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Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani were arrested earlier this month for allegedly spying on Jewish and Israeli institutions in the United States on behalf of Tehran.
The development comes ahead of an upcoming visit to Geneva by U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, who will meet with senior Russian officials, focusing on issues related to Iran and Syria.
The new sanctions on Iran prevent any transactions with the Islamic Republic involving dollar bank notes, gold, precious metals, alumni, steel, commercial passenger aircraft and coal, as well as ending imports into the United States of Iranian carpets and food.
The Israel Defense Forces flew a platoon of 40 soldiers and officers to Europe, where together with American troops they parachuted down to the ground from aircraft, and practiced seizing airfields and other targets.
Interesting exchange: The United States will not host its July Fourth celebrations in Israel from its controversial new Jerusalem embassy, while Russia this year will celebrate its independence day in Jerusalem, as opposed to Tel Aviv.
Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems beat out a bid by a German company to win a tender providing the Spike 2 missile to Australia.
“I will be announcing my decision on the Iran Deal tomorrow from the White House at 2 p.m.,” the president tweeted.
Foreign victims of human-rights abuses and terror attacks cannot sue foreign businesses in American courts, ruled the U.S. Supreme Court.
For American law enforcement, the best lesson from Israel may not be the fact that a security guard is armed, but that a greater focus is placed on that guard’s training and state of mind.
Will America pull out, or will it cave to European pressure to stay in the deal?
The Juniper Cobra 18 exercise, held since 2001, practices the rapid deployment of American air-defense units and equipment to Israel from Europe in the event of armed conflict.
According to Israeli military assessments, however, the LAF is increasingly coming under the sway of the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah, which dominates Lebanon politically and militarily.
