By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move underground, which can protect the plant from aerial attacks
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tehran has also been enriching uranium up to a 4.5 percent purity, higher than the 3.67 percent allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The platform said a network used fake accounts to develop fictitious personas who purported to be based in Israel and Iraq.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi says he doesn’t think Tehran has a “significant quantity” of uranium “to indicate amounts which could be theoretically used for the development of a nuclear weapon.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The few remaining buyers of Iranian crude oil should know that they are helping to fund Iran’s malign activity across the Middle East,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Russia has a presence in Syria and has significant sway on the development in the country. The IDF and the Russian army maintain a line of communications through which they coordinate their actions to prevent a clash between the two militaries.
The expiration of the embargo comes after United States enacted U.N. snapback sanctions on the regime in August, a move that included extending it indefinitely.
The Trump administration effectively cut off the regime from the worldwide fiscal system with an exception for humanitarian purposes.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This judgment is the first step in the pursuit of justice for Robert Levinson, an American patriot, who was kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable suffering for more than 13 years,” said his family.
The population of Bahrain is 60 percent Shiite while the royal house is Sunni.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Having Chinese tanks, or Chinese air-defense systems or defensive missile systems in Iran in the first instance threatens the people of Iran, in the second instance, threatens the people of the Middle East, and the next people who come under threat are the people who live in Europe,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move comes as the U.N. arms embargo on the regime is set to be extended indefinitely.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“You can’t allow Iran to have more money, power and arms, and at the same time try to disconnect Hezbollah from the disasters it provoked in Lebanon,” says the U.S. secretary of state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned six companies based in Iran, the United Arab Emirates and China for allegedly supporting Triliance’s continued involvement in the sale of Iranian petrochemical products.
By Israel Hayom
“The attack intended to weaken missile production in Syria, probably for Hezbollah, by harming its crucial elements,” says ImageSat International.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new hall would replace a production hall that experienced a fire in July in what Iran has alleged was sabotage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Syrian air defenses were deployed in response to the attack.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ashkenazi called on Germany to “join and support the joint global effort against the Iranian threat and the restoration of the arms embargo on Iran.”
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Iran has more than three tons of uranium enriched to four percent, and at least 1,000 tons of yellowcake.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The warning by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came one day after the United States initiated the mechanism for the U.N. Security Council to snapback sanctions on Iran.
"I opposed the deal because it was based on a fundamental lie: that somehow Iran had given up on its quest for nuclear weapons."
The sanctions come despite the historic U.S.-brokered agreement last week to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We’ll be doing a snapback. You’ll be watching it next week,” says the U.S. president.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The administration hopes the seizures will deter shipping companies from dealing with Iran and Venezuela.
Iran's military forces are spread out over 125 locations in Syria, including on the border with Israel.
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, said Elliott Abrams “will have little time to settle in,” citing the upcoming deadline to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There were no casualties ... firefighters are trying to contain the fire,” stated Iranian TV • Investigation is underway.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Within Hezbollah they are calling for revenge against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A missile depot and other weapons warehouses were also destroyed, reported Syrian media.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
One terrorist said that he drew inspiration for planning and carrying out the attacks from the August 2019 PFLP attack on Ein Danny, in which 17-year-old Rina Shnerb was murdered and her father and brother were injured.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Iranian judiciary said that the man gave the U.S. and Israel information on the movements of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, killed in January by an American drone.
A new report is calling on the U.S. to designate three Iranian organizations as terror groups.
By Israel Hayom
Maj. Gen. Esmail Ghaani warns “major events” are about to befall Israel and the U.S., hints USS Bonhomme Richard fire was Iranian retaliation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iran's judiciary said that Asgari sold data related to Iran’s missile program to the U.S. intelligence agency.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia, China, Iran and Turkey are “key players in espionage and influence directed against Germany,” according to a report.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Iranians are in dilemma: they do not want to escalate the situation before the US election in November, but they do want to retaliate,.
As of Tuesday morning, Iranian authorities and state media have not commented on the incident.
"The underground facility that was damaged in Natanz is at the heart of the debate on Iranian violations of the nuclear agreement."
The Hemmat Missile factory is part of Iran's precision missile program, with annexes in Syria and Lebanon. for Hezbollah's missile program.
Iran's cybersecurity chief threatened Israel, if they discover that Israel was behind the explosion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Iranian regime and its proxies continued to plot and commit terrorist attacks on a global scale,” states the report’s foreword.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It apparently would assist in combating pirates and foreign vessels, and could be finished by March 2021.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog called on Iran to “fully cooperate” with it in implementing its Weapons Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol and “satisfy the IAEA’s requests without further delay.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media is expected to make sweeping changes at VOA, which has been plagued by allegations of corruption, mismanagement, liberal bias and other issues.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ahead of IAEA meeting, Tehran says relations with the U.N. nuclear agency will “become difficult” if it continues to pursue “anti-Iranian claims” founded upon documents provided by Israel.
Israel has remained silent on the reports.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspect, identified as Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, is accused of relaying to Israel and the U.S. information regarding slain IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iranian-backed militias brought in reinforcements to the position three days ago, says UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul Rahman, said “Israel was likely responsible.”
