A United States cybersecurity firm has identified a “highly active” group of hackers reportedly based in Iran, who are attacking corporate and government networks across the Middle East, The Hill reported Wednesday. A report issued by Symantec said that the hacking collective, which has been dubbed “Leafminer,” has attacked networks...

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Responding to a tweet earlier this week, in which United States President Donald Trump warned Iran not to threaten the U.S., Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani threatened that in a war with Iran the U.S. would suffer an “annihilation of all your means,” Iran’s semi-official PressTV...

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In the wake of the attempted terror attack in Paris last month, Europe must take decisive action against Iran, or risk again being the target of terrorist attacks plotted by the Islamic Republic, two experts argued in an analysis published Wednesday at Real Clear Defense. Benjamin Weinthal, a fellow at...

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Iran is suffering from “a long-term economic tailspin” because its rulers made a “decision to prioritize an ideological agenda over the welfare of the Iranian people,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech on Sunday mapping out the Trump administration’s policy towards Iran. The Secretary of State began by mapping...

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This week is the twenty-fourth anniversary of the bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, one of the worst terrorist acts against Jews since World War II. On the morning of July 18, 1994, Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a Lebanese citizen, drove a Renault Trafic...

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At least 44 Iranians have been arrested in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas for “damaging public virtue” by publicizing their businesses on Instagram, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Citing an account in Iran’s official IRNA news agency, the AP reported that eight women and 36 others in photography, beauty,...

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An attack on a Syrian military airbase, which was run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Sunday was described as a “strong message” to Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. A source familiar with the incident told the Post that the airstrike sent a “strong message” to Iran...

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Information contained in the Iranian nuclear archives extracted by Israel in a daring January raid contain more detailed information about the extent of Iran’s nuclear weapons program including specifics “about which international inspectors were unaware,” The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The Journal report was based on a briefing given...

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In a newly released report, the German intelligence agency in the state of Hesse singled out Iran as one of two states seeking to obtain weapons of mass destructions as the ultimate form of power. Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the report lists types of...

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Last week, former United States State Department official and Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller tweeted, “Given what’s happening in Syria, I often wonder (and worry) what would have happened had we succeeded in the 1990s in our efforts to broker an Israeli -Syrian agreement on Golan.” Miller was...

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