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Iran “never” plotted to assassinate Donald Trump during last year’s U.S. election campaign and never will in the future, President Masoud Pezeshkian told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an exclusive interview in Tehran. Asked about the reported plot against Trump outlined by U.S. authorities, Pezeshkian said: “This is another one of those schemes that Israel and other countries are designing to promote Iranophobia. ... Iran has never attempted to nor does it plan to assassinate anyone. At least as far as I know.”

Councils and universities urged to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day by Iran-linked group. The Telegraph, Jan 11, 2025. Link___Fury over plot to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day in Gaza row - 'disgraceful!'. As the world gears up to remember the Holocaust, a contentious campaign urging a boycott of the memorial day has stirred deep emotions and heated debates. By Giles Sheldrick, Jan 12, 2025. A campaign to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day has sparked fury from those preparing to mark the landmark anniversary. It is understood the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) which has links to Iran has written to 460 councils and...

Oy veh — it’s gonna get mashugana out there. In the waning days of the Biden administration (which also coincides with the waning days of Joe Biden), a few uncomfortable truths have emerged. First, Biden is destined to be remembered as one of the least consequential presidents in American history. His tenure was a speed bump -- a thin slice of bologna that’s sandwiched between the two Trump terms. For a guy like Biden, who so clearly covets adulation, recognition, and public praise, that’s gotta sting. Two, it’s now apparent that Biden’s presidency coincided with a national realignment. The public...

Iran is increasing its military presence in Venezuela, with officials and personnel, with some members of the country's elite acquiring properties in the Latin American country and being offered political asylum ... The relationship between the two countries has grown over the years, Infobae has detailed, with Iran having established a drone development base at the El Libertador air base in Venezuela, where training for Venezuelan military personnel is also carried out. That project includes the production and training in the use of a wide range of unnamed aerial vehicles (UAV) Among them are the ZAMORA V-1 (Shahed-131), used for...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), one of the Jewish state’s most vocal supporters in Congress who has hung posters in his office of hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has been protested often by anti-Israel activists, who accuse him of supporting a “genocide” in Gaza. The day after Washington determined that a genocide was committed in Sudan, he didn’t expect to see any protesters about that. “Zero dopes have shown up at my home or office, or blocked a road to chant and protest over an actual genocide in Sudan,”...

A top Iranian general has accused Russia of lying to Tehran by saying its jets were attacking Syrian rebels while they were instead bombing the open desert. In a rare break from Iran's diplomatic line on Syria, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati partially blamed Moscow for the fall of Bashar Assad's government during a speech at a mosque in Tehran. An audio recording of the speech was published on Tuesday by Abdullah Abdi, a journalist in Geneva who reports on Iran. "We were defeated, and defeated very badly. We took a very big blow, and it's been very difficult," Esbati said...

TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas, Hezbollah War and Syrian conflict. Pinto reports on the newest developments against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon’s fragile ceasefire, IDF operations in Syria, and the latest in negotiations for the release of hostages held by Hamas. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.

Posted on Tue, Aug. 24, 2004 Swiss Accuse Group of Backing al-Qaida JONATHAN FOWLER Associated Press GENEVA - Swiss investigators have found evidence that suspected members of a group backing al-Qaida were supplying fake documents to enable collaborators to enter Switzerland and other European countries illegally, the supreme court said Tuesday. The Federal Tribunal said one suspect, whose name was not released, was found to have links to both an unidentified al-Qaida recruiter who sent volunteers to the terror group's training camps and another unidentified individual convicted of terrorism offenses in France. The support group also provided cell phone numbers...

Dec. 19 Jerusalem stabbing ruled a terror attack. The suspect, Nabil Shabani, 60, was employed as a cleaner and handyman in the 70-year-old victim's apartment complex, according to Israeli authorities. (Jan. 5, 2025 / JNS). Israeli authorities on Sunday filed preliminary charges against a resident of eastern Jerusalem in connection with the Dec. 19 stabbing of an elderly Israeli woman in the capital’s downtown area. The suspect acted with a terrorist motive when he attacked the victim in her home, according to the indictment. Around noon on Dec. 19, the Magen David Adom emergency medical service received a report about...

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan presented President Biden with options for a potential U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities if the Iranians move towards a nuclear weapon before Jan. 20, in a meeting several weeks ago that remained secret until now, three sources with knowledge of the issue tell Axios. Why it matters: A U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear program during the lame duck period would be an enormous gamble from a president who promised he would not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, but who would also risk handing a fresh conflict over to his successor....

