Human rights groups are blasting Iran for broadcasting videos of “apparently coerced confessions” of Sunni prisoners who were recently hanged during “one of the largest mass executions” in Iran’s history, The New York Times reported Thursday. The videos, shown on state-controlled websites and television since the August 2 executions of at...

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The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a ten-year extension of the Iran Sanctions Act by a vote of 419-1 on Tuesday. The bill does not impose new sanctions on Iran, but does extend the life of currently-existing ones that were created in response to Iran’s support for terrorism. It also gives the president the...

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The ambassadors of eleven Arab countries to the United Nations on Monday harshly condemned Iran’s continued sponsorship of terrorist groups and destabilizing interference in the internal affairs of regional powers, the Associated Press reported. In a letter sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the representatives of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman,...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is “effectively controlling Lebanon” following the recent election of its ally Michel Aoun to the Lebanese presidency, David Daoud, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, warned in a Newsweek analysis published on Sunday. While Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif personally visited and congratulated Aoun...

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Iran and Russia are currently negotiating an estimated $10 billion arms deal, which would see the Islamic Republic buy Russian tanks, artillery systems, planes, and helicopters. Viktor Ozerov, the chairman of the defense and security committee in the upper house of the Russian Parliament, told the media on Monday while on...

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The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah showed off its “massive” arsenal of armored vehicles during a “military parade” near the northern Syrian city of al-Qusayr on Sunday, the website al-Masdar News, which is associated with the terror group, reported. Columns of armored vehicles were visible in photos uploaded to Hezbollah-affiliated social media accounts....

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A terrorist with close ties to Iran has been installed as the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Imad al-Alami will take over from current Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh, who is moving to Qatar, likely in order to replace Khaled Meshaal as leader of...

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Israel will not allow Iran to establish a presence in Syria along the Israeli border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Jerusalem. Netanyahu explained Israel’s two overriding principles when it comes to defending itself from Iran: “First, prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons and second,...

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The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces boasted at a public ceremony that his country has provided the terrorist group Hezbollah with missile technology that enabled them to target Israeli civilians, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported Thursday. “Iran established the missile industry for Syria in Aleppo in...

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Iran has once again violated the cap on the amount of heavy water, nuclear runoff that can be used to produce weaponizable material, it may possess under the terms of the nuclear deal, Reuters reported on Wednesday. This is the second time since the implementation of the nuclear deal in January that Iran...

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