Echoing comments he made last week to the effect that Israel can successfully degrade Iran’s atomic program, former head of Israeli Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin told a Jerusalem Post conference this weekend that Israel could handle the aftermath of such a strike. Yadlin’s comments came after a similar evaluation provided...

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A Pentagon report released last Thursday indicates that Iran could have ballistic missiles capable of hitting the U.S. as early as 2015. The analysis – driven by intelligence regarding North Korean, Chinese, and Russian assistance to the Islamic republic – constitutes a reassesment of previous, more skeptical U.S. assessments: A...

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The Syrian army has begun transfering portions of the country’s chemical weapons arsenal to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, according to an Israeli opposition figure. If confirmed – and Israeli defense officials quoted by the Associated Press and by Israeli sources considered the assessment premature – the development would mark...

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An Iranian man arrested in connection with last year’s botched attack on Israeli diplomats in Thailand is telling officials that – rather than being involved in a terror plot – he was trying to dispose of the two homemade bombs in his possession when they exploded. Saeid Moradi testified along with...

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Human rights groups are blasting Iran for a wave of executions that this week saw four prisoners hanged in the western city of Kermanshah, two of them women. Kermanshah has become a central location for the Iranian regime’s public and prison executions. Iran has one of the world’s worst records...

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Israeli officials have confirmed that a drone that tried to penetrate Israeli air space today was launched from Lebanon, even as the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah rushes to deny responsibility. Hezbollah has in the past boasted about launching drones against Israel. Lebanese leaders responded by blasting the group for risking...

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Bahrain is calling on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to boost its response to Iranian activity in the region. Shaikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa blasted Tehran for links to a series of recent terror plots in the region, including an incident in which an allegedly Iran-backed terror cell was...

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News has been released that the Israeli Air Force has downed a drone, likely piloted by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, over the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa today. Hezbollah has previously attempted to penetrate Israeli airspace with drones. A video on the previous attempt is embedded below. Iran recently held...

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A little-seen video uploaded to YouTube yesterday claims to depict the funeral of an elite Hezbollah figure killed fighting in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The video comes amid deepening Iran-Hezbollah coordination on Syria. Hezbollah has declared that its participation in the conflict is a national, moral...

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Iranian media is conveying boasts from the Iranian regime over a total of eight planned military exercises set to take place this year. Included in the count is a “massive drill” to be held in June: On the sidelines of the meeting with foreign military attaches held on the occasion...

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