Yemen’s Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels fired a barrage of seven ballistic missiles targeting Saudi Arabia late Sunday on the third anniversary of the war in Yemen, with fragments of one missile over Riyadh killing one person and wounding two, The Times of Israel reported. Saudi air defense destroyed three of...

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The United States Department of Justice announced indictments of nine Iranians for their participation in a “massive and brazen cyber-assault” on over 100 American academic institutions and several government agencies, Politico reported Friday. The Iranian hackers were affiliated with the Mabna Institute, which, according to DOJ, was established in 2013...

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Germany has rejected a key United States demand to designate the Lebanon-based Shiite militia Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety as part of talks to rein in the nuclear program in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported for Fox News on Tuesday. Two sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations between...

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A Lebanese Shiite cleric has called for Lebanon to revoke Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s citizenship over his “clear collaboration” and ties to Iran, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini, who previously came out strongly against Iran’s influence in Lebanon and has also sought to spread messages of...

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An Iranian official claims that proposed European sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program would “be making a big mistake” and suggested that they would be violating the nuclear deal, Reuters reported on Saturday. “In case some European countries are following steps to put non-nuclear sanctions against Iran in...

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In a preview of an interview that will air in its entirety on “60 Minutes” this coming Sunday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told correspondent Norah O’Donnell that if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia would “follow suit as soon as possible.” The preview was broadcast...

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If President Donald Trump follows through on his intent to either fix the weaknesses in the nuclear deal or withdraw from the accord, it would mean that “Mr. Trump will be better positioned to make it clear to Pyongyang that he means business,” two sanctions experts wrote in an op-ed published...

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Due to “poor policy choices” in the Middle East, “Iran is winning,” meaning that the United States needs a “clear and coherent strategy to push back” a leading foreign policy voice in the United States Senate wrote Monday in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. Describing his recent trip to...

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The BBC will appeal to the United Nations in Geneva to protect its staff and their families in Iran as authorities in the Islamic Republic escalate “years of persecution and harassment,” Agence France-Presse reported Monday. BBC Director-General, Tony Hall, said in a statement on Monday that journalists will describe in...

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Israel is not at the center of the bloodshed in the Middle East; instead, the Islamic Republic of Iran connects many of the region’s “trouble spots,” TIP CEO and President, Joshua S. Block, argued in an op-ed published in The Jerusalem Post on Monday. “Of all the policy myths that...

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