A delayed human rights report issued this week by the State Department was harshly critical of Iran, The Hill reported yesterday. The Obama administration accused Iran of “severe restrictions on civil liberties,” “disregard” for people’s physical safety and general abuse of human rights on Thursday, days before a deadline for...

By changing course and “halting the Iranians’ path toward nuclear capability,” the Obama administration could reverse what is potentially “one of the greatest missteps” in history and strengthen the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published today...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that recent comments made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “do not seem to go in [the] direction” of supporting a “robust” nuclear deal, Reuters reported Wednesday. “France wants a deal but wants the deal to be robust, a good deal, but not a bad...

A classified document from the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran reveals that Western powers are willing to help Iran construct a low-water nuclear reactor instead of its nearly-completed plutonium-producing plant, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. This proposal is strikingly similar to the plan outlined in the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, the last...

Anti-Israel bias has been a pervasive feature of the United Nations Human Rights Council since its inception nine years ago, according to a report issued yesterday by the watchdog group UN Watch. In the nine years of its existence, the UN Human Rights Council has condemned Israel more times than the rest...

An open letter to the White House signed by a bipartisan group of experts, including five former Obama administration officials, called on the United States to strengthen the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The letter enumerated five elements that need to be strengthened to prevent Iran...