Sanctions imposed by the United States Treasury Department on Iran will make those associated with its illicit nuclear program “radioactive,” according to a senior administration official at a State Department briefing, NBC News reported Friday. An administration official quoted in the briefing acknowledged that the information used in imposing the sanctions was...

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt defended on Thursday his country’s decision to ban the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah in its entirety, calling the distinction between the group’s political and military wing an “illusion.” “The British Government will not entertain the illusion that Hizballah can be cleanly divided into political and...

The Islamic Republic of Iran, one of the worst human rights abusers in the world and top state sponsor of international terrorism, has been appointed a seat on the United Nations’ Women’s Rights Committee, Hillel Neuer of the watchdog group UN Watch reported Wednesday. Neuer described the appointment as sending...

After a buildup on social media, the IDF revealed intelligence that Hezbollah set up a cell on the Syrian Golan headed by a terrorist who is wanted for killing five American soldiers in Iraq, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. According to the IDF, the Hezbollah cell is made up...

A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail on top of the five-year term she is already serving for defending protesters against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab laws, the BBC reported Monday. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an award-winning women’s rights activist, was arrest last...

As the effects of Western sanctions take effect, the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah, has reached out to its supporters for financial assistance, Reuters reported Friday. “I announce today that the resistance is in need of its (popular base),” Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech last week. The...