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Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, on Sunday called for a boycott of American goods to protest President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.

A group of Iraqi women joined ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Thursday — a daring exercise given both cultural stigmas against women participating in politics and the proclivity of Iran-backed Shiite militia thugs and Iraqi government security forces for murdering demonstrators.

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Iran-backed Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, lamented on Iranian television on Thursday that he could not trade his life for that of Major General Qasem Soleimani, eliminated in a U.S. airstrike in January.

The USS Normandy, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, intercepted a small sailing vessel in the Arabian Sea over the weekend and found it loaded with Iranian weapons bound for the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The weapons included 150 anti-tank missiles and three surface-to-air missiles, plus a supply of components useful for maintaining unmanned aerial vehicles.

A U.S. federal indictment unsealed on Thursday charged Chinese telecom giant Huawei and four of its subsidiaries with “a pattern of racketeering activity” that included stealing trade secrets from other corporations.

The Senate passed a War Powers resolution on Thursday that would require President Donald Trump to obtain approval from Congress if he were to continue hostilities with Iran beyond 30 days.

The United Nations reported on Tuesday that a huge new wave of displaced civilians is pouring out of Syria’s Idlib province, driven out by intense Syrian and Russian military efforts to crush the last rebel forces and increasing tensions between Turkey and Syria. According to the U.N., the refugee situation in Idlib is the worst it has been since the beginning of the Syrian civil war.

TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian official who was the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned that Iran is just looking for an excuse to “raze Tel Aviv to the ground,” accusing Israel of helping the U.S. in its assassination of top commander Qassem Soleimani.

The Pentagon on Monday afternoon updated its numbers on how many U.S. service members suffered from mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an Iraqi base where they were stationed.

TEL AVIV – Israel and the U.S. will work together to combat Iranian terror in the Middle East, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said following a trip to the U.S., with the task being divvied up so that Jerusalem will work to curb Iran’s entrenchment in Syria while Washington will combat the Islamic Republic’s presence in Iraq.

Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch of a new scientific observation satellite scheduled within hours, the country’s telecommunications minister said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded when asked during Friday’s Democrat debate in New Hampshire if he would have also ordered an airstrike on Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Qasem Soleimani by saying that the United States should largely lean on the United Nations to “work out our differences.”

Biden said he would not have ordered the strike against Iranian terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani if he were president.

ABC moderator David Muir questioned Buttigieg as to whether or not he would have ordered the strike on Qasem Soleimani if he had the chance.

Family members of troops who deployed to the Middle East amid tensions in Iran have been told by leadership their loved ones are redeploying home.

Iranians who fled the Islamic Republic after facing persecution and prison sentences for their Christian faith said in remarks to Breitbart News this week that the majority of people in Iran support President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani.

Reuters on Wednesday reported on the exploits of Charming Kitten, a hacker group linked to the Iranian government that poses as journalists and attempts to trick victims into divulging passwords and other security information.

TEL AVIV – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s “foolish” peace plan will “die” before the American leader does.

President Donald Trump honored the family of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq during his State of the Union speech Tuesday, assuring them that the “evil reign of terror” of the man responsible for the murder, Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani, was over.

Iran has sentenced a man to death for allegedly spying for the CIA and attempting to share information about Tehran’s nuclear program, authorities said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

The allotment of green cards to foreign nationals arriving from countries listed on President Trump’s travel ban have continued almost unchanged, dropping by less than five percent, since 2017. 

A television network in Ukraine published a transcript of a conversation on Sunday in which Iranian authorities appear aware that a missile shot down Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, proving “Iran knew from the start” and lied about the plane’s demise, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell on Monday held talks in the Iranian capital on a mission aimed at lowering tensions over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The European Union’s new foreign affairs chief is travelling to Iran to meet with the country’s leaders, the Iranian official news agency said on Sunday, amid high regional tensions.

Middle East scholar A. J. Caschetta has denounced the hypocrisy of “World Hijab Day,” saying that the holiday dishonours the countless Muslim women who are forced to wear the hijab against their will.

More than 260,000 foreign nationals have been legally admitted to the United States from all 13 travel ban countries between 2016 and 2018.

Iranian state media is claiming a senior CIA officer named Michael D’Andrea, who it alleges planned the airstrike that killed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Qasem Soleimani in December, was killed when an American plane went down in Afghanistan on Monday.

The Pentagon released an updated number of United States service members who have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

The grieving husband of a woman killed after the Iran military shot down a Ukranian airliner fled the country, outlets reported on Monday, citing threats from officials warning him not to speak about the tragedy.

A majority of Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate Iran terror commander Qasem Soleimani, according to a ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave an interview to Germany’s Der Spiegel on Saturday in which he said Iran would be willing to negotiate with the United States if the U.S. unconditionally drops its economic sanctions.

An Iran commercial airliner with 135 passengers plus crew onboard overshot a runway as it landed Monday in the southwestern city of Bandar-e Mahshahr, continuing through the airport areas before coming to rest on a public street. State TV reported no casualties aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft.

A barrage of rocket fire targeted Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Sunday, hitting part of the U.S. embassy complex in that country. Saudi Arabia’s al-Arabiya news agency noted that the American compound “has been regularly hit by rockets in recent months.”

The George Soros-funded organization Vote Vets, which purports to stand for veterans but is a leftist organization, is twisting comments made by Sen. Tom Cotton.

A Fox News poll shows that 20 percent of Americans rated the United States economy as excellent, up 17 percent from what it was during the last month of the Obama administration (December 2016) when only three percent gave it that rating.

Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg on Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation” accused President Donald Trump of disrespecting U.S. soldiers who suffered traumatic brain injuries after an Iranian missile attack into Iraq by saying they had “headaches.”