Ambassador Nikki Haley, who announced Tuesday that she would be leaving her post as United States Ambassador to the United Nations at the end of the year, made her mark by vigorously defending Israel in the often-hostile world body. But Haley didn’t just defend the Jewish state, she also pointed...

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An Iranian diplomat linked to a foiled terror attack that targeted a rally organized by an Iranian opposition group near Paris in June has been extradited to Belgium from Germany, security officials said Tuesday. The rally was attended by high-profile figures, including close allies of United States President Donald Trump....

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The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have handed out student and staff ID cards at the University of Sana’a with a slogan saying, “Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory to Islam,” The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. Nadwa Dawsari, a specialist on conflict and tribes in...

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A recently passed bill by the Iranian parliament or Majlis, which was supposed to end the Islamic Republic’s support for terror financing, leaves huge loopholes, allowing the regime to continue funding terror groups such as Hezbollah, two experts assessed in an analysis Monday. Though reporting on the passage of the bill typically...

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In a press briefing on Wednesday, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq, Reuters reported. After identifying Iran as the “origin” of threats against Americans in Iraq, Pompeo explained, “Our intelligence in this regard is solid. We can see the hand...

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In a forty-minute speech addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed the presence of another undeclared Iranian nuclear site, and blasted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for hypocrisy, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. At the beginning of his speech, Netanyahu revealed that Iran had a second...

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United States President Donald Trump must be willing, for sanctions to effectively change Iran’s destabilizing behavior, to sanction the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), if it maintains connections with sanctioned Iranian banks in November, Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, argued...

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In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings, United States President Donald Trump endorsed both Israel’s right to self-defense, and a two-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian peace, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Though Trump had previously expressed skepticism towards a...

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In his keynote speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump urged the international community to isolate the Islamic Republic of Iran over its failure to comply with international law, The Times of Israel reported. In an ambitious address in front of the full assembly,...

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“For almost 40 years, the Iranian regime has existed outside the community of law-abiding nations,” United State Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said at the opening of this week’s UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East. “It is difficult to name a conflict in the Middle East...

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