The upcoming Lebanese elections scheduled for next month could lead to the formation of a “Hezbollah government,” a political scientist told Agence France-Presse in a report published Wednesday. The elections would be the first since 2009 and would be held according to Lebanon’s new election law passed last year. The 128 members...

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s, and by extension – Israel’s future, could go in any one of four distinct directions in the coming months. Netanyahu’s current coalition just escaped its most recent crisis – avoiding early elections. At the same time, Netanyahu is the subject of a number of investigations and could face...

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A prominent Iranian cleric said last week that Hezbollah, the terrorist organization that exercises complete political and military control over Lebanon, will “turn Haifa and Tel Aviv into ghost-towns,” The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, who made the threat in his Friday sermon, is a senior member of Iran’s...

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In a conference call with The Israel Project on Tuesday, Dr. Jonathan Spyer, a Middle East journalist and analyst, said that Syria has “become a subcontractor for the ambitions of outside powers,” notably the Islamic Republic of Iran. Spyer explained that Iran’s involvement in Syria is a key part of its...

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A new report says roadside bombs disguised as rocks in Yemen bear similarities to others used by Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and by insurgents in Iraq and Bahrain, the Associated Press reported Monday. The study by Conflict Armament Research comes as the West and United Nations researchers identified...

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Germany has rejected a key United States demand to designate the Lebanon-based Shiite militia Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety as part of talks to rein in the nuclear program in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported for Fox News on Tuesday. Two sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations between...

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A Lebanese Shiite cleric has called for Lebanon to revoke Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s citizenship over his “clear collaboration” and ties to Iran, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini, who previously came out strongly against Iran’s influence in Lebanon and has also sought to spread messages of...

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The deputy leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah said in an interview that his organization is “ready” to confront Israel, Reuters reported Thursday. Hezbollah “is ready to confront the aggression if it happens, if Israel decides to carry out any foolish action,” Naim Qassem told Reuters. “But it does not appear...

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Due to “poor policy choices” in the Middle East, “Iran is winning,” meaning that the United States needs a “clear and coherent strategy to push back” a leading foreign policy voice in the United States Senate wrote Monday in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. Describing his recent trip to...

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The general who formerly headed Syria’s chemical weapons program before defecting in 2013 said that Iran’s proxy Hezbollah has a store of chemical weapons and that Iran itself is testing missiles with chemical warheads, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. General Sha’arq Zuhair al-Saqit, who defected from Syria when ordered to...

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