Sunday morning, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile commander and sixteen other IRGC officials were killed in an explosion at a base southwest of Teheran. Iranian officials called the explosion an accident during the transport of munitions, but there are a number of reasons to believe it was not. Firstly, the commander killed...
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Tags: Egypt, Hamas, Hezbollah, Intelligence, Iran, Islamism, Israel, Latin America, Muslim Brotherhood, Nuclear Weapons, Saudi Arabia, Stealth Jihad
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Summary: Over the past year, events in the Middle East, including most notably the Arab Spring, have dramatically altered the security landscape facing the nation of Israel, as well as the national security interests of the United States in the region. While each of these events have been well cataloged separately and in greater...
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Tags: Al Qaeda, Defensible Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Hezbollah, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Latin America, Lebanon, Muslim Brotherhood, Nuclear Weapons, Syria, Terrorism
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It appears that the United States foreign policy community has now successfully moved through all five-stages of grief, when it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear weapons ambitions. First was Denial, of which the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was the best example, proclaiming that Iran “halted its nuclear weapons...
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Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Latin America, Nuclear Weapons, U.S Policy
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The Palestinians’ problems at times seem insurmountable. Their justice system is in shambles. Extrajudicial killings are common. A terrorist group, Hamas, rival to the ruling Fatah party, delivers most social services. The Palestinians were promised peace, but their leaders have yet to deliver. Palestinian society remains largely dependent on foreign aid. One would think...
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Tags: Fatah, Israel, Latin America, U.S Policy
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Caroline Glick today writes about Iran and the threat it poses, to the United States, right here in the Western hemisphere. It’s a longish article, but this portion particularly caught my eye: Were the administration able to understand the basic fact that some countries simply cannot abide by America, it would realize that the...
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Tags: Hezbollah, Iran, Latin America
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Concern over the potential threat of Islamic terrorism operating from South and Central America to strike the United States is not new. As early as 1992, Iranian proxy Hezbollah utilized the lawless enclave known as the Tri-border Area (TBA) which conjoins Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay to strike Jewish and Israeli targets in Argentina ....
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Tags: Hezbollah, Latin America, Terror Finance, Terrorism
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