Following the gains of the Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, an official in the Iranian Army says that Iran’s borders reach today the capital of Yemen, Sanaa. Brigadier General Baqir Zada said in a press conference (Arabic link): “Iran’s Borders don’t reach only the Shalamja region – the border area...
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In a speech Sunday night, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, praised the U.S.-Israel relationship and explained the importance of the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner to Israel’s Prime Minister of Israel to speak before a joint session of Congress on March 3. Placing a heavy emphasis on...
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The late Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani of involvement in planning the July 1994 terror attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, journalist Andres Oppenheimer of The Miami Herald reported Wednesday On July 1, 2013, Nisman emailed me part of Mesbahi’s testimony. Quoting from his...
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In a stinging public rebuke, a trio of leading foreign policy officials for the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations — including two who served as key Obama White House officials overseeing U.S. policy on Iran — have leveled an unusually blunt assessment of recent U.S. foreign policy setbacks related to the Islamic Republic, charging that...
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The government of Argentina announced today that “rogue” intelligence agents are suspected in the death of state prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who before his death had formally accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of sabotaging an investigation into Iran’s role in a deadly terror attack. Reuters reports: Argentina suspects rogue agents from its own...
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Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his government resigned Thursday in the face of attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The Washington Post reports: Yemen’s Western-backed president and his cabinet resigned Thursday amid deepening turmoil that left Shiite rebels in effective control and threw into question this nation’s continued participation...
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A pragmatic Sunni alliance in the Middle East is getting stronger as ties between two regional powers—Egypt and Saudi Arabia—have grown even stronger in recent weeks. The possible rapprochement of Qatar to this alliance represents a potentially significant boost to efforts to prevent Iran from achieving hegemony in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Egypt share...
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The airstrike on January 18 that killed Hezbollah and Iranian soldiers, allegedly undertaken by the IDF, has been surprisingly welcomed with cheers by many in the Middle East. The strike destroyed a convoy carrying senior Hezbollah commanders and an Iranian military team headed by a general in the Iranian Revolutionary...
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The sense of shock arising from the mysterious death of State Prosecutor Alberto Nisman on Sunday has reverberated across Argentina and the entire world. His death—the latest tragic development in a case that has yet to secure a single conviction, more than twenty years after the AMIA Jewish community center...
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As doubts continue to grow about the administration’s claims made of progress in the nuclear negotiations, including those made by President Barack Obama in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, senators from both parties are seeking to introduce legislation to restore the West’s leverage in those negotiations. In his State...
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