Iran’s assistance in helping the Syrian government capture the rebel-held city of Aleppo, which has been subjected to air strikes that French President Francois Hollande has characterized as war crimes, is part of the Islamic Republic’s long-held strategy to build and control a land route to the Mediterranean Sea, The Guardian reported on Sunday. Iranian proxy...

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The United States Navy retaliated for two recent attacks on U.S. ships by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, firing cruise missiles at radar sites in rebel-held territories early Thursday. All three targeted radar sites were destroyed at 4:00 AM local time by the USS Nitze, the Pentagon announced. Pentagon press secretary Peter...

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A senior Hamas official said that the terrorist organization wants to strengthen ties with Iran, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Monday. “Mahmoud al-Zahar underlined that the Palestinian resistance group is seeking to reinvigorate relations with Iran,” Fars wrote. “Relations with Iran are acceptable but they should further enhance and develop,” al-Zahar told the...

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Iran is forcing women to cover their hair at the next world chess championship—and the reigning American female chess champion is circulating a petition in protest. Nazí Paikidze-Barnes, 22, exceeded her initial goal of collecting 15,000 signatures on Tuesday, one week after her appeal was first posted online. The petition...

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Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired two missiles at a U.S. Navy destroyer traveling north of the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait near Yemen on Sunday evening, a U.S. military spokesman said. The USS Mason was “conducting routine operations in international waters in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen” when crew members “detected two inbound missiles over...

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Iran’s continued illicit behavior is making European banks and companies wary of doing business with it, even after the end of nuclear-related sanctions, President Barack Obama’s former Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence told The Weekly Standard on Thursday. Stuart Levey, now the chief legal officer of London-based HSBC Holdings, one of the world’s...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Saudi Arabia to avoid sailing in international waters next to Iranian territory while the kingdom is conducting ongoing naval exercises, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. “We declare to all the vessels present in Saudi Arabia’s stated wargames, including the Saudi navy’s vessels and others, that the IRGC Navy believes that...

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blasted Iran for its “alarming rate” of executions and the lack of improvement made under the administration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a report released this week. Ban is “deeply troubled” by accounts “of executions, floggings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, unfair trials, denial of access to medical care...

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A Canadian academic who was freed after spending nearly four months in an Iranian prison on murky charges told CBC News on Wednesday that her interrogators “threatened to send my dead body back to Canada.” Homa Hoodfar, a retired professor of anthropology at Concordia University who was released on September 26, told CBC...

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Rockets fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen struck and badly damaged a United Arab Emirates ship traveling through a strategic Red Sea waterway on Saturday, the Long War Journal reported. U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday that the weapons used in the attack were supplied by Iran. The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait is a...

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