In order to free up money that Iran had in an Omani bank, the Obama administration sought to give Iran access to dollars — something it said it wouldn’t to — in February 2016, shortly after the terms of the nuclear deal were implemented, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Iran...

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The files documenting Iran’s nuclear research, which were publicized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of April, show that Iran’s declarations of its past nuclear weapons work to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were “comical,” a senior Israeli intelligence official, who is analyzing the files, told The...

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The United States warned governments and the private sector on Tuesday not to engage in Iranian efforts to exploit them to fund its nuclear ambitions, global terrorism, destabilizing actions in the Middle East, and human rights abuses at home. Speaking at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank in...

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After talks of an agreement between Russia and Israel that would allow Syrian regime forces to re-take Iranian-held territory in southwestern Syria, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, argued in an op-ed published in The Algemeiner Tuesday that this arrangement “must be the beginning of the...

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The intelligence agency of the German state of Baden-Württemberg found that Iran is still trying to obtain technology for weapons of mass destruction and to advance its ballistic missile program, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday in The Jerusalem Post. The report, which was reviewed by the Post, stated that “Iran continued...

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At a press conference following a 90-minute meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany “will exert our influence in such a way that Iran is pushed out of this region,” The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Though the two leaders still differ on the...

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An Argentine federal appeals court ruled that Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered as a “direct consequence” of his accusations of former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the AMIA terror attack, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. Nisman was investigating the ties between Tehran and the...

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Leading Russian and Indian oil companies will cut links with the Islamic Republic of Iran amid threats of United States sanctions following the withdrawal from the JCPOA, as the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran is known, Radio Free Europe reported Thursday. Lukoil, Russia’s second biggest oil producer, announced on Tuesday...

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The Teamsters, one of the largest labor unions in the United States and the world, expressed solidarity with Iranian truckers, currently striking against the government. In a letter faxed on Wednesday to Abolfazl Mehrabadi, the deputy director of the Iranian interests section, located in the Pakistani Embassy, the General President...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday said all non-Syrian forces should withdraw from southwestern Syria as soon as possible, echoing his calls from earlier this week in an attempt to cool tensions between Israel and Iran. The Times of Israel reported that Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is scheduled to...

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