The U.S. sent Iran two previously unknown planeloads of cash, totaling $1.3 billion, in late January and early February, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night, causing lawmakers to worry that the cash will be used to finance terrorism and destabilize the Middle East. The administration had already admitted to...

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The State Department updated its travel warning to Iran on Monday, warning U.S. citizens that they can be “unjustly detained” if they travel to the Islamic Republic. The announcement, which replaced a travel warning issued on March 14, was meant “to reiterate and highlight the risk of arrest and detention of U.S. citizens, particularly...

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American officials did not allow Iran to take possession of a planeload of $400 million in European currencies until three American hostages were freed, raising concerns that the Obama administration paid a ransom for their release, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. According to U.S. official who were familiar with the sequence...

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As President Barack Obama’s term in office comes to an end, a number of allies are expressing concern that he will publicly pledge that the United States would never be first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict, Josh Rogin of The Washington Post reported Sunday. Japan, South Korea, France,...

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A video released last week of a man convicted of smuggling military equipment to Iran has shed new light on the activities of the Iranian national and six Iranian-Americans who were released by the U.S. as part of a deal to free several of its citizens from Iranian captivity, ABC News reported on Friday....

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Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor is being consider by the United States Army to defend deployed troops, Defense News reported Tuesday. Iron Dome was primarily produced by the Israeli defense giant Rafael, but many of its component systems were provided by the American defense contractor Raytheon. That company has now built...

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Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Barack Obama telling him to “quickly fix” a Supreme Court ruling allowing terror victims to collect $2 billion from frozen Iranian assets, the Associated Press reported Monday. The Supreme Court ruled 6 – 2 in April that 1,300 American victims of Iranian terror...

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Americans being freed from Iranian captivity were not allowed to leave the Islamic Republic until “another plane” had arrived, one of the hostages said in an interview on Thursday, lending credence to the perception that the U.S.’s $400 million cash payment to Iran at the same time as the hostage transfer...

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Senior officials at the Department of Justice (DoJ) were overruled after they objected to the Obama administration’s plan to send $400 million in cash to Iran at the same time that American hostages were released, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. “People knew what it was going to...

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The U.S. Marine Corps and elite Israeli naval commandos held a joint military exercise to showcase and practice techniques used in the fight against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The exercise, called “Noble Shirley,” took place in Israel’s Negev desert last week and...

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