The European Union (EU) announced that it would place a unit of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and two of its agents under sanctions for attempted terror plots on European soil, Reuters reported Tuesday. The EU’s decision follows two well-publicized attempted terror attacks against dissidents in Paris and Denmark last year. The action...

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In a sign of the warming ties between Israel and Arab countries, three Iraqi delegations visited the Jewish State in recent months, while the leader of Iraq’s Ummah Party Mithal al-Alusi recently said that establishing ties with Israel was in his country’s “interest.” The Times of Israel reported on Sunday...

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On a state visit to Israel, John Bolton, the National Security Adviser of the United States, assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the proposed withdrawal of American troops from Syria will be gradual and will not put Israel or other U.S. allies in “jeopardy,” The Washington Post reported Sunday....

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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that Iran would face “deeper economic and diplomatic isolation” if it went ahead with its planned launches of Space Launched Vehicles (SLV), The Hill reported Thursday. Pompeo was reacting to a recent release from Iran’s defense ministry stating that it planned to launch 3...

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International institutions devoted to promoting peace and cooperation are admirable in theory but in practice, during 2018, two of them — the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency — have failed to live up to their founding principles and protect Israel. The UN, according to its charter, was...

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Two women imprisoned by the Iranian regime in the infamous Evin prison have announced their intent to participate in a hunger strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to grant them access to adequate health care, the Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen, wrote in a letter that...

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In a meeting with leaders of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei encouraged them to maintain their “resistance” to Israel, whose defeat is “imminent,” Iran’s semi-official PressTV news reported Monday. “As long as there is resistance, the Zionist regime’s downfall and demise will...

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A German company that sold parts to Iran that were later used to build rockets, announced that it had stopped doing business with the Islamic Republic, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post Thursday. Rainer Westermann, a spokesman for The Krempel Group, said that as of several months ago, the company “no longer...

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Satellite images released by an Israeli company show that a Hezbollah facility for storing Fajr-5 missiles was destroyed by overnight airstrikes Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The missile storehouse was located on an Iranian base in Syria, approximately 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border with Israel. The Fajr-5 missiles...

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The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have enlisted some 18,000 child soldiers into their group since the beginning of the civil war in 2014, as a heartbroken teacher told them: “They were taken from the school and returned in coffins.” The former teacher from...

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