Standing barefoot in the mud with an empty container in hand at a crowded water station in central Gaza, Palestinian Alaa Al-Shawish is fearing the winter weather and looking for clean water for her family.Her family are living in a makeshift tent in Deir Al-Balah, after being displaced from Gaza City amid heavy Israeli bombardment. But their new home holds deadly perils of its own.

The IAF on Wednesday night conducted an intelligence-based strike in the Humanitarian Area in Khan Yunis and eliminated the head of Hamas Internal Security Forces in the southern Gaza Strip, terrorist Hassam Shahwan. Shahwan was hiding among the civilian population in the humanitarian area when he was eliminated by the IAF. "The Hamas Internal Security Forces have conducted violent interrogations of the Gazan population, violating human rights and suppressing dissent within the organization," the IDF stressed. "Hassam Shahwan was responsible for developing intelligence assessments in coordination with elements of Hamas’s military wing in attacks on the IDF in the Gaza...

A night of intense action across the Middle East: • The U.S. and Britain launched airstrikes in Yemen targeting Houthi weapons depots. • Sirens rang throughout Israel as a ballistic missile from Yemen was intercepted just before entering Israeli airspace. • On Israel’s northern front, IDF tanks encircled key buildings in southern Syria, while in Lebanon, Iranian funding fuels Hezbollah’s reconstruction efforts near the Israeli border.

Israel responded today to repeated attacks from Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, pounding multiple sites in Yemen with airstrikes, including Sanaa International Airport. Will these latest strikes be enough to deter the Houthis or is the situation bound to escalate? And are Israel’s long1range missions in Yemen a dry run for a future attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons sites? Watch now!

The IAF conducted an IDF and ISA intelligence-based strike, eliminating the terrorist Abd al-Hadi Sabah, a Nukhba Platoon Commander in the Western Khan Yunis Battalion. The terrorist operated from a shelter in the Humanitarian Area in Khan Yunis. Abd al-Hadi Sabah was one of the leaders of the infiltration into Kibbutz Nir Oz during the murderous October 7th Massacre. Moreover, throughout the war, Sabah led and advanced numerous terrorist attacks against IDF troops. Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions, intelligence, and aerial surveillance. "The IDF and ISA...

"President Jimmy Carter strongly supported the Ayatollah regime's takeover of Iran. In 1978, Carter and his advisors concluded that the Persian Shah, America's Gulf policeman, was obsolete, and they believed Ayatollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Paris, would suit the US as he was anti-Communist and anti-Soviet." Ettinger added, "Carter went so far as to declare—ten days before Khomeini landed in Tehran—that US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi. He also claimed Khomeini had no desire to spread the revolution outside Iran, would focus on tractors rather than tanks, and be a loyal envoy for the interests...

If Team Biden had called out the phony reports of famine and "genocide" from the start, and fully backed Israel's defensive war, the fighting might well have ended by now, writes the Post Editorial Board. Team Biden is slamming a report that warns of famine in northern Gaza. What a difference an election makes. Team Biden is blasting claims of famine in Gaza ... Indeed, if Team Biden had called out the phony reports of famine and “genocide” from the start, and fully backed Israel’s defensive war, the fighting might well have ended by now. On the bright side: A...

Government document compiles grim details of abuse of hostages, including whipping, branding with heated iron, isolation, binding, starving, maltreatment and psychological torment While in captivity in Gaza last year, two Israeli teenage hostages were forced to perform sexual acts on one another, and their captors sexually abused them, according to new details from a Health Ministry report set to be presented to the United Nations. The testimony and many other damning details are included in a report cataloging the physical, sexual and mental anguish the now-former abductees — some of them children — were subjected to, and the lasting effects...

Gee, then who might be the "problem" most vexing the new regime in Syria? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?In the immediate aftermath of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Israel moved quickly to destroy Assad's military assets. They also seized the demilitarized zone along their Syrian border to prevent some of the Islamist rebel groups from starting a war. Those moves got condemnation from the UN and some Western countries that have nominal alliance with Israel.According to the new regime's governor in Damascus, however, it's water under the bridge. Maher Marwan spoke to NPR as a representative of the new national government...

Relations between Israel and Ireland have been marked over the years by ongoing tension, harsh criticism from Dublin, and a growing sense of alienation. This has culminated in the recent decision of Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to shutter Israel’s embassy in Ireland — a rare move that underscores a deep crisis in the diplomatic relations between the two countries. This decision does not stand in a vacuum. It stems from Ireland’s longstanding antisemitic and anti-Israel policies, which include legislation supporting the Palestinian struggle and harsh statements against Israel by Irish politicians. […] Dublin views the Palestinian struggle for “liberation”...