Arabic media outlets are expressing worry that negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran will not bring a good result—not for the United States and certainly not for the Arab countries. U.S. President Barack Obama is being depicted in the Arab press as a puppet and a lover of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei. Every...

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In a televised speech yesterday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that “there is no place extending on the land of occupied Palestine that the resistance’s rockets cannot reach.” The Times of Israel reports that Nasrallah made specific threats: Hezbollah’s secretary-general also pledged that the Shiite organization’s rockets would force Israel...

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In an analysis published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Singh, managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, writes that though the United States in recent years has become more accepting of Tehran’s positions, “the changes in U.S.-Iran relations have been decidedly one-sided.” Singh writes that while...

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After the recent capture of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, by Shiite rebels, an Iranian official has boasted that the Islamic Republic now controls four Arab capitals. The other three capitals are Damascus, Syria; Baghdad, Iraq; and Beirut, Lebanon. The boast, which was reported in an analysis published yesterday by Lt. Col. (ret.)...

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A wave of condemnation against Hezbollah has broken out in Lebanon over the terrorist organization’s ongoing involvement in the Syrian civil war and clashes that haven broken out in Lebanon in recent weeks, particularly in Tripoli. On Sunday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah once again defended the organization’s involvement in the Syrian crisis, saying...

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Hezbollah has set up a “security zone” along the length of the Syria-Lebanon border – and has staffed it with over 1,000 fighters who patrol the area on a 24-hour basis – as the Iran-backed terror organization struggles to cope with mounting losses in Syria and with continued blowback from...

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On Friday, Lebanon’s NOW media outlet reported that a Lebanese national, Mohammad Amadar, was arrested in Lima, Peru last week. NOW reported that explosives and a detonator were found in Amadar’s apartment and cited an Israeli news report that he had “planned to ‘execute a major attack’ against Jewish targets....

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Yesterday Lebanon’s NOW media outlet reported that Iran has offered to send arms to Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) amid growing violence between the LAF and Sunni jihadi groups in the northern city of Tripoli. At a religious ceremony Monday in the southern town of Al-Zarariyeh, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah pointed to...

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In ISIS: Can the West Win Without a Ground Game?, published in the October 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Jonathan Spyer outlines the dilemmas facing policy makers who wish to, in the words of President Barack Obama, “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)....

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An analysis written for Lebanon’s NOW media outlet yesterday argues that Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria has “strained” the terrorist group’s resources and is potentially alienating it from its power base, the Shiite population of Lebanon. The author of the analysis, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, observed that in order to justify its involvement outside...

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