The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Saturday offered to share its rocket arsenal with any Arab country that would be willing to attack Israel. Fathi Hammad, a spokesman for the Iran-backed Islamist group, said in an interview with the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV that the group  has become “the leading manufacturer of...

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Will Obama (or Trump) Release Secret Iran Documents? Senators from both parties have called on the White House to release documents pertaining to the Iran nuclear deal that are being stored in secured classified facilities despite not actually being classified. The documents reportedly contain American promises regarding the opening-up of Iran’s economy, details of...

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The United Kingdom and Gulf countries will work together to counter Iran’s “aggressive regional actions,” British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Wednesday. May was in Bahrain for the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, which also included leaders from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The UK and those countries signed...

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s leading public intellectual, returns to the United States in January to promote his new book, The Genius of Judaism, perhaps the fullest expression yet of his commitment to the Jewish faith, Jewish culture, and the continued flourishing of the State of Israel. Newly-returned from the Iraqi city...

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A number of Democratic senators, including some who supported the nuclear deal with Iran, are calling for the release of documents related to the deal that have been stored in classified facilities despite not actually being classified. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that the Obama administration placed the documents in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information...

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President-elect Donald Trump will have to avoid “making the same assumptions and often the same mistakes” that prior administrations from both parties have made since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, wrote Monday in Politico. According to him, the...

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While President-elect Donald Trump will likely be stricter in enforcing the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran, the incoming administration should not ignore the threat that Iran’s chemical and biological weapons programs pose, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Monday at Forbes. Enforcing the...

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Documents containing previously-unpublished details of the nuclear deal with Iran could be released after Donald Trump is inaugurated as president next month, The Daily Beast reported Monday. Members of the incoming administration, including Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s pick to be national security advisor, and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kans.), his pick...

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Twelve people who work in the Iranian fashion industry were sentenced to up to six years in prison for “spreading prostitution,” the BBC reported Monday. The twelve were convicted of spreading prostitution and promoting corruption by publishing images online that were considered obscene. They also were charged with causing Muslims...

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An American-Iranian dual national and his wife were arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in July, and have been detained ever since without charge or access to a lawyer in Tehran’s Evin Prison, a New-York based human rights group said on Friday. Before their arrest and detention Karan Vafadari, a...

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