At a memorial service marking 25 years since the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Islamic Republic is responsible for more than 80 percent of the security threats facing Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Netanyahu pointed out that Iran orchestrated the 1992 attack...

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A new Iranian film shows the country’s forces destroying a U.S. Navy fleet, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Battle of Persian Gulf II, directed by Farhad Azima, has opened in the city of  Mashhad and will expand to other cities in the coming weeks. Azima told the AP that producers crowdfunded $250,000 for the movie, which was...

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Iran is using its strategic ties to North Korea to advance its illicit nuclear weapons program, two experts for the Begin-Sadat Center wrote in a paper published Tuesday. Lt. Col. (ret.) Dr. Refael Ofek and Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham wrote that if Iran “is unwilling to lose years...

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The Iranian Navy announced on Monday that it had successfully tested the new domestically-developed Dehlaviyeh anti-ship missile during large-scale war games in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s naval drills, which began on Sunday, will reportedly take place over two million square kilometers (772,000 square miles—nearly three times the size of Texas). The military...

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The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Iran last week railed against the “Zionist enemy” and expressed his hope that the Islamic Republic will develop nuclear weapons, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported. Palestinian Ambassador to Iran: I Pray that Iran Will Produce 1,000 Nuclear Bombs pic.twitter.com/4XXP0Qsfjd — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) February 26, 2017 In...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shot down speculation that leaders of the 2009 anti-regime protests would be freed, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Khamenei said last week that public calls for “national reconciliation,” which would come about by freeing opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi from their indefinite house arrest,...

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Iranian officials have banned two siblings from participating in future chess tournaments after the sister failed to cover her hair and the brother played an Israeli opponent at a festival earlier this year. Dorsa Derakhshani, an 18-year-old chess grandmaster, was kicked off Iran’s national team after she failed to wear the Islamic hair covering...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday described Israel as a “cancerous tumor” and called for a “holy intifada” to destroy the Jewish state. Khamenei’s latest threat came in a speech introducing the regime’s sixth conference in support of a Palestinian intifada, or violent uprising against Israel. The conference was held in...

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A top Iranian general violated a United Nations travel ban by flying to Moscow on Tuesday, Fox News reported, citing Western intelligence officials. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force, is banned from traveling outside of Iran by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747 (which Russia voted for)....

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The United Nations warned Lebanese President Michel Aoun against arming Hezbollah, a day after Aoun said that the Iran-backed terrorist organization was essential to Lebanon’s security. Sigrid Kaag, the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, tweeted Monday, “Recalling SCR 1701 vital 4 Lebanon’s stability-security. Resolution calls 4 disarmament all armed groups....

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