Russian President Vladimir Putin sees Iran as a “strategic partner” to Russia which is “not good news for Israel,” a Russian expert told Ben Cohen of The Algemeiner on Wednesday. Discussing the significance of Putin’s trip to Iran and his meetings with top Iranian officials, Anna Borshchevskaya, a fellow at the...
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Iraq’s parliament in Baghdad voted on Tuesday to criminalize flying the Israeli flag in the country, after accusing Israel and Mossad of orchestrating the Kurdish independence referendum on September 25 to establish, in the words of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a “second Israel” in the Middle East. I24news...
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The CIA has released thousands of documents and other files recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, when the terrorist leader was killed, providing “invaluable insights” into the terror group’s operations, and confirming previous reporting on its ties to Iran, Thomas Joscelyn and Bill Roggio of the Long War...
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The IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate has identified the new Hezbollah commander on the Syrian Golan Heights, Munir Ali Naim Shaiti, as defense analysts warn that Israel could be heading for a new war with Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday that Shaiti, also known as Haj Hasham, mainly operates out of...
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A war between Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah is inevitable and will likely be “more violent and destructive” than previous conflicts, according to a report released on Wednesday by former senior defense officials, known collectively as the High Level Military Group (HLMG). In the report, Hezbollah’s terror army:...
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Following the fall of Kirkuk, Kurds believe that they are possibly facing prospects of ethnic cleansing and genocide at the hands of the Iraqi government and allied Shiite militias, both backed by Iran, Julie Lenarz, an expert on Kurdistan and Islamic extremism, said in a conference call on Wednesday. Since...
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The BBC has reported Iran to the United Nations for a “sustained campaign of intimidation and harassment,” after Iranian authorities launched an investigation into more than 150 of its staff for “conspiracy against national security.” The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday that the broadcaster, in a complaint to David Kaye, the...
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European companies that insist on doing business with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will “do so at great risk,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday in Saudi Arabia. Tillerson’s remarks were made in a meeting with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who had been the target of a 2011...
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Iran has sentenced to death a man it implicated in the assassination of several senior nuclear scientists and accused of being a spy for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary news agency on Tuesday as saying that “the person had...
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A week and a half ago, President Donald Trump took the first, crucial step towards ending a significant portion of the foreign policy legacy that had been bequeathed to the nation by his predecessor President Barack Obama: the nuclear deal with Iran. What has been largely forgotten by the public is that this...
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