Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged continued support for the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah during a meeting with the Iranian Students’ Islamic Association, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. “Hezbollah and its faithful youth are shining like the sun and are a source of honor for the Muslim world,”...
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The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a 2012 law that allows American victims of terrorism to collect damages from $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. The 6 – 2 decision is a legal victory for 1,300 people who were seeking the funds from Iran’s central bank, also...
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Iranians “to a large extent have themselves to blame” for their economic difficulties because of their country’s corrupt financial system and support for terrorism, The New York Times editorial board wrote on Monday. While Iran has largely complied with the nuclear-related aspects of the deal it reached with global powers last year, leading...
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The head of Iran’s elite Quds Force visited Russia on Thursday in defiance of the international travel ban imposed on him. This is the third time that Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani violated the ban, having visited Moscow in July and September of last year as well. He reportedly arrived on a private...
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The Israeli military has uncovered a tunnel built by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas that breaches into Israeli territory, Haaretz reported on Monday. It is the first such tunnel discovered inside Israel since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, when the Israel Defense Forces destroyed over 30 Hamas tunnels, 14 of which extended into Israel. The tunnel was...
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The governor of Iran’s central bank warned that if the United States doesn’t facilitate Iran’s reintegration into the international financial system, the nuclear deal will “[break] up under its own terms,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Valiollah Seif made his remarks in a 90-minute presentation in Washington, which this week...
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JNS.org – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district judge for the District of Columbia, Lamberth is no stranger to the Iranian-backed terrorism that cost Alberto Nisman his life as he investigated Tehran’s...
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A summit of over 50 Muslim countries criticized Iran on Friday for supporting terrorism and interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbors. The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which concluded its meeting in Istanbul on Friday, stated as part of its final communique that it “deplored Iran’s interference in the internal affairs of...
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ignored a request to grant a trial to an Iranian opposition leader and reformer who has been held under house arrest since the contested 2009 presidential elections, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Rouhani, who assumed office in 2013, has been called a reformer and previously...
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By failing to take a stand against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian leaders have “lost the Arab depth, their credibility and their narrative,” Hanin Ghaddar, the editor of the Lebanese news site NOW, wrote in a commentary Thursday. Ghaddar observed that Assad and Hezbollah, both of which are backed...
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