Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said that Tehran will continue arming Hezbollah, Hamas, and “any group of the resistance to the U.S. and Israel,” and explained that the Islamic Republic still considered America to be the “Great Satan,” in an interview translated and transcribed by the Middle East Media Research...

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The recently reported arrest of Ahmed al-Mughassil, the head of Saudi Hezbollah, for the 1996 bombing of the United States military barracks at the Khobar Towers complex in Saudi Arabia has once again emphasized the heavy involvement of both Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah in orchestrating the terror attack. In...

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Kuwait charged 24 men with spying for Iran and Hezbollah in order “to carry out aggressive acts” against the state, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Tuesday. The men were charged with “spying for the Islamic republic of Iran and Hezbollah to carry out aggressive acts against the State of Kuwait” by...

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Israel is keeping a “very sharp eye” on Iran’s expanding stock of highly accurate Fateh 313 ballistic missiles, which have twice the range of their predecessor, the Fateh 110, according to an Israeli defense official quoted Saturday in an article published in Defense News. “We assess that Iran has begun to...

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A senior Kuwaiti parliamentarian accused Iran of being the “true enemy” of the Gulf States and “seeking to spread chaos” across the region, The Times of Israel reported yesterday. “It has become clear to all that Iran is an enemy plotting to swallow up our states and resources and is...

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Iranian dissidents abroad who are falling victim to sophisticated cyber-attacks are likely being targeted by Iranian hackers who seek “to steal their email communications and contacts,” according to a report released this week by Canadian researchers, Voice of America reported yesterday. The report, titled “London Calling,” details a multi-layered, real-time...

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In an interview with Hezbollah’s al-Manar television network, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad praised Russian support for his beleaguered regime and hailed the recently concluded nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, saying that “The power of Iran is the power of Syria,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. “We have strong confidence in the...

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Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s parliament speaker, blasted British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and said that “Israel should be annihilated,” Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported today. “Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate...

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Last week’s rocket attacks on the northern Galilee and Golan Heights by a Syrian cell of the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorist group were likely a part of “an Iranian effort to maintain a limited front from which it can engage Israel without igniting a broader war,” and may be repeated “at...

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A sixth Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D – Pa.) from the Philadelphia area, announced his opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in an op-ed published Sunday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Citing his experience as a member of the committee and its...

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