The former head of Israel’s military intelligence on Monday presented the country’s president with an annual security assessment, which highlights Hezbollah as the country’s most potent threat. Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin presented President Reuven Rivlin with the strategic assessment for 2016 – 2017 on behalf of the Institute for...
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The discovery of a working North Korean missile site that was previously thought to be inactive may suggest that the country is cooperating with Iran on ballistic missile and nuclear technology, Voice of America reported Wednesday. PRESS RELEASE: Strategic Sentinel Finds Previously Unknown North Korean Site Read more here: https://t.co/NJk9a9LBgd#NorthKorea #VOA...
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Newly disclosed side agreements to the nuclear deal with Iran reveal that the Islamic Republic is allowed to exceed limits on its nuclear-related stockpiles without penalty, a leading nuclear expert told The Weekly Standard on Friday. David Albright, a former weapons inspector and current president of the Institute for Science and International Security,...
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The government of Iran has told an imprisoned dual British-Iranian citizen that she must care for her two-year-old daughter in the notorious Evin Prison or sign away her parental rights, The Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at the Tehran Imam Khomeini...
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Iran and Russia share a military base in Syria in order to coordinate their defense of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a top Iranian security official revealed Tuesday. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by Iranian media as claiming that there is “a shared base in Syria where Iran,...
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The European aviation giant Airbus announced Thursday that it has concluded an $18 billion deal to sell 100 planes to Iran’s national airline, which has used its fleet to transport troops and weapons to Syria. Airbus, which is the second biggest airplane manufacturer in the world after Boeing, will begin delivering the...
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The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has warned that unless Iran slows down the pace at which it is enriching uranium, it will exceed the limits that the nuclear deal set on its possession of the material, senior diplomats told the Associated Press on Monday. While the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),...
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Photographs emerged on Friday of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian commander who is under a United Nations travel ban, touring conquered eastern Aleppo, Amir Toumaj reported in the Long War Journal. It is unclear when the photographs, which were posted on social media, were originally taken. A research analyst at the Foundation...
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An Israeli legal rights group has filed a lawsuit in Illinois to block Boeing’s pending $16.6 billion jet sale to Iran, the Associated Press reported Friday. Shurat HaDin–Israel Law Center, an independent non-profit headed by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, said that it was seeking a lien against Boeing until Tehran pays off billions of dollars in damages to American victims...
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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and Shiite militias fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been accused of committing massacres as civilians and rebel fighters were being evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Voice of American reported Friday. According to leaders of the Syrian opposition, Shiite militiamen commanded by Iran stopped a convoy carrying some 800...
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