Shortly after the conclusion of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge this past August, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) met with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Turkey, Ynet reported today. Khaled Mashal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, met with Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani several...

• Kindle

The Syrian army, aided by Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces, has for the past several days been conducting an intensive military campaign in southern Syria. These forces are trying to regain control of areas controlled by the Syrian rebels and radical Islamist groups, some of whom are close to the border...

• Kindle

After chiding members of Congress for planning to boycott next month’s scheduled speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Congress, an editorial published Saturday in The New York Daily News urged politicians to “put global security and solidarity ahead of petty, partisan one-upmanship.” In the words of the editorial:...

• Kindle

The current proposal for the number of centrifuges Iran could keep under a final nuclear deal would not give the West enough to react in case Iran chose to develop a nuclear bomb, according to an analysis written this past Thursday by Dr. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the...

• Kindle

A report by the Geneva-based NGO Small Arms Survey reveals that Iran is one of the top suppliers of arms to the government of Sudan, Business Insider reported Thursday. Most of these weapons were likely in the possession of the regime in Khartoum at some point. As the Small Arms Survey...

• Kindle

Iran used an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to send a satellite into space earlier this month, Israeli Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz revealed in an interview yesterday. Steinitz contended that the use of an ICBM to launch the satellite was the means by which Iran could test the efficacy of its missiles. “It’s...

• Kindle

An online petition at Change.org calling for the release of Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief of The Washington Post, has collected 100,000 signatures, the Post reported Thursday. Rezaian has been detained by Iranian authorities for months without the charges against him being made public. A burgeoning online petition drive has collected...

• Kindle

As the Lebanese army intensifies its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other Islamist groups, the United States, its allies and Iran are increasing their aid to Lebanon. Earlier this week, the U.S. delivered more than $25 million of American weapons, including heavy artillery, to...

• Kindle

Satellite imagery shows that Iran has continued asphalting a site where it is believed to have carried out testing necessary for detonating a nuclear bomb, according to a report yesterday from the Institute for Science and International Security. The military facility in Parchin has long been an issue of concern...

• Kindle

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech, rather than being divisive, will address the Iranian threat which is a matter of bipartisan concern in the United States, David Hazony argued Monday in The Forward. Hazony is editor of The Tower. After asking, “[w]hat happens, however, when you actually bracket out the...

• Kindle