More than 1.5 million Arabic speakers from 22 Arab countries also follow Israel in Arabic on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Iran does not recognize Israel and regularly calls for its destruction.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Former Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett urges his successor Benny Gantz to keep up the pressure on Tehran, saying that the goal of pushing the country out of Syria is “in reach.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Mahan Air has allegedly been operating charter flights to Venezuela for Iranian technicians and technical equipment, using materials sourced from China.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Fees were charged to circumvent “American sanctions,” with the result of millions of dollars of foreign currency coming into Iran.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iran’s Mahan Air continued to operate flights to multiple Middle Eastern countries until late March despite coronavirus lockdowns, probe shows.
By Israel Hayom
IDF sources in Tel Aviv believe that the Islamic Republic’s presence in Syria has grown too costly for the Assad regime.
Campaigns that seek to manipulate public debate on social media originated in Iran and focused on a wide range of countries including Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt, Ghana, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, the US, UK and Zimbabwe.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The embargo expires on Oct. 18, along with U.N. travel restrictions on Iranians associated with arms proliferation—the latter of which the letter also calls to be extended.
Syria stated media claimed that the explosions were the result of a “human error” caused by troops moving ammunition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tehran and Caracas have been working together in attempting to evade U.S. sanctions against both countries.
The spy met with his handlers in Denmark, Paris and Budapest.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Iranian regime has a long history of promoting anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and has hosted several international cartoon contests promoting these themes.
Satellite images reportedly showing the digging of mass graves in Iran.
Iran's official Coronavirus death toll is over 725, with some 14,000 people having tested positive. Unofficially...
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
Missile barrage on military base north of Baghdad wounds 12, Iranian proxy group believed to be responsible.
The Hezbollah terror chief reportedly met with a high-level Iranian delegation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Iran has spent nearly one billion dollars a year to support terrorist groups that serve as its proxies and expand its malign influence across the globe.
IDF Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman said the new branch will “concentrate on the design and planning of the campaign against Iran.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If the Democratic senators had the meeting, said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy, not their own.”
The terror chief was speaking at an event honoring Hezbollah “martyrs” as well as Iranian allies killed by Israel and the United States.
By Ariel Kahana
Israel is now targeting not only Iran’s proxy forces but also the regime itself, via “economic, diplomatic and intelligence measures, as well as with military means,” says Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.
For good measure, Netanyahu threw in, "they also fail to deliver weapons to Syria and Lebanon because we operate there all the time."
“I don’t see any reason why residents of Beirut can go on sipping coffee in coffee shops while we are being bombarded by rockets.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Google took down Gmail and Google ad accounts tied to “American Herald Tribune” • Twitter removed the site’s account.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli Ambassador to UN in Farsi: We Support the Iranian People
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Hamzeh says nuclear weapons would protect Iran from threats, calls production of long-range missiles “our natural right.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"As previously stated, while no US service members were killed . . . several were treated for concussion symptoms from the blast."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This case illustrates Iran’s targeting of Americans in the United States in order to silence those who oppose the Iranian regime or otherwise further its goals,” said U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers.
The Iranian regime has been blocking the internet to limit and suppress the protests against the regime.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Iranians took to the street on Saturday night and protested the country’s downing of Ukraine’s flight 752 early Wednesday which killed all passengers and crew, and called for the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details of Solemani's location.
Specific details of the conversation were not released...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"Whoever tries to attack us will receive a crushing blow in return. We stand steadfast against those who seek our lives."
A source said Haniyeh sent a back channel message to Israel that Hamas does not seek an escalation and will not attack Israel as part of the Iranian revenge.
Netanyahu ordered all ministers in the Israeli government not to say anything about the American strike.
The popular winter tourist site was closed today following the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Although the move doesn’t violate the 2015 nuclear deal, it is one step closer towards the regime’s goal of acquiring a nuclear bomb.
By Noa Amouyal
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, the lawmakers, led by Reps. Ilhan Omar, Raúl M. Grijalva and Barbara Lee, urge the administration to “conduct a sweeping review” of the sanctions campaign.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to Israeli firm ImageSat International, the tunnel could serve as secure storage for advanced weapons or other sensitive material.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The network was allegedly smuggling lethal aid from Iran to Yemen on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s Quds Force.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The assistance authorizes cooperation with Israel on counter-tunnel and counter-aerial capabilities, and $500 million for developing and procuring the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow weapon systems.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The liquid-fueled Shahab-3 can reportedly deliver a nuclear weapon and has been referred to by Iranian officials as one of the country’s “Israel-hitting” missiles.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We have so far not received an entirely satisfactory reply” from Iran regarding uranium traces found at an undeclared site, says IAEA head Rafael Grossi.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
“Iran has prepared itself ... 21 U.S. bases are in our sights. If Israel dared to make any mistake, we would raze Haifa and Tel Aviv to the ground.”
The White House said the two leaders discussed “the threat from Iran, as well as other critical bilateral and regional issues."
Watch Syrian missile after missile simple turn over and hit the ground.
Following the attack, there are no special alerts for Golan Heights residents this morning.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Iran announced that the country will start production of 5% enriched uranium at the Fordo plant on Wednesday.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
These Pages and Groups were shut down based on their behavior, not the content they posted. In each of these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for Facebook’s action.