In an interview with Hezbollah’s al-Manar television network, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad praised Russian support for his beleaguered regime and hailed the recently concluded nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, saying that “The power of Iran is the power of Syria,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. “We have strong confidence in the...

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Iran’s presence in Afghanistan, which is growing alongside that of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), “promotes chaos and radicalism” within the country and harms “forces of moderation and order,” Kyle Orton argued in an analysis published today at National Review Online. While Iran has claimed that it...

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Thousands of Shiite Afghan refugees have been recruited by Iran to fight in defense of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. Shiite Iran, Assad’s key military and financial patron, denies enlisting Afghan mercenaries to fight alongside Syrian forces in the four-year conflict against opposition...

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Last week’s rocket attacks on the northern Galilee and Golan Heights by a Syrian cell of the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorist group were likely a part of “an Iranian effort to maintain a limited front from which it can engage Israel without igniting a broader war,” and may be repeated “at...

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The nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will provide Tehran with the means “to produce [enriched] uranium on an industrial scale” after fifteen years, according to an analysis of the deal published yesterday in The New York Times. This would...

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The Israel Defense Forces identified an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Qods Force general as being responsible for yesterday’s rocket attacks into northern Israel and, in retaliation, launched a series of raids against Syrian military targets, The Times of Israel reported today. According to a senior Israeli security official, Saeed...

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Israel struck several targets inside Syria in retaliation for four rockets that hit the northern Galilee and Golan Heights late Thursday afternoon, The Times of Israel reported today. The Israeli military said it fired artillery shells at several Syrian targets Thursday evening, hours after four rockets were fired into Israel...

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The United Nations stood behind condemnation of the Syrian government issued by special envoy Staffan de Mistura after Sunday airstrikes on a busy marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus, left a reported 96 people dead, the Associated Press reported yesterday. In a statement Monday, de Mistura condemned the government...

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Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and one of its chief nuclear negotiators, said that no nuclear inspectors will be allowed to enter the Islamic Republic unless previously approved by its intelligence agency, the Washington Free Beacon reported yesterday. “Any individual, out of IAEA’s Inspection group, who is not approved...

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Cyber-attacks perpetrated by Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah against Israeli government and military bodies have gotten more sophisticated in the past year, an IDF major stated in an interview Thursday with David Shamah, the technology reporter for The Times of Israel. The major insisted on anonymity for security reasons. “While we’ve had cyber attacks all along, it...

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