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05/07/2021
State Dept describes Vienna talks as 'serious and constructive,' says nuclear accord is 'a deal that worked'
If the Vienna talks on the US rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran yield no results, Washington is read "to do whatever needed to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons," a senior State Department official told...
05/07/2021
Iran's supreme leader declares that fighting Israel is a 'collective responsibility'
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei branded Israel a "terrorist camp" in his speech on the Quds Day.
In his speech, as cited by Iran's state media, Khamenei proclaimed that the Jewish state "usurped Palestine" to convert the area into a...
05/06/2021
The Biden administration is considering granting Iran significant economic sanctions relief, according to U.S. and Iranian officials, confirming that Iran is making headway in its demand that America unwind many of its most crippling measures.
Negotiations with Iran in Vienna are centered around the scope and scale of sanctions...
05/05/2021
Jerusalem, the city of peace, has been the most treasured city of the Jewish people for centuries. However, until 1967, Jews had been barred from entering the city and visiting their holiest sites. When Israel miraculously won the Six Day War, Jerusalem was captured and reunited under Israel’s sovereignty. Since then, people of all...
05/05/2021
In recent days, conflicting reports have emerged over the ongoing negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, leading to questions over to what extent the United States will undo Trump-era sanctions against Tehran.
Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, as well as an expert on...
05/05/2021
19-year-old Yehuda Guetta died after succumbing to his injuries sustained in a drive-by terror attack Sunday
A student critically injured in a drive-by terror attack carried out earlier this week in the West Bank has died of his wounds.
A spokesperson at Rabin Medical Center said Wednesday evening that 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta...
05/05/2021
Reported strike follows attack on previous night that allegedly left 1 dead, 6 wounded
Israel carried out an airstrike on Hezbollah posts early Thursday in Syria's Quneitra, near the Israeli Golan Heights, according to Syrian media agencies.
The Israeli air force allegedly struck targets with helicopters. Syrian state TV SANA...
05/06/2021
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj.-Gen. Hossein Salami said that Israel “security” has been eroded, and its safety “bubble” burst in the last few months in a wide-ranging television interview.
He bragged at length about how the “Zionist regime” is supposedly in the midst of security, political and social...
05/04/2021
Israeli aircraft reportedly carried out airstrikes in northern Syria early Wednesday, Syrian state media said, killing one person and wounding six, in the first alleged attacks since raids last month that saw an errant Syrian anti-aircraft missile explode in the Negev desert.
Syrian state media SANA reported that Syrian air...
05/05/2021
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounced Israel as "the enemy" of the Middle East in comments leading up to World Al Quds Day, which Iran inaugurated after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to protest the existence of the Jewish state.
"The Zionists are the enemies of the region and of the security of the Palestinian people. They are the...
05/05/2021
A damning new report authored by the Netherlands' General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) asserts that the Islamic Republic of Iran attempted to obtain technology in 2020 for weapons of mass destruction.
The Dutch intelligence document, which was published in April, says the security service "investigated networks that...
05/05/2021
According to Swedish, German, and Dutch reports, Iran is still pursuing nuclear weapons. This comes as the Biden administration and many NATO allies are intent on restarting the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as it is formally called.
Former President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in...
05/05/2021
President, crown prince also discussed Afghanistan, Iran, Tigray conflict according to readout
US President Joe Biden discussed the strategic importance of the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israelin a phone call Tuesday with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the...
05/04/2021
On Tuesday two rockets landed at Ain Al-Asad air base in western Iraq. On Monday three to six rockets fell near Balad Air Base in Iraq according to various reports. The base houses US contractors and has been targeted numerous times in the past by pro-Iranian militias targeting Americans.
This appears to be the third attack in...
05/04/2021
Cohen told Biden that it would be a mistake for the US to return to the deal without making improvements first
US President Joe Biden reportedly told the Mossad chief Yossi Cohen that the US far from returning to the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a report on Sunday from Walla News, which cited a senior Israeli official....
05/04/2021
Hamas diaspora director Khaled Mashaal said in a recent interview that those who normalize relations with Israel are “worthless scum” and are no longer considered part of the Islamic nation.
In the interview, which aired on Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV on April 26, Mashal said Hamas no longer looks to those nations that normalize relations...
05/04/2021
Cohen told Biden that it would be a mistake for the US to return to the deal without making improvements first
US President Joe Biden reportedly told the Mossad chief Yossi Cohen that the US far from returning to the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a report on Sunday from Walla News, which cited a senior Israeli official....
05/04/2021
Iran has announced it may execute Vahid Afkari, the brother of champion wrestler Navid Afkari, who was the victim of an extrajudicial killing by Iran’s judiciary for his protesting against Iranian regime corruption.
The founder of the United for Navid campaign, Masih Alinejad, on Saturday tweeted: “After executing the innocent...
05/03/2021
The Islamic Republic of Iran made multiple attempts in 2020 to obtain technology for its weapons of mass destruction program and has not stopped its drive to develop atomic weapons, intelligence agencies from the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany recently reported.
The Netherland’s General Intelligence and Security Service "investigated...
05/03/2021
It is the second attack targeting US interests in under 24 hours
Three rockets were fired Monday evening towards Iraq's Balad airbase north of Baghdad, a security source told AFP, but without causing US casualties or damage, the Pentagon said, citing initial reports.
The rockets fell in an area where US company Sallyport -- the...
