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(JNS) – The Isalmic Republic on Thursday threatened to reconsider its official nuclear doctrine amid Israeli threats to retaliate against the Islamic Republic for its unprecedented direct missile and drone attack on the Jewish state. “A review of our nuclear doctrine and politics as well as considerations previously communicated is entirely possible,” said Maj. Gen. Ahmad Haghtalab, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander responsible for safeguarding Iran’s nuclear sites, Reuters reported. Threats “against Iran’s nuclear facilities make it possible to revise and deviate from the declared nuclear policies and considerations,” he added, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.…

(JNS) – An Iranian athlete who posted criticism online of Iran’s April 14 attack on Israel has reportedly been arrested, and her whereabouts have been unknown since Wednesday, according to media reports. Iranian national volleyball team player Mobina Rostami posted on her Instagram account: “As an Iranian, I am truly ashamed of the authorities’ attack on Israel, but you need to know that the people in Iran love Israel and hate the Islamic Republic.” She was reportedly arrested shortly afterwards. One of the comments on her post came from an account associated with Iranian security forces, stating: “We will shove you…

Hamas’s strategy now is to pressure Israel globally to end conflict before Gaza collapses. Hamas’s leadership in Rafah continues to cling to fanatical visions of eventual victory, six months into the war it launched with Israel, according to Israeli observers. “As long as they are not decisively defeated, they have a chance to stay alive in Gaza. Therefore, they positively view the outcomes of the war, or at least they have some kind of optimism,” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of the Research and Assessment Division of Israel’s Military Intelligence and currently director of the Project on…

Each terror organization took control of different hospital wards, intelligence has revealed. As more details emerge from the Israel Defense Force’s surprise raid on Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which began on March 19, one thing has become clear: Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad absorbed a painful setback that will have strategic reverberations on their capabilities in northern Gaza. The IDF has categorized the raid as one of its most successful operations in the entire war, due to the number of terrorists who surrendered, the number of terrorists killed in the hospital complex, and the intelligence gleaned from those being…

Palestinian support for the Oct. 7 attack is 71% calling Hamas’s decision to launch it ‘correct.’ Ninety-three percent of Palestinians believe that Hamas did not commit atrocities during its mass invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, and 72% support the attack, according to recent polling conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR). The survey of 1,580 Palestinians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria was conducted between March 5 and 10 via in-person interviews. The margin of error was 3%. New Palestinian Polling (thread): – While support for Hamas’ offensive on October the 7th remains as high…

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group, has reported that Israel has set a deadline for a diplomatic agreement to calm tensions on the border. According to the report, Israel informed Western countries that it will wait until March 15 in order to achieve a diplomatic agreement with Lebanon. If such an agreement is not achieved by March 15, Israel is preparing to expand the IDF’s operations in Lebanon to a widescale war. Since the start of the war with Hamas, Hezbollah terrorists have fired missiles on a near-daily basis towards northern Israel, injuring…

According to a report by Arabic Post on Wednesday, Iran has given Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah the go-ahead to escalate its attacks along Israel’s northern border. High-level Iranian and Lebanese sources revealed that Tehran has set conditions for Hezbollah, ordering it to launch a large-scale attack on Israel only after it becomes certain of Israel’s intention to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah. A source from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) told Arabic Post that IRGC Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani met with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on Monday to discuss the latest developments along Israel’s northern border. Nasrallah reportedly…

The Biden administration and a small group of Middle East partners are attempting to bypass Israel and rush to complete a comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state that could be announced as early as the next several weeks, according to a Washington Post report. The administration is trying to use a proposed pause in the Israel-Hamas war for a hostage deal to gain support for the formation of an interim Palestinian government which would then take over Gaza and establish a state which could be internationally…

State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said that the Biden administration’s policy regarding recognizing a Palestinian state remains unchanged. In response to a question about a report that the Biden administration is exploring the possibility of recognizing a Palestinian state following the war in Gaza, Miller said: “We have been quite clear publicly that we support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state—with security guarantees for Israel. That’s been the policy of the United States for some time and that has been the policy of this administration.” “We look at any number of options—that’s part of the normal planning process. The…

A conflict that started on a tiny perimeter of land on Oct. 7 is, less than four months later, reverberating throughout the region, from Turkey in the north to Morocco in the west, Iran in the east and Yemen in the south. “This is an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday at a press conference. “I would argue that we’ve not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across the region since at least 1973, and arguably even before that.” The epicenter of the Israel-Hamas conflict remains…