The symbolic vote today in France’s National Assembly supporting Palestinian statehood is “a grave error” according to French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib. Habib, who represents French citizen in eight Mediterranean countries including Israel, also said that the vote “will remove France from any position in which it can participate in any...

VIENNA – With the deadline to reach an agreement over Iran’s nuclear program only days away, negotiators in Vienna are working to bridge what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry today called “big gaps” in negotiation demands. In addition to multiple meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and various European diplomats, Kerry consulted with Israeli Prime...

VIENNA – Foreign ministers involved in the P5+1 negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have elected to continue negotiating and stay the night in Austria, despite earlier reports that they would leave before the end of the day. It was previously reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif planned to fly to Tehran to...

In 2009, at the beginning of his first term in office, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would be seeking to “directly engage” with Iran. Nonetheless, Obama acknowledged that Iran’s “actions over many years now have been unhelpful when it comes to promoting peace and prosperity both in the region and...

Despite the nuclear talks taking place in Oman between Iran, the U.S., and the EU, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy has issued a clear warning to the United States to leave the Gulf region. Admiral Ali Fadavi’s statement is just the latest example of Tehran’s verbal belligerence...

The student union at Goldsmiths College in London voted against commemorating the Holocaust this week by a margin of 60 to 1. Education officer Sarah El-Alfy urged students to vote against the proposal, rejecting it as “Eurocentric” and “colonialist”. One unnamed student added that, “The motion would force people to remember things they may...