The $1.7 billion cash payment that the White House recently sent to Iran suggests that Washington may have transferred Tehran more than $33 billion in untraceable cash and precious metals since 2014, giving the Islamic Republic greater flexibility to launder money and finance terrorism, a sanctions expert told Congress on Thursday. In his testimony before the House Financial...

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Hamas spends an annual $100 million on its military infrastructure in order to prepare for its next war against Israel, Avi Issacharoff of The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing estimates by Israeli and Palestinian sources. Roughly $40 million is spent on employing around 1,500 diggers to build the Iran-backed terror organization’s network...

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Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, American political leaders have forgotten about the role Iran played in the atrocity, former Democratic senator Joseph Lieberman wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday. The 9/11 Commission found that “there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out...

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Germany’s Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that German aid money is likely being used to provide funds to terrorists and their families, The Times of Israel reported Monday. “There are Palestinian institutions that issue payments to the families of those who were killed or injured, which includes family members of the perpetrators,” Maria Böhmer, a...

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an umbrella body for 57 European, North American, and Central Asian nations in the security field, has chosen Prof. Gabi Weimann of the University of Haifa to plan and establish a new teaching and research framework concerning online terror. “Online incitement, radicalization, and...

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Cooperating with an international anti-money laundering agency is not in Iran’s national interest, because doing so would harm the country’s ongoing support for terror, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted Sunday. Ali Akbar Velayati, chief of the Research Center of the Expediency Council, which advises Khamenei, said in a...

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After representatives from Hamas and the Iranian government met in Beirut on Friday, the two parties promised to work together to unite the Muslim world to face the “Zionist danger” together, Ma’an News reported. Ali Baraka, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, was received at the Iranian embassy in Beirut by the embassy’s head consul,...

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Hamas has opened an official office in Tunisia, a spokesman said Sunday. Moussa Abu Marzouk, one of the Iran-backed terror group’s top officials, publicly announced the opening to a Tunisian news agency on Sunday. Abu Marzouk said that the office was opened with full approval of the Tunisian government. Tunisia is...

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JNS.org – Still flushed with the success, for the Iranians anyway, of the 2015 nuclear deal reached with the United States and other powers, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif this week embarked on a five-nation tour of Latin America to spread the message that Tehran’s global influence is on the up....

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A leading parliamentarian from Germany’s opposition party said that Hamas’ theft of millions of dollars from a Christian charity operating in the Gaza Strip has eroded the trust necessary for foreign donors to finance aid projects in the Palestinian territory, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The National Interest on Tuesday. “World Vision massively damages...

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