Israel passed a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad through an intermediary that it would take military action in Syria if Iran is allowed to establish a permanent military presence in Syria. Ehud Yaari, Middle East analyst for Hadashot News (formerly Channel 2), reported the story and revealed Iranian plans...

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reaffirmed a fatwa declaring that women are forbidden to ride bicycles in public and in the presence of strangers that are not part of their immediate family, Radio Farda reported on Monday. Khamenei’s so-called fatwa office reported in August 2016 that “from the...

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If the European Union insists on negotiating limits on Iran’s missile development program, Iran “may drop this limitation to the range” of the missiles, which Tehran claims are defensive, a top Iranian general told the semi-official Fars News Agency on Sunday. Hossein Salami, the lieutenant commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...

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Ahead of decisions of importance to Tehran by United States and U.K. governments, the Iranian state television showed footage of two foreign nationals who have been jailed by the regime, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Monday. The spouses of Xiyue Wang, an American graduate student, and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen who works for...

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Iran-backed Shia militia forces have been accused by a parliamentarian of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the autonomous region in northern Iraq of engaging in “flagrant injustice” toward the Christian minority, Ben Cohen reported in The Algemeiner on Monday. Wahida Yaqo Hormuz, a Christian representative in the Kurdish parliament,...

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In the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision last month not to certify the nuclear deal with Iran, on grounds that the sanctions relief was not “appropriate and proportionate” to Iran’s behavior, the Justice Department is poised to announce charges against several Iranian suspects in connection with HBO hack this...

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The Arab League held an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday and issued a resolution that heavily criticized Iran and Hezbollah. Speaking at the meeting Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said his country “will not stand by and will not hesitate to defend its security” in the face of...

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Confronting Iran’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East needs to be a “bipartisan priority,” the Democratic congressman who initiated a letter signed by 42 of his colleagues to United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, protesting Iranian interference in Syria, said on Wednesday. “A permanent Iranian presence in Syria is...

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In a ground-breaking interview with a Saudi newspaper, the IDF’s chief-of-staff Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said that both Israel and Saudi Arabia were in agreement that Iran was the greatest threat to the Middle East and that the Islamic Republic was seeking control the region by creating two Shiite crescents, Haaretz reported...

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During a tour of Israel’s northern border on Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Israel will not allow Syria “to be turned into a front-line position” for Iranian militias against Israel. Liberman was accompanied by senior officers from the IDF General Staff and met senior commanders and soldiers. Liberman...

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