Iran pushes threats from Yemen to Lebanon
The overall context then is that the Houthis and Hezbollah are both vowing to step up attacks, despite the fact they have faced opposition from the US and Israel respectively.
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Russia and China are testing Biden — and so far, he’s failing
Russia has massed nearly 90,000 troops near its border with Ukraine, while China is reportedly establishing a military base in Equatorial Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. America’s adversaries are wasting...
Op-eds
Iran Shipping Sanctions Run Aground?
Officially, the Obama administration remains committed to enforcing sanctions on Iran’s main merchant shipping fleet, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, also known as IRISL. But i...
Op-eds
Iran’s Worrisome Shipping News
Bravo to the European Union, whose authorities are seeking ways to maintain sanctions on Iran's national cargo...
Op-eds
About Those Blacklisted Iranian Ships Calling at Libyan Ports…
The U.S. is looking for ways to beef up security in Libya, following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Two warships an...
Op-eds
Countering The Threat From Terrorist Media
The Long War against radical Islam is a war of ideas as much as a war of arms. Yet, for much of the past decade, the incitement and violent propaganda emanating from satellite television stations...
Op-eds
Watching al-Manar
The long war against radical Islam is a war of ideas as much as a war of arms. For decades, America, Israel, and other democracies have ignored the incitement and violent propaganda emanating fro...
Op-eds
Advertising on Terror TV
Co-authored by: Roberta Bonazzi. In one episode of the 29-part Ramadan special "Al-Shatat, The Diaspora," a rabbi orders his young son to kidnap a Christian friend so that hi...
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Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television Dropped Again
Hezbollah's Al-Manar Television Dropped Again...
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Senators Call on President Bush to Act Against Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television
Al-Manar Television...
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Free Speech for Terrorists?
The nexus in militant Islam between advocacy and actual savagery is no longer contestable. It has been the subject of too much informed analysis and, more importantly, is an empirically demonstra...
Op-eds
Terrorist Designation Drives Al-Manar from U.S. Airwaves
Washington, Dec 20, 2004 -The Coalition Against Terrorist Media, a project of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, welcomed news that satellite providers have removed Hezbollah’s...
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Banning Hizballah TV in America
Seeking to prevent terror propaganda and incitement to terror in America, the U.S. government added al-Manar (Arabic for "the beacon"), the official television mouthpiece of Hizballah, or the Lebanese Party of God, to the Terrorism Exclusion List (TEL). By designating the network as a terrorist organization the government will effectively take Hizballah television off the air in the United States by denying entry to its employees and to anyone who supports the network.