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The incursion on an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace and the subsequent Israeli response on Saturday shows that Israel considers Iran’s efforts “to consolidate their strategic position” in Syria and Lebanon to threaten the Jewish state “unsustainable,” two experts on the Middle East in an op-ed published Sunday in The...

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The Iranian regime said that a Canadian-Iranian environmentalist killed himself in prison last week after having been arrested two weeks earlier, the BBC reported Sunday. Authorities told the wife of Kavous Seyed-Emami on Friday that he had died in Iran’s infamous Evin prison. Emami’s son, Raam, an Iranian singer who...

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The interception of an Iranian drone that targeted Israel suggests that the chances for a war between Israel and Iran-led forces, the first Israel-Shia war, have increased, General (ret.) Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel’s military intelligence told a conference call on Saturday. The call was hosted by The...

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In March 2015, Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) posted a letter on his website, signed by 46 other Republican senators, arguing that any deal with Iran that was not approved by the United States Senate would just be an executive agreement that would not necessarily have force in American law...

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Even without President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, the accord has been “endangered” because of the “lack of bipartisan support,” a former White House official wrote in an analysis for Foreign Policy, earlier this week. Michael Singh, a former member of the National Security...

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More than 200 civilians have been killed since Monday in Syrian regime airstrikes on parts of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, The Guardian reported. The neighborhood has been surrounded by Syrian forces for more than four years, with the siege intensifying in May when regime troops, backed by Iran and...

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