The United States Senate has voted 94-0 Friday to impose new sanctions on Iran, building on restrictions targeting the country’s oil and financial industries. The amendment, which is attached to the Senate’s defense authorization bill, would formally designate Iran’s energy, port, shipping, and ship-building sectors for facilitating Iranian proliferation, and...

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that he plans to visit Gaza next week. The move comes as foreign policy analysts and journalists are pointing to the negative effect that Erdogan’s “bombast” toward Israel has had on Ankara’s prestige and influence. Erdogan’s criticism of Israel’s Operation Pillar of...

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News is slowly leaking out of Iran regarding the brutal anti-Semitic murder and mutilation of a Jewish woman in the Iranian city of Isfhahan. The Times of Israel reports that 57 year old Tuba N. was murdered by Muslim neighbors who, as part of a multi-year campaign to harass her...

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Residents in the Gaza Strip have posted large billboards highlighting close ties between Iran and that territory’s ruling Hamas terror group. The billboards thank Tehran for assisting Palestinian terror groups in battling Israelis, and the Associate Press​ commented that the posters’ “prominent location, at busy intersections and next to a...

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The Associated Press has obtained and published a computer-generated graph allegedly produced by Iranian nuclear scientists indicating that Iran has conducted computer simulations designed to produce a nuclear weapon. The bell-shaped curve, which charts the explosion of a nuclear weapon detonating with three time the force of the atomic bomb...

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Iran is “finding ways to resupply Hamas,” moving weapons through Sudan and Egypt and then into the Gaza Strip, according to U.S. officials. Jerusalem launched Operation Pillar of Defense after a month-long escalation in the amount and sophistication of weapons used by Hamas against Israelis, and Israeli forces proceeded to...

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened on Sunday to bombard Israeli civilians with “tens of thousands of rockets.” This explicit threat of mass war crimes by the Iran-backed terror organization, which militarily controls southern Lebanon and dominates the country’s political system, is unlikely to be met with robust international condemnation, nor...

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Hamas scrambled at the end of last week and into the weekend to maintain the ceasefire which ended hostilities around Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense. The Iran-backed group called on other Palestinian terror groups to maintain the ceasefire, and even dispatched its own officers to pull Palestinians away from the...

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Syria: Israel conducted an air defense drill simulating a possible attack by Syrian and Iranian long-range missiles on Monday, part of a joint military drill with the United States done with an eye on terror organizations and border security threats. The drill comes as an array of destabilizing factors –...

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Lebanon/Hezbollah: Pressure is mounting within the European Union to designate Hezbollah a terrorist group. The Iranian proxy, which militarily controls southern Lebanon and politically dominates the country, has been linked to terror operations in the Middle East and central Asia, in North America, in South America, in Africa, and in...

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