Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday called on Palestinians to accept further Iranian assistance in targeting Israelis. Larijani made the comments in the context of a meeting with top Hamas official Emad Al-Alami, who in turn has linked Hamas’s self-described military victories over Israel to Iranian assistance. Hamas has been attempting...

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Hamas declared yesterday it will not dismantle its military wing as part of any reconciliation agreement between the Iran-backed terrorist organization and its rival, the Palestinian faction Fatah, which controls the West Bank. Unity talks are currently being held in Cairo and, should Hamas hold to the commitment, will complicate efforts...

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Experts from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog are in Iran and will again seek access to a military complex in the country where it is widely suspected that Iranian nuclear scientists conducted tests related to nuclear detonations. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast expressed opposition to providing the IAEA inspectors access to the Parchin facility,...

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Washington should enhance “constraints on supply of goods Iran needs for its nuclear and missile programs,” the American non-partisan Project on U.S. Middle East Nonproliferation Strategy said in a new report on the Iranian nuclear program. The group emphasizes that Iran’s atomic program violates international law along multiple dimensions, including putting...

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The director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency has expressed pessimism that Iran will adopt measures to increase transparency around its military facility at Parchin. The agency wants access to the site in order to investigate reports that Iran conducted activity there linked to the development of nuclear explosives. International...

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Warming ties between Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government and the Iran-backed terror group Hamas are causing analysts to express concerns over Cairo’s future role in the region. This week Egypt dispatched to Gaza its sports minister, Al-Ameri Farouk, at the head of a 70-strong delegation. Palestinian media outlets carried fulsome praise...

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U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein yesterday expressed concerns that Iran is working to destabilize the country. Feierstein’s comments echo those of Yemen’s chief of political security, Ali Al-Ahmadi, who last month accused Tehran of having “exploited Yemen’s turmoil to expand” its influence in the country’s north. Other Sana’a officials,...

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A just-announced unity deal between the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions risks permanently undermining peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas has been at odds with Fatah at least since the Iran-backed terror group violently expelled Fatah officials from...

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The U.S. Treasury has outlined a number of mechanisms that Iran is using to evade sanctions meant to induce the country to increase transparency around its atomic program, which is widely suspected of having a clandestine weapons component. The Iranians are using, according to Treasury officials, private exchange houses and...

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Australian officials announced yesterday that the country will expand its sanctions against Iran, which are targeted at encouraging Tehran to increase transparency around its atomic program. Canberra imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Iran in 2008, and Foreign Minister Bob Carr linked the new restrictions to ongoing Iranian noncompliance wth U.N. Security...

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