A video reportedly showing a drone operated by Hezbollah attacking a number of targets near Aleppo was released by a media source close to the terrorist group on Tuesday. Three separate attacks are seen in the video: the first is described as targeting “a [rebel] leader’s base,” the second is against a...

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An Argentine judge has ordered the reopening of an investigation into former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner over her alleged efforts to cover-up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Judge Claudio Bonadio asked fellow judge Daniel Rafecas, who closed the...

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The case of British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran since April, charged with scheming to enact the “soft overthrow” of the Iranian regime, and separated from her two-year-old daughter, should prompt a reconsideration of whether the UK should normalize relations with Iran, an editorial in The...

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Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Barack Obama telling him to “quickly fix” a Supreme Court ruling allowing terror victims to collect $2 billion from frozen Iranian assets, the Associated Press reported Monday. The Supreme Court ruled 6 – 2 in April that 1,300 American victims of Iranian terror...

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An Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the United States in 2009 only to return to his country the next year has been executed in Iran for giving “vital information to the enemy,” the Iranian judiciary announced Sunday. Shahram Amiri had been sentenced to death by an lower court before his execution...

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Americans being freed from Iranian captivity were not allowed to leave the Islamic Republic until “another plane” had arrived, one of the hostages said in an interview on Thursday, lending credence to the perception that the U.S.’s $400 million cash payment to Iran at the same time as the hostage transfer...

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Senior officials at the Department of Justice (DoJ) were overruled after they objected to the Obama administration’s plan to send $400 million in cash to Iran at the same time that American hostages were released, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. “People knew what it was going to...

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The next war between Israel and Hezbollah “will be catastrophic” because the Iran-backed terror organization has stationed its military assets inside “built-up population centers in cities, towns and villages” in Lebanon, Stéphane Cohen, head of diplomatic outreach and security analysis for The Israel Project (which publishes The Tower), wrote in The Times of Israel on Thursday....

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Iran executed a gay teenager last month in contravention of international law, which prohibits the application of the death penalty to minors, Amnesty International revealed on Tuesday. Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in the Arak prison on July 18 after being convicted of “forced male-to-male anal intercourse.” He was arrested...

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Hackers believed to be associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accessed user accounts of the secure messaging app Telegram earlier this year, identifying the phone numbers of millions of Iranians, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The breach is the largest yet of the secure messaging system, cybersecurity experts told...

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