The Vatican and Israel are close to a deal on several outstanding issues, The Tower has learned. The announcement of an agreement paving the way to even closer ties could come later this year, possibly as early as June. Among the outstanding discussion points is the status of what Catholics see as...

Reuters reported Tuesday night that efforts by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) to force Iran to account for the so-called possible military dimensions (PMD) of its atomic program – efforts that U.S. officials, including President Barack Obama, had repeatedly emphasized are aimed at forcing the Islamic republic to meet its...

A new quantitative indicator developed jointly by Roubini Global Economics and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) points towards an improved economic outlook for Iran. The calculations, based on sentiment analysis derived from proprietary natural language processing algorithms, were detailed Friday in a new report published by Mark Dubowitz and Paul...

Israel and the United States are joining forces this week for the five-day, ballistic-missile-defense exercise Juniper Cobra. The Juniper Cobra exercises have been held every two years since 2001, and this year it will be the seventh exercise. In 2009, the main scenario of the exercise was an Iranian missile...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Japan this week promoting bilateral ties, drew a parallel between Israel and Japan’s challenges with nuclear proliferation, warning on Thursday that Iran was supplying North Korea with nuclear technology. The online news site Japan Today reports: Netanyahu, who is in Japan this week for talks...

USA Today late on Wednesday sketched out the emerging details of an anticipated deal between Iran and the P5+1 global powers, with the outlet bluntly assessing that the agreement will fall far short of securing an “end [to] Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon.” “The Iranians will have some...