After 9/11 the Iranian regime scaled back its global terror operations and networks. Those operations and networks, according to the recently published State Department annual report on terrorism, have been restored: “Iran and Hezbollah’s terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s, with attacks plotted in Southeast Asia,...

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Nigerian authorities have broken up what is believed to be a Hezbollah terror cell that was operating in the country.Three Lebanese nationals were arrested and allegedly confessed to being members of the Iran-backed terror group, and a fourth operative is thought to have escaped the country. Authorities also seized a Hezbollah-linked...

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Speaking to Sen. Robert Menendez during Menendez’s visit to Israel earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the Foreign Relations Committee chair for helping to secure last week’s unanimous Senate vote calling for the U.S. to support Israel if Israel needs to act in self-defense against the Iranian...

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A 500-page indictment released yesterday by an Argentinean prosecutor details a vast effort by Iran to infiltrate South America. Prosecutor Alberto Nisman outlined espionage bases created by Tehran in more than half a dozen countries, and described the operations of the former Iranian cultural attache in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani,...

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Iran may have successfully destroyed evidence of nuclear-related work conducted at its Parchin facility. Officials from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog presented satellite imagery to Western officials by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog yesterday. Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made the comment during a closed-door...

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Canadian officials on Wednesday announced that Canada would cease all trade with Iran. At issue are a range of Iranian policies and atrocities, ranging from human rights abuses to Iran’s continued violation of U.N. resolutions demanding that it reduce the opacity around its atomic program: “The absence of progress …...

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The regime is in the midst of an offensive against opposition forces and has been making steady gains in seizing rebel positions. Fighting has been raging around the strategically critical city of Qusayr, and Free Syrian Army chief Salim Idris fears that an atrocity is looming: Gen Idriss made an...

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Hezbollah appears to be shrugging off a 24-hour ultimatum issued yesterday by Free Syrian Army chief Salim Idris instructing the Iran-backed terror group to withdraw from Syria, and is instead pouring extra fighters from Lebanon into the battle raging in the Syrian city of Qusayr: Government fighter jets early Wednesday...

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An open letter signed last week by 72 congressmen is calling on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to demand that Iran be removed from serving as the chair of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. The bipartisan letter – coauthored by Peter Roskam (R-IL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Mike Kelly (R-PA),...

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Recent weeks have seen foreign policy analysis to the effect that further pressure on Iran ought not be imposed, because the regime may soften its stance in nuclear negotiations after the upcoming June elections. The eight hardline presidential candidates allowed to run in the election – some 670 other candidates...

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