India’s oil ministry has told its refiners to prepare for a “drastic reduction or zero imports” of Iranian oil, Reuters reported Thursday. The decision for India to reduce, or even eliminate its oil imports from Iran, is due to American pressure. Though India has said that it would only abide...

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The new U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, said Germany must close its airspace and deny landing rights to Iran’s Mahan Air because of the airline’s material support for terrorism, Ben Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. In a meeting last week with a senior delegation from the American...

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other NGOs banded together to block initiatives launched by the United States to reform the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), The New York Times reported Wednesday. The report surfaced following a critical letter United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley wrote to...

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A day after receiving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan’s King Abdullah met with President Donald Trump’s chief Middle East negotiators, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Tuesday. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, and Jason Greenblatt, the administration’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, discussed “increasing cooperation between...

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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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“Any discussion of an end to Iran’s power grab in Iraq would be premature — speculative at best, and potentially dangerous,” TIP CEO and President, Joshua S. Block, warned in an op-ed for The Hill published on Friday. Block argued that “Iraq would be a good place to start to...

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The move of the United States embassy to a Jerusalem complex, most of which is “is located on the far side of the armistice line” that divided the city between 1949 and 1967, shows that the United States accepts Israel contention that its capital city should be undivided, Eugene Kontorovich...

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Continuing a process that he began last October when he said that he would no longer certify the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States would withdraw from the deal. In a short statement Trump laid...

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Politicians and diplomats representing the United States, European Union, United Nations, and Israel have condemned recent remarks made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday at the first meeting of the Palestinian National Council in more than twenty years, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. In the course of a speech...

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United States intelligence agencies are alarmed by a series of cargo flights from Iran to Syria that they believe could be transporting weapons systems that could threaten Israel, CNN reported Wednesday. While CNN noted that flights between Iran and Syria are not uncommon, the flights concerning U.S. intelligence occurred in...

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