Fox News reported Wednesday that Iran is building a new military base, eight miles northwest of Damascus The new base is similar to one established by the Iranians near the town of al-Kiswah, 9 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of Damascus, which was reportedly hit by Israeli airstrikes last December. Defense Minister Avigdor...

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Despite “overwhelming evidence” presented in recent weeks by a United Nations panel of experts demonstrating that Iran has not prevented the transfer of arms to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Russia’s veto “protected the terrorist-sponsoring regime in Iran,” Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations said in a...

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What’s happening in Ghouta is a war crime. A blood orgy orchestrated by Bashar al-Assad, a modern-day Caligula figure, and his criminal patrons in Iran and Russia. More than 500 men, women and children have been killed since last week in the eastern enclave, where activists over the weekend reported...

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Two top Iranian officials pushed back against comments recently made by American National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster urging the world to stop funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which he said played “a central role” in Iran’s becoming the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, accusing the United States...

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Iran and the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad will continue attacks on Damascus suburbs held by “terrorists” the Iranian military chief of staff said on Sunday, Reuters reported. “We will adhere to the ceasefire resolution, Syria will also adhere. Parts of the suburbs of Damascus, which are held by the...

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This week, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi charged that the 2015 nuclear deal that his nation concluded with six major powers “has no benefit for us,” and threatened that Iran would leave the deal. Araqchi explained that Iran wasn’t enjoying the full benefits of the deal because banks were not...

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Iran could walk away from the 2015 nuclear deal if it doesn’t realize the economic benefits it was expecting from the deal, the nation’s deputy foreign minister told an audience in London, Reuters reported Thursday. Speaking at the Chatham House think tank, Abbas Araqhci said that banks were not doing...

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Missteps made by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on his visit to Lebanon last week have helped “in securing an Iranian realm on Israel’s border,” an expert in Lebanese affairs wrote in an analysis published Tuesday in Tablet magazine. Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies...

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Iran has rebuked Sweden for granting citizenship to a scientist it sentenced to death, in a process the United Nations has criticized as unfair, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. According to Iranian media reports, the foreign ministry summoned Swedish Ambassador Helena Sangeland to protest the granting of Swedish citizenship to Ahmadreza Djalali, an...

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National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster called on the international community to stop funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), saying that it was time to “cut off funding” to the group, which has played a “central role” in Iran’s becoming the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, during his remarks...

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