In his opening statement at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on Palestinian incitement on Thursday, ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) put the onus for the recent escalation of violence in Israel on the Palestinian Authority, saying that “the Palestinians will never get their state on the...

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Among the hacked emails of CIA director John Brennan to be posted this week by WikiLeaks was a memo written after the 2008 election urging President-elect Barack Obama to “come to terms with” whoever was ruling Iran, Business Insider reported Wednesday. In a post-election memo, purportedly written to Obama, Brennan laid...

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Eleven Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.), sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of State John Kerry expressing their concern over Iran’s recent test launch of a ballistic missile. We are writing to express our profound concern about Iran’s...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has conditioned acceptance of the nuclear deal on Iran being exempted from consequences of its ongoing support for international terrorism, human rights abuses, and nuclear cheating, CNN reported today. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s official website carries a letter from the Supreme Leader to Iranian President...

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The decision to travel to Israel for his first foreign visit as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reflects the “important relationship” between the United States and Israel, General James Dunford said Sunday in Jerusalem. “I’ve been in my job for two weeks, this is the first country I’m visiting on my first...

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The government of Iran spent months brushing off inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency tasked with investigating Iran’s past nuclear work, and only began fully cooperating with them this week, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. Iran’s behavior changed when “the IAEA and some Western governments directly warned Tehran that it must increase...

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The United States will send surveillance drones and up to 300 troops to Cameroon to assist the West African nation’s fight against the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. The U.S. deployed 90 military personnel to Cameroon and plans to send surveillance drones to amass intelligence...

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NASA and the Israel Space Agency (ISA) signed a cooperation agreement during this year’s International Astronautical Congress, which is being held in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported today. The deal was signed by NASA administrator Charles Bolden and ISA director Menachem Kidron on the sidelines of the International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem....

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The Washington Post‘s correspondent in Tehran, who was arrested by Iranian authorities more than a year ago and was held for nine months without charge, has been convicted in an espionage trial. Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American journalist, had been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for longer than the 444 days of the Iran...

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Some U.S. government officials have privately acknowledged that a key provision of the nuclear deal with Iran violates existing federal law, James Rosen of Fox News reported today. At issue is a passage tucked away in ancillary paperwork attached to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, as the...

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