Iran

The European Union (EU) announced that it would place a unit of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and two of its agents under sanctions for attempted terror plots on European soil, Reuters reported Tuesday. The EU’s decision follows two well-publicized attempted terror attacks against dissidents in Paris and Denmark last year. The action...

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In a sign of the warming ties between Israel and Arab countries, three Iraqi delegations visited the Jewish State in recent months, while the leader of Iraq’s Ummah Party Mithal al-Alusi recently said that establishing ties with Israel was in his country’s “interest.” The Times of Israel reported on Sunday...

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On a state visit to Israel, John Bolton, the National Security Adviser of the United States, assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the proposed withdrawal of American troops from Syria will be gradual and will not put Israel or other U.S. allies in “jeopardy,” The Washington Post reported Sunday....

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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that Iran would face “deeper economic and diplomatic isolation” if it went ahead with its planned launches of Space Launched Vehicles (SLV), The Hill reported Thursday. Pompeo was reacting to a recent release from Iran’s defense ministry stating that it planned to launch 3...

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International institutions devoted to promoting peace and cooperation are admirable in theory but in practice, during 2018, two of them — the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency — have failed to live up to their founding principles and protect Israel. The UN, according to its charter, was...

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Two women imprisoned by the Iranian regime in the infamous Evin prison have announced their intent to participate in a hunger strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to grant them access to adequate health care, the Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen, wrote in a letter that...

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