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Balance of power moves in Iran’s favor in Gulf, Jordan, as America pulls back...

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U.S. President Joe Biden met with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Monday amid concerns that Iran is gaining strategic ground in the Gulf area and Jordan as the United States pulls back from the region. “You’ve...
Friends and family look at pictures of Eitam and Na'ama Henkin, an Israeli couple shot and killed in Itamar, at their shiva in Jerusalem on Oct. 7, 2015. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

US court finds Iranian banks liable for deadly terror attack against US citizens

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A U.S. federal court found the Iranian banks—Merkazi, Melli and Saderat—liable for the murder carried out by Hamas against U.S. citizens Eitam Henkin and his wife Na’ama in 2015. Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner and...
Missiles of the armed forces of Iran, Sept. 9, 2019. Credit: Saeediex/Shutterstock.

Months after UN lifted arms embargo on Iran, ‘dam hasn’t burst’ yet

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Nine months after the U.N. arms embargo on Iran has expired, there has not been a major new trend of sales of international arms to the Islamic Republic so far. Yet a potential danger remains...
Yaqoob Abo Alqean, a well-known Arab-Israeli businessman from the Bedouin sector. Source: Facebook

Arab-Israeli real estate mogul charged with giving information to Iran

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Yaqoob Abo Alqean, an Arab-Israeli millionaire, was charged on Monday with contacting a foreign agent for Iran and passing information to the enemy. According to the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, Alqean was arrested...
Fighters in the Yemeni city of Taizak. Credit: Ramalrasny/Shutterstock.

Iran views Houthi attacks as ‘experiment lab’ for its weapons and doctrines

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Iran views ongoing attacks by its radical ally in Yemen, the Houthis, on Saudi Arabia and others in the area as an important “experimentation lab” to test out new kinds of weapons and combat...
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the phone with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 12, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

Latest attacks between US and Iran-backed militias overshadow ongoing nuclear talks

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Iran’s continued provocations through its terror proxies and with its nuclear program appear to be frustrating efforts by the Biden administration’s efforts revive the Iranian nuclear deal. On Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...
U.S. Chief of Protocol Cam Henderson assists U.S. President Donald Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the documents during the signing of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 15, 2020. Credit: Andrea Hanks/White House.

A Central Asia model for Israel and the Middle East

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As the Abraham Accords set in and the ties between moderate Arab states and Israel strengthen, more formalized relationships that tackle crucial regional issues—the Iranian threat, anti-terrorism efforts, and economic development, including desalinization and...
Iranian Ambassador to the U.N. Majid Takht Ravanchi. Credit: Masoud Shahrestani via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran demands lifting of sanctions, US commitment not to exit nuclear deal

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Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday that his country would return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal on the conditions that all sanctions be lifted and that...
Former Iranian intelligence minister Ali Younesi. Credit: Tehran Times.

Former Iranian intelligence minister: ‘Mossad has penetrated the regime’

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Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has infiltrated Iran’s leadership, and many senior officials in the Islamic Republic are compromised, a former Iranian intelligence minister said on Tuesday. “The leaders of the country don’t show any interest...
Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations. Source: Screenshot.

Former ambassador Gold: World powers must also work to prevent Iran’s quest for hegemony

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“Iran will never get a nuclear weapon on my watch.” At least this is what U.S. President Joe Biden told Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during his visit to the White House on Monday. Biden also...