Secretary of State John Kerry wrote a letter to his Iranian counterpart on Saturday to assure him that in order to avoid Iranian claims that the U.S is violating the nuclear deal, the White House will largely ignore recent legislation tightening visa requirements, sparking concerns that the Obama Administration is undermining Congressional authority to...

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Iranian cyber-attackers have been targeting the U.S. electrical grid’s networks and stealing highly sensitive data, an Associated Press investigation revealed on Monday. Brian Wallace, a researcher at the cyber-security firm Cylance, discovered that critical files from Calpine Coroporation, which operates 82 power plants in 18 states and Canada, were stolen in a breach that began around August 2013 and may...

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Samir Kuntar, the notorious Hezbollah terrorist who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday night, was preparing forces in the Syrian Golan Heights to orchestrate attacks against Israel before his death, former Israeli national security advisor Gen. Yaacov Amidror said during a press call hosted by The Israel Project on Sunday. While Amidror did...

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JNS.org – The most recent Republican presidential debate was a breath of fresh air on the terrorism challenge that is front and center in American politics right now. To begin with, it was heartening to see Jeb Bush, whose quest to secure the nomination is all but over, remind Americans...

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Former Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman knew that Iran was responsible for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires even as he negotiated with the regime in Tehran, secretly-recorded telephone conversations released on Friday reveal. The previously unknown recordings of conversations between Timerman and leaders of...

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Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar and eight other terrorists were killed in a targeted air strike in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana Saturday night. Kuntar spent 29 years in prison for the brutal murder of an Israeli man and his four-year-old daughter in 1979. “At 10:15 p.m. on Saturday December 19,...

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Israeli security officials have confirmed that Iran has withdrawn most of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces from Syria, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The withdrawal is apparently a reaction to the heavy losses the militia has sustained in recent weeks. A senior IRGC commander and 14 lower-ranking personnel were buried on just...

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Tehran’s city hall is offering a $50,000 prize for the best cartoon mocking the Holocaust, as part of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial to be held next June. “We do not mean to approve or deny the Holocaust, however, the main question is that why is there no permission to talk about the...

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A bill that seeks to impose mandatory sanctions on banks that knowingly conduct business with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 425 – 0 on Wednesday, The Hill reported. The proposed legislation is now heading to the White House, where President Barack...

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The recent vote to close the International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s illicit nuclear work prompted Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Islamic Republic’s chief nuclear negotiator and foreign minister, to boast that the “fabricated problem” of Iran’s military nuclear program had come to an end. “Despite its pitfalls,” Zarif said, “the...

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