Middle East / Levant

“We tell the Americans that you have failed in the battlefield of pressure against the Iranian nation,” says Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami.

“The development of the Iranian nuclear program and the ballistic missile project endanger the entire region,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud tells an emergency meeting of the Arab League.

The Islamic Shiite Waqf Committee in Burj al Barajneh foundation is suspected of being used to hide ballistic missiles and launch sites, according to the Alma research organization.

Despite the alarming headline of this report, Biden and Blinken are probably better for Israel and the Middle East than Obama and John Kerry, if only because they're too busy dealing with other issues first.

The conversation took place a day after reports emerged from Syria that Russian forces were searching for the remains of IDF  soldiers near Damascus.

The first shepherd admitted he was sent by Hezbollah.

One week ago Iran had already produced 17 kilograms (37.5 pounds) of 20 percent enriched uranium; Tehran plans to produce 120 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium per year.

Aid agencies in Yemen welcomed President Biden’s plan to revoke the Houthis' designation as a terrorist group.

“Samples taken from two sites during inspections in the fall by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) contained traces of radioactive material.”

Lokman Slim, 58, a publisher and filmmaker, was part of a small group of Shi’ite Muslim political activists who openly criticized the terror group.

Tehran maintains its satellite program and nuclear technology are both being used for peaceful means.

“Our action is due entirely to the humanitarian consequences of this last-minute designation from the prior administration."

“Ultimately, the IRGC is more dangerous than any of the groups listed, and constitutes a real and present danger to Iranian dissidents, the Jewish community and Canadians in general,” said B’nai Brith Canada.

“One covert attack in the middle of the night, and everything would be over the next morning,” says the deputy police chief of Dubai.

Assadolah Assad, who served in the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was convicted of transporting explosives for an attack on leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran at the group’s annual rally near Paris in 2018.

A U.K.-based war monitor group reports that the alleged Israeli strikes targeted “several military positions,” and militias associated with Hezbollah and the Syrian Resistance for the Liberation of the Golan.

Biden insisted that his speech was intended to “send a clear message to the world: America is back,” but he might as well have said Jimmy Carter's America was back.

Yaakov Berg, who owns the Psagot Winery with his wife, expresses his hope that “peace with the Emirates will change our relationship with Palestinians.”

Earlier on Wednesday morning, two Iranian cargo planes arrived in Syria.

Iranian nuclear program “a challenge we have to tackle immediately,” says U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price.

Hezbollah missed.

“Imports from the UAE may still displace domestic production and thereby threaten to impair our national security.”

Hezbollah regularly uses shepherds to gather intelligence and check the readiness of the forces stationed on the border.

“The Nobel Peace Prize is not for popularity... It is an award for fulfilling the daunting criteria set out by Alfred Nobel in his will.”

Speaking in a taped interview with NBC News, Blinken also said the Biden administration is considering new sanctions against North Korea and Russia.

The IDF stated that the drone crashed while on an operation on the Lebanese border, and that there is no fear of an intelligence leakage.

The IDF noted that throughout last year, the Hezbollah terror organization has “continually violated” UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and other international resolutions.

The training meetings are hosted on Zoom by leading figures in the Israeli innovation industry.

“We held negotiations once and the dossier of the JCPOA talks has been closed. Our stance on the JCPOA was clear."

A “return to the nuclear deal from 2015 or even a similar deal with a few improvements is bad and wrong . . . operationally and strategically."