Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today issued a sharply worded condemnation of the West’s decision to continue nuclear talks with Iran, in light of the latest threat made by Iran against Israel. The Times of Israel reported: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday excoriated world powers over their dogged pursuit...

The Palestinian Authority has denied that an Israeli move to unfreeze the PA’s tax revenues was part of a deal to get the Palestinians to halt their bid to have Israel prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Ha’aretz reported yesterday. The report cited an anonymous senior Palestinian official. “We continue to...

The concessions built into the deal currently taking shape between the P5+1 and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland may be so extensive as to undermine the possibility of long-term monitoring, and fail to stretch Iran’s breakout time to a year, according to former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy director Olli Heinonen....

An Iranian journalist who served as a media advisor to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani defected to the West over the weekend, protesting that he could “only write what he was told.” Reuters reported that Amir Hossein Motaghi was on the team that helped Rouhani win the 2013 presidential elections. “My conscience would...

The P5+1 global powers and Iran will issue a “general” statement to close the latest round of nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, according to an Associated Press (AP) report today. According to the AP, the statement would “[allow] the sides to claim enough progress has been made thus far to merit...

Attacks on Houthi targets by Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen intensified Monday. CNN reported that the Saudi-led coalition targeted Houthi military position and weapons depots in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. The Saudi-led forces also struck a camp for internally displaced refugees as speculation grows that a ground invasion...