A senior Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday in a bid to bolster the relationship with the Islamic Republic. The visit included senior Hamas figure Izzat al-Rishq, currently based in Qatar, and head of the Hamas administration Saleh al-Arouri. They were formally invited to the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian...

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An Iranian journalist facing the death penalty in her home country has been granted asylum in Israel, where she is expected to arrive shortly. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotoveli said on Monday that Neda Amin would be arriving in Israel “in the coming days,” though her initial plans to come to...

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Iran Tests Limits of Nuclear Deal In the wake of new sanctions imposed by Washington on Iran’s ballistic missile program, the Islamic Republic has falsely claimed that the United States is in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal. However, this claim blatantly contradicted assurances given by Obama administration officials who advocated...

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Nothing subverts a cliché better than a look behind the polished façade. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a case in point. The Iranian mullahcracy has long been portrayed by supporters of the nuclear deal as a country in flux, with moderate forces slowly making their way to power at...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is smuggling arms shipments to Houthi rebels in Yemen through a new route across the Gulf, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In the past, Iran shipped military equipment and personnel either directly to Yemen or via Somalia, but sought new routes after several shipments were confiscated...

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Iran is claiming that recent sanctions imposed on its ballistic missile program by the United States violate the 2015 nuclear deal, even though the administration of former President Barack Obama repeatedly stressed that the accord only freed Iran from nuclear-related sanctions, Reuters reported Tuesday. “Iran’s JCPOA supervisory body assessed the new U.S. sanctions...

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Iran helped fuel violent clashes over the installation of metal detectors at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last month by providing food packages to demonstrators, Palestinian sources told Israel Hayom this week. Iran distributed food and drinks along with a flyer depicting the Dome of the Rock and a quote...

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In territory that Hezbollah’s forces captured in northeastern Lebanon last week, “nowhere was there any evidence of the Lebanese state,” correspondents for The Washington Post reported on Saturday. Earlier that day, the journalists participated in a tour organized by the Iranian proxy in response to recent comments by President Donald Trump, who denounced Hezbollah...

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A Hezbollah commander said that the Iranian proxy group plans to bring its war against Israel to “the Galilee someday soon,” Buzzfeed News reported Sunday. The outlet reported on Iran’s multinational network of tens of thousands of highly trained and experienced combatants from across the Middle East, which Tehran uses to...

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A United States Navy helicopter fired flares on Friday at Iranian vessels that approached a group of American ships “at a high rate of speed,” in the latest Persian Gulf encounter between U.S. and Iranian forces. The helicopter, which was attached to the USS Nimitz and an accompanying warship, was patrolling...

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