Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Tex.) chaired a subcommittee hearing this week that highlighted testimonies from victims of Iranian and Palestinian terrorism, including their struggle to receive just compensation from the perpetrators of the attacks, The Dallas Morning News reported on Wednesday. Orde F. Kitre, an Arizona State University...

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The global financial giant Deutsche Bank was fined $258 million for violating American sanctions against Iran, Syria, and other nations, The New York Times reported Thursday. It is the latest in a string of settlements over sanctions violations as regulators take aim at banks for doing business with blacklisted countries. Still, criminal investigations...

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President Barack Obama will have a “very substantive agenda” to pursue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to Washington, which will include discussions on Israel’s security challenges and the recently signed nuclear deal with Iran, senior administration officials said Thursday. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told...

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Iran’s recent crackdowns on businessmen with ties to the United States, arrests of journalists, and continued rhetorical attacks on the United States have validated concerns raised by critics of the nuclear deal that it would increase the power of the regime’s hardliners. An article in the New York Times on Wednesday highlighting Iran’s...

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U.S. officials believe that the increasing number of hacking attacks carried out this past month by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) against American government personnel may be linked to the arrests of American-Iranian citizens by the regime, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,...

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Those who hoped that the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 nations and Iran would moderate Tehran and lead to rapprochement with the West have recently been “jolted with a series of increasingly rude awakenings,” including a rise in anti-American activity and a crackdown on rights, The New York Times reported...

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A Lebanese-born IT expert with U.S. permanent resident status has been detained in Iran and is being held as a spy despite being invited to the country by Iran’s vice president, according to Iranian news sources. Nizar Zakka, whose LinkedIn page indicates that he lives in Washington, D.C., was invited to Tehran by...

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The United States stopped the transfer of billions of dollars to Iraq this past summer out of fears that the money was making its way to Iran and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Tuesday. The Journal explained that since the...

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The recent arrest of an Iranian-American businessman in Tehran suggests that increased economic engagement with the Islamic Republic, made possible by the easing of international sanctions, poses significant risks for foreign investors, Gerald Seib, the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, reported (Google link) on Monday. Hard-liners have...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has directed Iranian authorities to block imports of American goods, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website on Sunday quotes him as advising authorities to “be watchful about irregular imports after lifting sanctions and seriously avoid importing consumer goods from the...

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