Mideast Envoys Think Jimmy Carter’s Peace Proposal is Nuts After publishing an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on President Barack Obama to recognize Palestinian statehood and support efforts in the United Nations Security Council to set parameters for a peace agreement, former President Jimmy Carter was the...

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Newly displayed assertiveness by Iran-backed Shiite militias is concerning Sunni residents of the strategic Iraqi city of Tal Afar on the Syria border, the Associated Press reported Friday. With the Iraqi army is currently involved in the battle to defeat the Islamic State in Mosul, the country’s second largest city, the...

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The Senate voted 99-0 on Thursday to extend the Iran Sanctions Act for another ten years. The vote follows a 419-1 vote in the House of Representatives last month. The bill will now go the president for his signature. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that it was necessary to extend...

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A British research group has suggested that arms shipments that were intercepted en route to Houthi rebels in Yemen this year were likely sent with the complicity of the Iranian regime, Reuters reported Tuesday. A report recently released by Conflict Armament Research found that two of the three smuggling ships seized by Western navies in the Arabian...

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The former deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency has criticized the agency for “reduc[ing] the level of transparency and details in its reporting” on Iran’s nuclear program, making it “practically impossible” to confirm that Iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear deal. Olli Heinonen, who worked for...

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Two Iranian men were charged Thursday with plotting a terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahim and Abdolhosein Gholi Safaee were arrested Tuesday after taking pictures of the Israeli embassy on their mobile phones while in an Iranian diplomatic car, prosecutor Duncan Ondimu said. Their driver,...

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Three Democratic senators forcefully rejected recent charges by top Iranian officials that the United States would be violating the nuclear deal if it extended the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), The Weekly Standard reported Tuesday. The House of Representatives passed the ISA’s renewal in a 419-1 vote earlier this month. The bill needs to pass...

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Highly radioactive material was stolen from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, including a supply of iridium-192, an unstable isotope that can be used to manufacture dirty bombs, the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Friday. A dirty bomb combines radioactive material with conventional explosives in order to contaminate the area...

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The son of a late Iranian grand ayatollah was sentenced to prison on Sunday for releasing a recording of his father condemning the thousands of summary executions carried out in the Islamic Republic in the late 1980s, Voice of America reported. Ahmad Montazeri, the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, was...

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An Iranian naval vessel aimed a gun at a U.S. Navy helicopter flying over international waters on Saturday, continuing Tehran’s pattern of aggressive behavior since the implementation of the nuclear deal, Reuters reported. The encounter, which occurred when a Navy MH-60 helicopter flew within a half mile of two Iranian...

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