Iran

In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Daniel Schwammenthal, the director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, has warned that failure to confront Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah over its violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 will make a future war between Israel and Lebanon more likely....

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In a demonstration of its complete control over Lebanon, Hezbollah hosted members of an Iraqi Shiite militia along the border with Israel. Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iraqi militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq, as well as members of the militia appeared in a video that was released Saturday, with members of...

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Returning from a trip to the Middle East including a stop in Iran, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that it was “too early to be confident” that a British-Iranian dual citizen would be released by Iran before Christmas, even as evidence emerged that Iran is seeking what is effectively a...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif asserted that during nuclear talks in 2005 “Britain, France and Germany suddenly demanded that we abandon all enrichment activities” after which “the talks fell apart,” in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times, a recollection that does not match the paper’s reporting twelve...

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On the heels of a report this week documenting Iran’s increasingly aggressive hacking attacks around the globe, a cybersecurity expert assessed that the advanced nature of the attacks suggests a “coordinated, probably military, endeavor,” CyberScoop an online industry news site reported Thursday. A report released this week, by FireEye, a cybersecurity firm,...

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Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed his anger over the decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, threatening that Palestine will be “freed” and claiming that America was starting a “war in the region to protect the security of the Zionist regime.” The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday...

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