Iran announced that it now has access to more than $100 billion in previously frozen assets due to sanctions relief granted by the nuclear deal, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The sum claimed by Tehran is nearly twice the estimate given last month by Secretary of State John Kerry, who said that...

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An ongoing investigation into a “massive” international drug trafficking and money laundering operation run by the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah has resulted in several arrests, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced in a statement released on Monday. The DEA, a division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the arrests...

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Two key figures in Hezbollah’s money-laundering network were hit with sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday. The department officially designated Mohamad Noureddine and Hamdi Zaher El Dine for sanctions due to their financial support and money-laundering for the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, which has been designated as a terrorist organization...

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Israeli opposition politician and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid said that the nuclear deal with Iran will fund the next war that the Islamic Republic’s proxies will wage against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. “Secretary of State [John] Kerry said himself last week that some of the sanctions...

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Israeli authorities announced that they dismantled a cell of the Iran-backed terrorist group, Hezbollah, which was operating in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem under the direction of Jawad Nasrallah, son of the terrorist group’s leader, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The ringleader of the cell was...

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Supporters of the Iran-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad and the terror group Hezbollah have taken to social media to mock residents of the besieged Syrian city of Madaya, who are being starved by the Assad regime and its allies, The Independent reported on Saturday. The hashtag #متضامن_مع_حصار_مضايا, meaning “solidarity with the...

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The United States Treasury Department sanctioned a Lebanese businessman for his support of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, marking the first application of the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015, The Hill reported on Thursday. The act passed both houses of Congress unanimously, and was signed into law by President Obama last month....

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Forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah have laid siege to roughly 40,000 people near Madaya, a predominantly Sunni town near Syria’s border with Lebanon, leading to widespread starvation and a severe deterioration in living conditions, the Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday. Residents of Madaya,...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah detonated an explosive device near an IDF bulldozer and another vehicle beside the Israel-Lebanon border on Monday afternoon, The Times of Israel reported. The attack, which took place near Shebaa Farms, also known as Har Dov, prompted Israel to fire approximately 20 artillery shells into southern...

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Foreign banks must cease any business dealings with the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah or its proxies to avoid being blocked from the American financial system, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The restrictions stem from a new law, which unanimously passed both houses of Congress at the end of last year. The Hezbollah...

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