Hezbollah is attempting to move advanced weapons into civilian areas in Lebanon in preparation for another conflict with Israel. The Iran-backed terror group has an extensive, video-documented history of exploiting Lebanese civilians, and during its 2006 war with Israel successfully created incidents in which human shields were endangered and killed....

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Last week Iran’s Guardian Council – which is charged with vetting candidates who want to run for office, and from which there is no appeal – approved just 8 of some 680 candidates who applied to run in Iran’s June 14th election. Diplomats speaking to AFP were blunt about how...

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Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut was struck by two missiles on Sunday in the aftermath of a fiery speech by Hassan Nasrallah. The Hezbollah chief committed the Iran-backed terror group to bringing victory to the embattled Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. The New Yorker described Nasrallah’s speech as the formal declaration...

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Diplomats are beginning to react to a confidential IAEA report leaked this week that heightened concerns that Iran was using negotiations to stall for time and lock-in critical nuclear infrastructure. Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, of course dismissed the report’s significance. State Department Acting Deputy Spokesperson Patrick...

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The U.S. Senate voted 99-0 yesterday on S.Res. 65, which emphasizes the global threat posed by a nuclear Iran, calls for tightening sanctions on Iran, and reaffirms U.S. support for Israel if the Jewish state takes action to defend itself against the Islamic republic. The text is here and takes...

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Israeli Air Force Chief Amir Eshel warned today that Syria will soon receive advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Russia. The warning comes after one that Israeli officials reportedly conveyed privately to their American counterparts two weeks ago. Israeli media had already disclosed that Syrian soldiers had completed two months of training on...

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Iran’s Guardian Council has approved a total of eight candidates, out of some 680 applicants, to run in the country’s June 14th presidential election to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Tower had reported on regime moves – made over the last four years, and intensifying in recent month – to break the...

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A report released today by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog reveals that that Iran is locking in critical infrastructure necessary to quickly produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The report discloses that Iran has sped up the installation of, among other things, advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its Natanz plant. The technology allows Tehran to...

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Saudi officials have detained another 10 suspects in an Iran-linked spy investigation that Riyhad announced last March. Authorities had arrested 18 people. They later released one. That makes 27 total: “Initial investigation carried out by the authorities led to the detention of 10 others for involvement in spying activities,” state television news channel al-Ekhbariya...

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The report in yesterday’s Sunday Times that Syria had advanced missiles trained on Tel Aviv could create the impression that another Israeli-Syrian war is in the offing. Syria’s heightened level of alert is no surprise. It’s standard practice for the Assad regime to warn that a single bullet fired at...

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