European Diplomats Seek to Curb Iran Actions in Yemen, Syria 2/20/2018 5:29:03 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met over the weekend with senior European diplomats in Munich to discuss the conflict in Yemen Talks aim to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to preserve Iran nuclear deal By Laurence Norman MUNICH, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 19, 2018  - European officials are intensifying their efforts to save the Iranian nuclear deal, opening a new channel to press Tehran to curtail its military involvement in neighboring conflicts just as tensions spiral throughout the Middle East. European diplomats sat down with a senior Iranian official over the weekend on the sidelines of a major security conference in Munich. They hope to check Iranian activity in Yemen, Syria and other parts of the Middle East as a way to show U.S. President Donald Trump that Iranian expansion can be reversed while sticki...

McMaster to allies: Track your investments and stop funding Iran’s proxy militias 2/18/2018 5:31:59 PM Hezbollah cannons pounding militants positions on the Lebanon-Syria border. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster made an appeal to NATO members and allies at the Munich Security Conference to cut off funding that indirectly funds Hezbollah and other proxy militias that weaken Middle East nations to bolster Iranian influence. MUNICH, Defense News, Feb. 17, 2018  - National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster made an appeal to NATO members and allies at the Munich Security Conference to look hard at who they’re doing business with overseas and cut off funding that indirectly funds Hezbollah and other proxy militias that weaken Middle East nations to bolster Iranian influence. The Iranian regime continues to get support from commercial entities, affiliated with the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – “including Mahan Air, a company that lands righ...