The government of Iran spent months brushing off inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency tasked with investigating Iran’s past nuclear work, and only began fully cooperating with them this week, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. Iran’s behavior changed when “the IAEA and some Western governments directly warned Tehran that it must increase...

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee will become the first Indian president to visit Israel when he arrives next week. Israeli President Rueven Rivlin said that the trip will “deepen the friendship between our states, in the fields of economy, science, medicine, and agriculture.” Mukherjee will address the Knesset and meet with Prime Minister...

Activists from the Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS) gathered in front of the Russian embassy in Washington on Friday to protest against the recent salvo of Russian airstrikes in Syria. Despite unfavorable weather conditions, a dozen activists demonstrated before the embassy gate, waving Syrian flags and calling for an...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s announcement Wednesday that he no longer considers himself bound by the Oslo Accords shows that he has “effectively given up” on a negotiated peace deal with Israel, The New York Times stated in a staff editorial. It is hard to gauge what President Abbas’s declaration before the United Nations General Assembly...

As much as the Obama administration and its supporters—including some members of the so-called “arms control community”—want to sell the Iran deal as a foreign policy victory and nonproliferation success story, it is nothing of the sort. Not even according to many who reluctantly lent their support to the deal...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, saying that successful talks would lead to peace between Israel and more Arab countries. In an interview with the Associated Press Sunday, Sisi said that resolving the Palestinian issue could “change the face of the region and … bring about enormous improvement...