Iran stationed military officials in North Korea last October, apparently to strengthen missile and nuclear cooperation between Tehran and Pyongyang, according to reports in Japanese media. The Kim regime is in the midst of a violent purge that began inside government and party institutions, and which as of last week...

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Analysis citing strain between Iran and Hamas, which has been used by some analysts to urge engagement with the Palestinian terror group, is being called into question as evidence emerges challenge both the analysis and its implied diplomatic recommendations. The suggestion had long been treated asun serious due to repeated...

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Residents in the Gaza Strip have posted large billboards highlighting close ties between Iran and that territory’s ruling Hamas terror group. The billboards thank Tehran for assisting Palestinian terror groups in battling Israelis, and the Associate Press​ commented that the posters’ “prominent location, at busy intersections and next to a...

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Iran is “finding ways to resupply Hamas,” moving weapons through Sudan and Egypt and then into the Gaza Strip, according to U.S. officials. Jerusalem launched Operation Pillar of Defense after a month-long escalation in the amount and sophistication of weapons used by Hamas against Israelis, and Israeli forces proceeded to...

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Iranian warplanes last week attacked a U.S. Air Force Predator drone conducting routine maritime surveillance in international airspace over the Persian Gulf. The two jets, Iranian Su-25 fighters piloted by members of Iran’s elite revolutionary Guard Corps force, failed to hit the drone despite repeated passes. The incident, which elicited...

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International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukio Amano is again emphasizing the dangerous lack of transparency surrounding the Iranian nuclear program. On Monday he blasted Iranian officials for failing to provide the United Nations organization with “necessary cooperation” and he reiterated that the U.N. “cannot conclude that all nuclear material in...

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Iran’s Fars News Agency (FNA) and Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) have signed what the organizations term a “media cooperation program aimed at sharing the media services and expertise.” Both agencies are state-controlled, and disseminate what is widely considered to be disinformation on behalf of the regimes in Tehran and...

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Iran has provided drones to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to opposition forces speaking to CNN. Syrian government troops have reportedly turned the unmanned aircraft against Syrian civilians and rebel forces. The reports come in the aftermath of intelligence reports published in September that documented how “planes...

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Two Iranian warships docked in Sudan yesterday. State-controlled Iranian media described the naval group’s purpose as promoting “peace and friendship,” but the arrival comes just after an explosion at an Iranian-linked Sudanese weapons factory brought renewed international scrutiny to the relationship between Khartoum and Tehran. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has...

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Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi took credit Sunday for the drone dispatched by Hezbollah in early October. The unmanned aircraft penetrated Israeli airspace before being intercepted and shot down by the Israeli Air Force. Vahidi’s remarks echo those of Iranian parliamentary Defense Committee Chairman Esmail Kowsari, who said the drone...

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