Israel’s enemies – led by Hezbollah and Hamas – will possess precision guided missiles within five years, according to the country’s former prime minister, Ehud Barak. “We will continue to see many more missiles, a lot more accuracy, and within five years the missile will reach a maximum level of...

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Reuters reported on Wednesday that Iran will exceed the amount of oil it is permitted to export under the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) for the fifth month in a row, a development set to deepen concerns that the West is losing control of the sanctions relief granted to the Islamic republic...

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The Arab League conference opened in Kuwait with rifts among its members expected to be a major focus of the annual meeting. Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmi, alluded to these divisions when he acknowledged that he would not meet with his Qatari counterpart due to the “deep issues” dividing the...

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A speech last Friday by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – in which the Shiite cleric questioned the existence of the Holocaust and committed to never recognizing the Jewish state – continued to draw commentary and analysis over the weekend and into Monday, with Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Suzanne...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday described the Holocaust as “uncertain” and blasted Israel’s long-standing demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people in the context of any comprehensive peace agreement, the latest in a string of statements from the top Iranian figure that align uneasily...

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Analysts continued late last week to gauge the degree to which nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 global powers might be affected by the crisis in Crimea, with Washington-based energy expert Nicholas Cunningham rounding up analysis that broadly converged on the conclusion that “Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the retaliatory steps...

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Iran reacted angrily on Sunday to a Canadian court ruling ordering the seizure of millions of dollars of Iranian property and bank assets. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said the ruling had “no legal value,” with the Iranian news agency Tasnim explaining A court in Canada’s Ontario has recently...

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Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam condemned the latest armed clashes to erupt on the streets of Beirut as increasing numbers of factions and individuals get their hands on weapons, threatening the stability of country and trying to drag Israel into the regional conflict. There is little or no central security...

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Veteran Israeli national security correspondent Yaakov Lappin this week conveyed what he described as “recent Israeli intelligence assessments” concluding that Hamas is steadily moving to reinvigorate its strained relationship with Iran, amid broader signals that the Palestinian terror group is desperate to halt what has become its worst economic crisis in roughly a decade....

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Iran’s top leaders and diplomats had spent the weeks leading up to recent Vienna talks underlining one red line after another, on issues ranging from the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment program, its plutonium-producing Arak complex, its centrifuge research push, and its development of ballistic missiles. Analysts who hoped that the...

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