Passivity in the face of ongoing Iranian provocations is hurting American credibility in the Middle East, particularly with the Gulf states, a former U.S. State Department official wrote in CNN on Friday. Aaron David Miller, now the vice president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, argued that the Obama administration’s reluctance to push back against Iranian...

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The editors of The Washington Post called on the Obama administration to take action against Iran for ballistic missile tests it carried out since agreeing to last year’s nuclear deal on Wednesday. While crediting Iran with complying with “the principal terms” of the nuclear deal, the editors pointed out that Iran “has aggressively exploited loopholes in...

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Hezbollah is building a fortified base in Syria, the global intelligence company Stratfor reported Wednesday. The site lies near the border city of Qusayr, which Hezbollah, along with the Syrian army and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), captured from Syrian opposition forces in June 2013. “According to one source close...

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The massive leak of documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, otherwise known as the Panama Papers, has shed light on the role the company played in enabling Iranian sanctions busting. While Mossack Fonseca has admitted to no wrongdoing in helping its clients invest money in offshore tax shelters, leaked...

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Democratic and Republican senators expressed a desire to pursue tougher sanctions on Iran in response to its destabilizing and aggressive activities, as well as frustration over the Obama administration’s changing positions on Iran’s ballistic missile tests and its access to dollar transactions, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday. Several...

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An Iranian general warned the United States not to cross any “red lines” on the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. “The White House should know that defense capacities and missile power, specially at the present juncture where plots and threats are galore, is among the...

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Low-level members of Hezbollah are growing increasingly frustrated with the Iran-backed terrorist militia, with many saying that they just want to be paid so they can go home. Hanin Ghaddar, the managing editor of the Lebanese news website NOW, came to this conclusion after interviewing after interviewing a number of young men who have been...

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The United States Navy intercepted a massive Iranian arms shipment in the Arabian Sea on March 28 that was likely headed to Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Pentagon announced on Monday. This is the third time a suspected Yemen-bound weapons shipment from Iran has been seized in recent weeks. The arms,...

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The head of Iran’s armed forces said that the Islamic Republic seeks to have a “mighty presence” in Latin America in order to assert its naval power, the Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi told reporters in the port city of Bandar Abbas that Iran plans to modernize its navy in the new...

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The Obama administration’s reported plan to provide Iran with access to the U.S. dollar and American financial markets is meeting bipartisan opposition in Congress. U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are arguing that “the White House has backtracked on commitments made to Congress last summer to maintain financial pressure...

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