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The discovery of a working North Korean missile site that was previously thought to be inactive may suggest that the country is cooperating with Iran on ballistic missile and nuclear technology, Voice of America reported Wednesday. PRESS RELEASE: Strategic Sentinel Finds Previously Unknown North Korean Site Read more here: https://t.co/NJk9a9LBgd#NorthKorea #VOA...

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Lebanon’s parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to approve a national unity government, which includes representatives of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. Lawmakers voted 87 in favor, four against and one abstention, to approve Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri’s cabinet. He had presented the 30-member cabinet earlier this month, having been asked...

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Newly disclosed side agreements to the nuclear deal with Iran reveal that the Islamic Republic is allowed to exceed limits on its nuclear-related stockpiles without penalty, a leading nuclear expert told The Weekly Standard on Friday. David Albright, a former weapons inspector and current president of the Institute for Science and International Security,...

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The government of Iran has told an imprisoned dual British-Iranian citizen that she must care for her two-year-old daughter in the notorious Evin Prison or sign away her parental rights, The Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at the Tehran Imam Khomeini...

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Iran and Russia share a military base in Syria in order to coordinate their defense of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a top Iranian security official revealed Tuesday. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by Iranian media as claiming that there is “a shared base in Syria where Iran,...

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The European aviation giant Airbus announced Thursday that it has concluded an $18 billion deal to sell 100 planes to Iran’s national airline, which has used its fleet to transport troops and weapons to Syria. Airbus, which is the second biggest airplane manufacturer in the world after Boeing, will begin delivering the...

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