In an editorial published Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal commented on the findings of a report recently issued by a United Nations committee regarding the illegal Iranian arms shipment found on the Klos C, a ship that Israel intercepted in March. The weapons were found hidden under bags cement. The editorial (Google search  terms)...

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As the second day of Operation Protective Edge was winding down yesterday, the biggest news was that M-302 rockets, similar to the ones smuggled by Iran to Gaza in the past, struck Zichron Yaakov, just south of Haifa. An M-302 also hit the northern city of Hadera yesterday. Hamas also reportedly aimed rockets towards...

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Reuters on Tuesday published remarks by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regarding Tehran’s nuclear program, with Khamenei insisting that Iran has an “absolute need” to build 190,000 centrifuges, ten times the number of centrifuges the Islamic republic already possesses, and far more than what has been proposed by P5+1...

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The State Department’s top war crimes official claimed on Thursday that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is guilty of  “crimes against humanity.” Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast quotes Steven Rapp, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for War Crimes and director of the Office of Global Criminal Justice. “This is...

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The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Iran’s economy is making an impressive recovery from the sanctions relief granted as part of the interim deal with the P5+1 nations last November. It begins by noting that the president of Iran’s chamber of commerce, Gholam Hossein Shafei, “greets trade missions from...

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Earlier this week The New York Times outlined how a case brought by Stephen Flatow against Iran exposed the chicanery used by major international banks to evade sanctions and do business with the Iranian regime. Flatow brought a lawsuit against Iran for its financing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which was responsible...

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The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that delegations from energy and automobile companies have been become a near-daily presence in Iran since the easing of sanctions under the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA): As talks between Iran and six major powers on limiting its nuclear program enter the...

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Reuters on Tuesday published new figures indicating that Iran has for the eighth straight month violated crude export restrictions set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), with the outlet quoting a range of experts suggesting that the Obama administration has been deliberately looking the other way as Tehran busted...

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As the P5+1 negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program head into the final few weeks before the July 20th deadline, Secretary of State John Kerry wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post Tuesday arguing that Iran’s “public optimism about the potential outcome of these negotiations has not been...

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Reports surfaced over the weekend that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) had announced it had reformed the caliphate – an Islamic state stretching across the region – headed by ISIS chief Abu Bakr al Baghdadi: In the statement—released in Arabic, English, German, French, and Russian—ISIS claimed...

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