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Following the escalation on Friday morning, in which the US Treasury Department published a list of 13 Iranian individuals and 12 Iranian entities facing new restrictions following Iran's recent ballistic missile test, Tehran promptly denounced the latest round of sanctions imposed by the US and said it would retaliate - something it has previously said it would do - however added a new twist when Tehran announced it would impose legal restrictions on American individuals and entities helping "regional terrorist groups", a Foreign Ministry statement read as quoted by TV.

Submitted by Robert Wood via Forbes.com,

Via Judicial Watch,

A new government audit confirms what Judicial Watch has been reporting for years, that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican border towns and infiltrating the United States to carry out attacks.

Whether you love or hate Trump’s “Muslim ban” (it’s actually a temporary 3-month ban, except for Syrians), there’s a bigger picture …

CNN notes:

The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump’s executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.

 

As President-Elect Trump visited Washington in December, and received calls from world leaders, Germany's Der Spiegel magazine makes it clear just what the European establishment thinks of The Donald's future...

And now, with President Trump having taken office, the German media (having exclaimed his inauguration address as "a declaration of war"), have dropped their latest cover-bomb, dubbed "America First"...

... clearly, Europe - or at least Spiegel - is confident it is next.