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Writing on Iran in Syria, Hezbollah, illicit finance, articles w/ Former Senior editor/analyst ; Former head of newsdesk

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  1. 33 minutes ago

    Pro-Assad FB pages mourning Zidan's death noted that the name Mohammad Naji was found on documents in his car as his body was being recovered 5)

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  2. 33 minutes ago

    Daraa activist says that Zidan has worked for Hezbollah for several years, adding that the group summoned him to Lebanon four months ago before sending him back w/ a new mission and ID 4)

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  3. 40 minutes ago

    Local pro-Assad outlets said that militia figure Mashhour Zidan, from Hadar, was killed in the attack, distributing a picture of him with his child in front of a poster of late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh 3)

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  4. 40 minutes ago

    Syrian state news reported Sunday that a rocket hit a car driving in the Sasa area (approx 15 km from Golan demarcation line) killing a man and a child 2)

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  5. 40 minutes ago

    Unconfirmed reports that a Hezbollah-affiliated commander from the Quneitra town of Hader was killed in a UAV strike in southern Syria 1)

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    Khamenei appointed the designated Parviz Fattah as the new managing director of the IRGC-linked Mostazafan Foundation.

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  7. 14 hours ago

    Explosions heard in Masyaf are the result of rebel shelling, pro-Assad Sham FM reports

    مراسل : أصوات الانفجارات التي سمعت في مدينة بريف حماة الغربي ناجمة عن استهدف…
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    22 hours ago

    BREAKING: The STENA IMPERO is now back online on AIS and showing on to be in the same area we confirmed photo visual ID yesterday with imagery. We’ll following her every move from here on.

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  9. 22 hours ago

    Looks like Rami Makhlouf's Nour Microfinance is finally getting off the ground, with a new website and social media presence, and three recently-opened branches in Tartous, Safita and Jarmana 6)

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  10. 23 hours ago

    Syria and Iraq have reached "advanced stages" in plans to officially re-open the Albu Kamal-Qa'im border crossing, pro-gv't Al-Watan newspaper reports 39)

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    Jul 19

    Proud to publish my first ACW blog post: "Pasdaran, Solid-Fuel and Aviator Sunglasses: Reconstructing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s and IRGC Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari’s visits to Project Ghaem."

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    Jul 21

    With it, they publish a press release saying AbdAlMalek al-Houthi will delivers the amount to leader Hassan Nasrallah along w/ a message from “the great Yemeni people”. The total raised is given at 74,010,000 Yemeni rials ~ $295,700 USD incl. in-kind goods

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    Jul 20

    BREAKING: We now have positive ID's on the vessels that are being held in Iran. STENA IMPERO () is located outside navy port in Bandar Abbas (left), and RIAH is outside the navy port on Qeshm Island. High-res SkySat imagery by taken today.

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  14. Jul 20

    US Treasury auditing long list of Hezbollah officials and firms around the world to potentially sanction for "allegedly involved in laundering money, drug smuggling, and Iran's nuclear program," Al-Markazia cites "visitors to Washington" as saying

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  15. Jul 20

    Spate of killings of Iran-backed militiamen in eastern Syria, continues, with reporting four Fatemiyoun Brigade members found dead in Albu Kamal 38)

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    Jul 20

    This is back-channel petro-diplomacy at work, my friends. Let’s hope it will help de-escalate some of the tension. Iran didn’t get back GRACE 1, but they’re getting back her STS partner, HAPPINESS I. Curious what the negotiation terms were.

    BREAKING: It seems that Saudi Arabia has dispatched two tugboats to escort the departure of the Iranian VLCC supertanker HAPPINESS I out of Jeddah; heading home. She suffered engine failure in late April and needed…
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  17. Jul 20

    Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces and the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine org coordinated w/ Syrian Armed Forces to restore three water stations in Albu Kamal area 37)

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    Jul 20

    Seems has suspended the accounts of several of Iran’s state-run and semi-official news agencies including IRNA, Mehr and YJC, according to Tasnim news (so far not suspended)

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    Jul 20

    In an interview with , Minister of State for Administrative Development May Chidiac speaks of her ministry's plans for reorganizing the state bureaucracy, troubles in Cabinet, women in government and more.

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  20. Jul 19

    Let's go LAFC!

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