The role of Iranian agents in perpetrating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and then covering up the investigation, must be fully probed now that the new Argentine government has scrapped plans for a joint “truth commission” with Iran, Matthew Levitt, a leading expert on...

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JNS.org – Next month marks the first anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who spent a decade investigating the 1994 Iranian-backed bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. In that massacre, 85 people were murdered and hundreds more injured. Nisman’s lifeless body, readers...

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Iran’s violations of human rights, support for terrorist proxies, and use of anti-American and anti-Semitic propaganda have escalated in the wake of the nuclear deal, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League‘s national director, wrote Wednesday in the San Diego Jewish World. Greenblatt, who previously served as a special assistant to President...

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Clashes in recent weeks between Nigerian government security forces and the Iran-aligned Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) show the “challenge Iran and its proxy groups pose, even in places far from the Middle East’s violence sectarian fault line.” Armin Rosen of Business Insider reported Tuesday. The clashes apparently began after members of...

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A group of congressional leaders, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – Calif.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R – Calif.), and the heads of two key committees, wrote a letter on Wednesday to Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson expressing...

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The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security is the latest in a growing number of Congressional leaders to criticize the Obama administration for saying that it would circumvent newly-passed visa laws to address Iranian concerns and threats. Secretary of State John Kerry wrote a letter last week to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif,...

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Twenty members of the House of Representatives, including key committee chairs, have written a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry blasting the Obama administration’s intention to bypass visa waiver restrictions that were overwhelmingly approved by Congress last week. As the Tower reported yesterday, Kerry had indicated to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that...

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The continued captivity of Robert Levinson nearly nine years after he was detained in Iran underscores the dangers foreigners face while visiting the Islamic Republic, Daniel Levinson, his son, wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Washington Post. Citing his father’s case, Levinson warned that in the wake of...

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The Obama administration’s lack of response to continued Iranian human rights abuses and violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions in the wake of the nuclear deal has emboldened Tehran’s illicit behavior, The Washington Post charged Monday in a staff editorial. While Iran rushed to fulfill those conditions of the nuclear agreement...

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Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a New York dam in 2013, raising concerns about America’s vulnerability to cyber-attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Sunday. The Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye—located about 20 miles from New York City—is used to control flooding. The breach reportedly occurred...

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