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CARACAS, Venezuela – Tareck El Aissami, one of the socialist regime’s most powerful figureheads, resigned from his position as the country’s oil minister on Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) – A Lebanese and Belgian citizen considered a key financier of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah was arrested Friday in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, federal authorities said.

Lebanon is the target of “a systematic and calculated strategy by Iran and its minions to empty the country of its Christians,” Habib C. Malik told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

89-year-old Michel Aoun, president of Lebanon since 2016, vacated his office on Sunday with no successor standing by. Aoun’s departure leaves a country in even more turmoil, as one of his final acts was accepting the resignation of interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government.

Senior Israel defense officials said the military has destroyed around 90 percent of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria, ahead of reports of an Israeli raid on Damascus.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday said Israel and Lebanon had reached a “historic” agreement to resolve a decades-long maritime border dispute, saying it would prove a boon to the Israeli economy.

The Biden administration has been accused of pressuring Israel to concede to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group’s demands in resolving a maritime border dispute between Israel and its neighboring state Lebanon.

Reuters on Monday dispatched reporters to the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, the “ancestral home” of Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old man who rushed onstage and attacked author Salman Rushdie with a knife on Friday.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned his terror group would “sever” Israel’s hand if it dared to try and access offshore gas reserves, threatening to attack the Jewish state next month.

The Israeli Air Force simulated an attack on Iranian nuclear targets with dozens of fighter jets over the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday night, the Israeli military said.

The Hezbollah-led bloc has lost its majority in the Lebanese parliament, yielding the way for the Christian Lebanese Forces to become the largest Christian party in the parliament, according to the final results of the elections announced on Tuesday.

In an unusual twist, Iranians were filmed chanting “Death to Palestine” in protests in the southern Iranian city of Sirjan in recent days, the Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.

Angry protesters hit the streets of Iran on Friday after a two-year pause driven by the coronavirus pandemic. They demanded the immediate destruction of Israel, the U.S. and the UK along with anyone who even dares to speak favorably of the Jewish state, as directed by paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami.

A U.S. citizen named Alexei Saab allegedly performed surveillance work at various U.S. landmarks for the foreign terrorist group Hezbollah from 2000 to 2005 and was “ready to attack Americans at popular locations if Iran was attacked by the US,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel Adelsberg said in a federal court on Monday during the opening arguments of Saab’s terrorism trial, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday.

Any potential agreement between the administration of President Joe Biden and Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro for America to purchase Venezuelan oil – as reports have rumored Biden to be interested in this week – would have to go through the country’s oil minister, Tareck El Aissami, long suspected of ties to Hezbollah and wanted in America for drug trafficking.

The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch blasted Lebanon’s leaders Sunday, accusing them of destroying the country by their failure to govern.

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The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on an international financial network affilated with the Hezbollah terrorist group, which it said was evading primary sanctions to “gain access to material and financial support through the legitimate commercial sector.”

Israel will supply natural gas to Lebanon in a U.S.-brokered deal to aid the crisis-stricken country and provide it with an alternative to Iran, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported Saturday.

Australia on Wednesday listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety – banning the armed wing alongside the political affiliate.

Israel on Sunday launched a large-scale simulation of war in preparation for a confrontation against Iran or its Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah.

An anonymous hacker collective revealed the names of alleged Hezbollah terrorists living in Venezuela on Tuesday, accusing them of profiting from drug and human trafficking there after arriving as “students.”

At least six demonstrators were reportedly killed, and dozens more wounded, in Beirut on Thursday as tensions grew over the stalled investigation into the August 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut.

The investigation into the August 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut halted again Tuesday, a week after the families of the thousands killed and injured in the blast celebrated Judge Tarek Bitar surviving the second attempt to remove him by targets of the investigation.

Relatives of Amer Fakhoury announced on Tuesday they are suing the government of Iran for his imprisonment and abuse at the hands of Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist organization and political party supported by Tehran.

Lebanese Judge Tarek Bitar, the second judge to oversee the investigation of the titanic explosion that devastated the Port of Beirut in August 2020, has survived an effort by several targets of his investigation to remove him and effectively kill the probe.

Angry relatives of the hundreds killed in the titanic August 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut took to the streets on Wednesday, infuriated that the long and inconclusive investigation of the blast has been halted for the second time. 

The Algerian government announced on Wednesday that its airspace will no longer be open to civilian or military aircraft from Morocco, the latest development in a growing dispute between the neighboring nations.

Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, which is also the most powerful political party in Lebanon, brought its first promised shipment of Iranian fuel into Lebanon on Thursday, transporting it by truck from a port in Syria. The move was applauded by Hezbollah supporters but could trigger U.S. sanctions against the already fragile Lebanese economy.

BEIRUT — Driving back to base after firing rockets toward Israeli positions from a border area last month, a group of Hezbollah fighters was accosted by angry villagers who smashed their vehicles’ windshields and held them up briefly.

The Ben & Jerry’s board chair, who orchestrated the company’s recent move to sales of its ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” was accused of funneling money from the company to her own pro-Palestinian non-profit, a report said over the weekend.

Gregg Roman, chief operations officer of the Middle East Forum, said President Joe Biden’s foreign policy and military “disaster” in Afghanistan led to Russia’s provision of S-300 and Pantsir anti-missile systems to Syria for use against Israel’s military.

The leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group said Israel should learn a lesson from Joe Biden administration’s pullout of Afghanistan that the U.S. could not be relied on as an ally.

Hezbollah terrorist chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday confirmed an oil tanker is readying to sail for Lebanon from Iran, in clear defiance of U.S. sanctions.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi appointed terrorists and anti-Western hardliners in top ministerial positions on Wednesday, including an interior minister wanted by Interpol for his role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires as well as a foreign minister with close links to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group.

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says it has fired a barrage of rockets near Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border, calling it retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon a day earlier.