The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, affiliated with the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, reported (Arabic link) that Tehran has opened new credit lines to Syria, topping off a financial aid package worth more than $6 billion. The report also claimed that game-changing Russian arms are en route to the Syrian regime, and that...

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Iran, the main ally of the Syrian regime, is trying to bring Turkey into an alliance with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to leaked documents published in Al-Arab (Arabic link). The Iranians are doing this using a variety of methods, including emphasizing the growing conflict between the American and Turkish governments. In...

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Hamas is seeking to mend ties with Syria and Iran according to policy brief written Thursday by Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Alfoneh cited an interview Hamas spokesman, Osama Hamdan, gave to an Iranian news agency. Speaking to Iran’s ISNA news agency, Hamas...

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This week, Iran hosted a private conference attended by Shiite and some Sunni Islamic militias from surrounding Arab states, the Al-Arab newspaper reported on Thursday (Arabic link). Diplomatic sources in Tehran said that the conference was intended to rebuild Tehran’s alliance in the Middle East and develop ways to confront...

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Even as he was blasting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for corruption on Monday, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran increased the organization’s budget by 50%. Bloomberg News reports that Rouhani enacted this increase even as oil prices, a primary source of Iran’s revenues, are dropping: Rouhani proposed increasing the Islamic Revolutionary...

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Hamas, the terrorist organization which  rules the Gaza Strip, is again courting Tehran and preparing to announce its support of the Iranian leadership and of the Syrian regime. Diplomatic sources told the Al-Arab newspaper (Arabic link) that a Hamas delegation, which is currently visiting Tehran, wants to regain the trust...

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A day after allegations of Israeli strikes in Syria, speculation concerning the circumstances of the attacks point to an Israeli interception of a missile stockpile en route to Hezbollah terrorists. Syrian television claimed that the Israeli military hit targets near Damascus on December 8. The regime of Bashar al-Assad rushed...

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In response to a growing list of casualties in Syria and a significant decrease in funding by Iran, the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah has expanded its involvement in illegal businesses including arms and drug trafficking. According to a media investigation by conducted the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan (Arabic link), several senior...

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Iraqi Kurds “see themselves as alone” in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) according to an analysis Monday written by Jackson Diehl, a member of The Washington Post’s editorial board. While Diehl observes that though the Kurds have given “Iraq’s central government another chance” and not immediately...

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Media outlets in the Arab world are reporting today extensively on the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 powers, and largely denouncing the Western willingness to extend the deadline for achieving a nuclear agreement. According to certain commentators in Arabic language outlets, Iran held the upper hand in the last round of...

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