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In Brief: Hezbollah releases video threatening missile strike on Israeli cities

Posted 24 June, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
  Photo: khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hezbollah released a video on Saturday in which it threatened to strike Israeli cities with precision-guided missiles. The Iranian-backed terror group said it has the capability to hit "very precise targets" anywhere in Israel. "Today, we can not only hit the city of Tel Aviv but also, if God…

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In Brief: Iran continues to violate nuclear deal, says international watchdog

Posted 10 June, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Image: Nanking2012, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium has grown by 50 percent in the last three months, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported this week. A former head of Israeli military intelligence warned that Iran has now substantially reduced the "break-out time" - the time in which it would be possible for the Islamic…

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Analysis: Qassem Soleimani’s bloody legacy for Iran and the region

Posted 9 January, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
Photo: khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the United States last week, has been described as the “single most powerful operative in the Middle East today”. His two-decade leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp’s Quds Force has seen the Islamic Republic’s influence and power in the region seemingly expand –…

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Analysis: Only 14% of Britons back BDS, says poll

Posted 11 December, 2019 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Image: Dr. Zachi Evenor, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Less than one in five Britons support boycotts of Israel and most view the Jewish state as the UK’s most important Middle Eastern ally in the fight against terrorism, according to polling released last week by BICOM. The annual poll also found an increase in the number…

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Analysis: Iran faces protests at home and abroad

Posted 20 November, 2019 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Photo: GTVM92, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Mass protests swept Iran over the weekend after the regime abruptly cut fuel subsidies and raised petrol prices. Protests occurred in 100 cities and towns, including Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Kermanshah and Sanandaj. Amnesty International says over 100 people have been killed in clashes between demonstrators and baton-wielding security forces. Unofficial reports…

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Analysis: Hezbollah’s precision missile project menaces Israel

Posted 8 October, 2019 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
Photo: khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “The enemy is on the defensive — we have always been on the defensive, now we are in attack mode,” Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah (pictured), declared last week. Although he has often issued blood-curdling threats against Israel, this was no mere sabre-rattling by the terror group head. As a newly…

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We should have been told about the Hezbollah bomb-making factory

Posted 10 June, 2019 in Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Iran, News
This op-ed first appeared in the Jewish News, click here to view the original.  Many of us have never needed convincing about just how dangerous Hezbollah is. That’s why – alongside Jewish communal organisations and colleagues from across the House of Commons – we campaigned to have this antisemitic terror group proscribed in its entirety. Belatedly, and under much…

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Joan Ryan writes to the Home Secretary regarding Hezbollah UK bomb factory

Posted 10 June, 2019 in Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Iran, News
Following reports that the UK security services in 2015 foiled an plot by Hezbollah agents in the UK,  LFI chair Joan Ryan has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid expressing concern about the withholding of information about the plot from both the public and parliament. Until February of this year, only Hezbollah’s military wing was proscribed,…

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Analysis: What does Tehran’s terror army in Gaza want?

Posted 15 May, 2019 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Israelis and Palestinians have already paid a high price for the mounting tensions between Iran and the United States. According to The Times this week, “a key meeting” was recently held in Beirut between Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Al-Quds Brigade, and Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The apparent result: last weekend’s barrage of…

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