Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey slammed Iran yesterday as “a threat to U.S. national security,” emphasizing that the Islamic republic is “certainly preserving and building on [its] options” for creating a nuclear weapon.  “Iran is a threat to US national security in many ways, not simply...

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Two candidates in Iran’s upcoming June 14th election have dropped out of the race. The field is now down to six candidates, all of them hard-liners closely linked to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Former parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and Mohammad Reza Aref will no longer contend to replace Mahmoud...

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Speaking Sunday at a youth summer camp in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed to the crowd that Israel would be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Arab media sources summed up his speech with the headline ‘Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine.’...

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Bulgarian officials have reemphasized findings first announced in February linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed one Bulgarian and five Israeli citizens. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin met Monday with Israel’s ambassador to Bulgaria and explicitly rejected media reports suggesting that Sofia had reassessed its declaration that...

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Iran and its terrorist allies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are carrying “non-stop” cyber attacks against Israel’s central computer systems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday in his address to an international conference on cyber warfare at Tel Aviv University. Without elaborating, Netanyahu said that “vital national systems” had been targeted. Suspected...

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Arab media outlets are waging a war of words against Hezbollah. The Iran-backed terror group has committed the group to battling on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime until it defeats the largely Sunni rebels who have been seeking the regime’s overthrow. The group was instrumental in the Syrian army’s successful campaign to wrest...

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The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held its thrice-yearly session Monday. As always, the body deliberated over its infamous Item 7 – the council’s permanent agenda item on Israel and the only one devoted to a specific country. As always, a convoy of some of the world’s worst human-rights abusers...

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Iranian state media on Sunday celebrated critical advances in bringing the country’s plutonium reactor online. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was on hand as workers at the country’s Arak heavy water facility installed containers on the plant’s reactor: Workers installed two containers on the reactor at the Arak heavy water facility in...

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It’s a week before the presidential elections and the political atmosphere in Iran is heating up. For the first time in years demonstrators this week dared gathering in public in a large protest against the regime. Tuesday they took advantage of the funeral of an admired, dissident, senior cleric in the...

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Gulf states are calling on Iran to provide reassurances regarding the integrity of its Bushehr nuclear reactor. The nuclear plant may have been damaged in April after multiple earthquakes, including one with a 7.7 magnitude, struck the region. The facility’s location has long been a source of concern: Iran built it in...

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