Al Arabiya on Monday (link in Arabic) cataloged  a series of concessions that the Obama administration is rumored to have made to Iran as negotiations approach the upcoming November 24 deadline, a week after The New York Times reported on plans by President Barack Obama to “do everything in his power to...

Dr. Emily Landau, a nuclear proliferation expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, shared her concerns last Thursday about recent developments in the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran. She made her remarks in a conference call organized by The Israel Project, which publishes The Tower. (A complete recording of the...

Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Right in the Islamic Republic of Iran, compiled a report on the status of minorities in Iran to be presented to political leaders Tuesday. Benjamin Weinthal reports that despite Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s campaign promise to extend citizenship...

Thursday, David Schenker of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wrote an assessment of the twenty years of formal peace between Israel and Jordan. The treaty was signed October 26, 1994, twenty years ago today. In short Schenker writes: For Israel, the treaty was its second with an Arab...

Lawmakers from both Congressional chambers and both parties continued on Wednesday and Thursday to blast the Obama administration over reports – explicitly outlined on Sunday by The New York Times – that the White House will seek to freeze out lawmakers from helping to shape a nuclear deal with Iran. The...

An editorial today in The Washington Post condemns the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for “once again blatantly violating the ‘red line’ drawn by Mr. Obama against the use of chemical weapons” and violating its commitment to abide by the Chemical Weapons Convention it signed last year. One grim indication that...