A United Nations report has accused the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of carrying out a campaign of “extermination” against jailed opponents, among many other crimes against humanity. Although the report documented abuses on all sides of the Syrian civil war, it was particularly thorough in cataloging the ring of prisons run by the Iran-backed...
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Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren criticized United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday for “legitimizing murder” with his comments on Palestinian terrorism. Oren, currently a member of Knesset, took issue with Ban’s statement on Tuesday referring to terrorism as a reaction to occupation that is embedded...
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A United Nations panel found that Iran’s ballistic missile test in October violated a UN Security Council resolution prohibiting it from developing ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads, Reuters reported on Tuesday. “On the basis of its analysis and findings the Panel concludes that Emad launch is a violation...
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Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile last month, once again violating United Nations Security Council resolutions that limit its development of missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads, Fox News reported on Monday. Western intelligence says the test was held Nov. 21 near Chabahar, a port city in southeast Iran’s Balochistan...
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A delegation of about 70 Israelis arrived in Paris on Monday for the start of the 11-day United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), where UN member countries will be encouraged to sign a binding agreement to keep global warming below an increase of two degrees Celsius over the...
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The State Department acknowledged that the nuclear deal with Iran is not a binding agreement, but rather a set of “political commitments,” the National Review reported Wednesday. The admission was made in response to an inquiry from Rep. Mike Pompeo (R – Kan.). “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is...
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The Obama administration has curtailed its demands for the immediate removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and has allowed Iran to join diplomatic talks on Syria’s civil war, signaling that the Islamic Republic may continue “wielding influence over Syria” and arming terrorist groups unabated, the Associated Press reported on Thursday....
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Ahmed Shaheed and David Kaye, respectively the UN’s Special Rapporteurs for the human rights situation in Iran and for the right to freedom of opinion and expression, called on Iran to stop intimidating journalists “as the country prepares for parliamentary elections early next year,” in a statement released Wednesday. The statement...
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Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations investigator of human rights in Iran, called the high rate of executions he monitors an “unprecedented assault on the right to life in Iran,” The New York Times reported Wednesday. His most striking criticism dwelled on what rights advocates have called Iran’s increasing rate of...
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The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the scandal-ridden UN body that works with Palestinian refugees, spoke Monday at an event sponsored by the UK-based charity Interpal, which was designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing the Palestinian terror group Hamas. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness spoke at an event for...
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