Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince said in a recent interview that dialogue between his nation and Iran is impossible because of the latter’s “extremist ideology,” The New York Times reported Wednesday. Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who serves as Riyadh’s defense minister and is second in line to the throne, said his...

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Iran will continue sending “military advisers” to Syria in order to boost the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander told Iran’s Fars news agency on Tuesday. Though Iran has been sending military support to Assad since at least 2012, it didn’t publicly acknowledge doing so until...

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The Trump administration’s national security advisor, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, accused Iran of applying the “Hezbollah model” to take advantage of weak regimes and destabilize the Middle East on Fox News this past Sunday. According to McMaster, the “Hezbollah model” strategy includes targeting weak governments in the region and...

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The United Arab Emirates sentenced a man to ten years in prison for smuggling parts to Iran for use in its nuclear program, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The man, an Iranian citizen identified only by his initials S.M.A.R., was convicted of smuggling an electric motor and other devices. While the UAE’s official press...

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Explosions rocked the area near Damascus International Airport early Thursday morning following the arrival of cargo planes from Iran. “Hours before the blasts, which took place at 3:25 A.M., two Iranian 747 cargo planes, an Iranian Ilyushin il-76 and a Syrian Ilyushin il-76 landed in Damascus, according to the flight...

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A “fast attack craft” operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 1,000 yards of a United States Navy destroyer in the Persian Gulf on Monday, U.S. officials told Fox News. The Iranian vessel approached the USS Mahan with its weapons manned, prompting the U.S. destroyer to alter its course, sound a danger...

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Lebanon’s government does not function independently, but rather “exists merely because the Iranian proxy terrorist organisation, Hezbollah, allows it to exist,” a retired Australian military officer wrote Monday in The Australian. Jim Molan, who had served as chief of operations in Iraq and authored Australia’s border control policies, observed that the current calm along...

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The Obama administration’s decision to release several high-profile Iranian prisoners in order to secure the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal undermined Washington’s ability to counter Tehran’s nuclear and missile proliferation efforts, Politico reported Monday. In January 2016, the Obama administration released seven Iranian-born prisoners—six of whom were also U.S. citizens—convicted or accused of...

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Whitewashing Barghouti The New York Times was widely criticized for publishing an op-ed by Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti last Sunday without initially mentioning that he was convicted of multiple murders. Yair Lapid, leader of Israel’s Yesh Atid party, blasted the paper for its decision, writing, “Instead of saying to him –...

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The United States ambassador to the United Nations identified Iran, along with its proxy group Hezbollah, as the “chief culprit” behind instability in the Middle East during a Security Council meeting on Thursday. “If we are speaking honestly about conflict in the Middle East, we need to start with the...

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