zarif asserted that the contest was neither “controlled” nor “endorsed” by the Iranian government in an interview with The New Yorker last week....

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week allowing victims of Iranian terror to collect $2 billion in frozen assets was “hostile and illegal, ” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Rouhani described the decision as an example of American hostility to Iran, saying that “these assets all belong to Iran...

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The United States signed an agreement on Friday in Vienna to buy 32 tons of Iran’s heavy water for $8.6 million in order to prevent Tehran from violating the nuclear deal. For the first few years after signing the deal, which was reached in July, Iran is not allowed to...

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Iran has sentenced four journalists to jail on charges of subverting national security, their lawyers told reporters on Tuesday. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announced last November that they had arrested “several members of an infiltration network linked to hostile Western governments.” The suspects “were working in the country’s media...

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Secretary of State John Kerry failed to address growing bipartisan concerns that the Obama administration will grant Iran access to dollars as part of last year’s nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported Friday. “The United States is not standing in the way and will not stand in the way of...

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The deputy chief of staff of the Israeli military warned that Hezbollah poses an “unprecedented” threat to Israel, and that any future war with the Iran-backed terrorist group will be “devastating,” the Associated Press reported last week. “In any future crisis, they are not going to see a small war in...

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