With a lot of fanfare, Iran unveiled what it called an “indigenous” new fighter jet with “advanced avionics,” only to have observers note that the plane resembled the F-5, a plane designed by Northrop-Grumman in the 1950s, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Ofir Gendelman, Arabic language spokesman for Israeli...

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The United States Department of Justice announced the indictment of two men for spying on Jewish organizations and anti-regime activists, The Chicago Tribune reported Monday. In the indictment, Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were charged with acting as...

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the formation of a task force to coordinate the Trump administration’s response to Iran, CNN reported Thursday. In his statement Pompeo explained, “We are committed to a whole-of-government effort to change the Iranian regime’s behavior, and the Iran Action Group will ensure that the Department...

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A United Nations report found that although the threat of ISIS has diminished, as the terror group is transitioning from “a proto-State network to a covert network,” al Qaeda is newly resurgent with support from Iran, Fox News reported Wednesday. According to the report, though ISIS has largely been defeated...

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In a speech Monday that addressed Iran’s troubled economy and the 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that he would “prohibit” talks with the United States, The New York Times reported. In an apparent response to President Donald Trump’s tweet, “Iran, and it’s economy, is going very bad,...

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has cancelled his visit to Iran following the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States government on the Islamic Republic, Radio Free Europe reported Sunday. Abadi on August 7 said he did not agree with the renewed U.S. sanctions, but clarified that he would abide...

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In explaining why France remained unconvinced that Iran continues to present a terror threat to Europe, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a French security official said, “We can imagine an ultranationalist faction carrying out an operation to raise tensions.” The Journal report explained that given recent Iranian-directed terror attacks...

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British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been caught on tape saying that the BBC “has a bias towards saying that… Israel has a right to exist,” The Times of Israel reported Wednesday, as the party faces fresh allegations of anti-Semitism. Corbyn made the comments in 2011 in an interview with...

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A senior Syrian weapons engineer killed over the weekend when a bomb in his car exploded was killed in a targeted assassination by Israel’s security agency Mossad, The New York Times reported Tuesday, reinforcing accusations from Syria. Aziz Azbar, a leading Syrian chemical weapons and rocket scientist, was killed along...

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The United States on Monday re-imposed sanctions on Iran, three months after the Trump administration announced the country’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump signed an executive order, which targets financial transactions that involve U.S. dollars, Iran’s automotive sector, the purchase of commercial...

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