Iran is using the expected financial windfall it will receive from the nuclear deal to increase its funding of the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas, Avi Issacharoff reported in The Times of Israel today. Since the deal was signed, Iran has significantly increased its financial support for two of the largest terror groups...

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Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said that Tehran will continue arming Hezbollah, Hamas, and “any group of the resistance to the U.S. and Israel,” and explained that the Islamic Republic still considered America to be the “Great Satan,” in an interview translated and transcribed by the Middle East Media Research...

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Iranian dissidents abroad who are falling victim to sophisticated cyber-attacks are likely being targeted by Iranian hackers who seek “to steal their email communications and contacts,” according to a report released this week by Canadian researchers, Voice of America reported yesterday. The report, titled “London Calling,” details a multi-layered, real-time...

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A federal appeals court ruled that victims of Iran-backed terror may sue Bank Melli, a commercial bank owned by the Iranian regime, for $17.6 million in damages, the San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday. Although foreign nations normally can’t be sued in U.S. courts, their immunity does not cover harm caused...

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A recently released propaganda video by Hamas unveils the Islamist terrorist group’s newly rebuilt tunnel infrastructure and showcases its extensive investments in military training and weapons, Ynet reported today. The video shows terrorists brandishing new weapons while practicing combat and ambush techniques against simulated Israeli “targets” at sophisticated training facilities. At one...

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Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s parliament speaker, blasted British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and said that “Israel should be annihilated,” Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported today. “Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate...

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Hamas fired rockets at Israel from residential areas in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge last year in an attempt to provoke IDF retaliatory strikes and cause civilian casualties, Wojciech Cegielski, a reporter for Polish Radio, wrote in an op-ed published by Ha’aretz today. Cegielski worked in Gaza for a month last...

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A federal judge in Manhattan, George B. Daniels, ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) to post a $10 million bond and pay $1 million more per month as it appeals a verdict that found it liable for a series of terrorist attacks in Israel that killed 33 people and injured over...

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A sixth Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D – Pa.) from the Philadelphia area, announced his opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in an op-ed published Sunday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Citing his experience as a member of the committee and its...

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Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, told the Hamas-affiliated newspaper al-Resalah that Tehran “reject[s] the existence of any Israeli on this earth,” a position he says Iran relayed to the P5+1 powers during the nuclear negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. According to Sheikholeslam, Iran...

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