Iran remained the “foremost state sponsor of terrorism in 2016,” the U.S. State Department announced in an annual report on global terrorism released this week. Iran was first designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984. Militant Islamist groups supported by Iran, including Lebanon-based Hezbollah, continue “to threaten U.S. allies and interests,”...

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday denounced the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s ongoing military buildup in Lebanon. “I share Israeli concerns on the arming of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon,” Macron told reporters after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris. “We seek Lebanon’s stability with due regard to all...

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New details have emerged about underground weapons factories that Iran is building for its proxy group Hezbollah in Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The existence of the factories was first reported in March by a Kuwaiti newspaper quoting an unnamed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general. Last...

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London mayor Sadiq Khan has called on UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd to outlaw Hezbollah’s political and military wing, after flags of the Iran-backed terror group were openly flown during al-Quds Day in the capital last month, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. During the rally, children were draped in...

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Israel’s chief of staff has revealed that the Israel Defense Forces will take measures against an Iranian built missile factory run by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Addressing the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Lt-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said that dealing with the factory is the IDF’s top priority and that “we’re...

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Iran is not shy about its aim of spreading influence abroad, nor its apparent success with establishing a “visible presence … just a stone’s throw from Israel,” The Jerusalem Post’s Seth J. Frantzman reported Wednesday. Just meters from the fence that separates Israel and Lebanon, where the Israeli community of...

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Iran is a major state sponsor of terrorism that gives anti-Israel groups hundreds of millions of dollars each year, the intelligence chief of the Israel Defense Forces said during the IDC Herzliya Conference on Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi detailed how Iran contributes $50 million to Hamas’ annual budget, while...

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Thursday demanded that the UN Security Council take action against the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, which is operating in southern Lebanon in violation of Security Council resolutions 1559 and 1701, Ynet reported. Danon’s letter mentioned an April incident when members of...

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The IDF’s chief of staff said on Tuesday that the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah has a presence in “every third or fourth house” in southern Lebanon, in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for the removal of all armed groups from the area. Speaking at the annual Herzliya...

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Just weeks after the British government spent millions on putting armed police on the streets to make people feel “safer” in wake of the recent terror attacks, authorities have taken the bizarre decision to allow hundreds of Hezbollah sympathizers to march through the streets of London on Sunday to mark...

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