The global financial giant Deutsche Bank was fined $258 million for violating American sanctions against Iran, Syria, and other nations, The New York Times reported Thursday. It is the latest in a string of settlements over sanctions violations as regulators take aim at banks for doing business with blacklisted countries. Still, criminal investigations...

President Barack Obama will have a “very substantive agenda” to pursue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to Washington, which will include discussions on Israel’s security challenges and the recently signed nuclear deal with Iran, senior administration officials said Thursday. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told...

Iran’s recent crackdowns on businessmen with ties to the United States, arrests of journalists, and continued rhetorical attacks on the United States have validated concerns raised by critics of the nuclear deal that it would increase the power of the regime’s hardliners. An article in the New York Times on Wednesday highlighting Iran’s...

Democratic presidential frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed strong support for Israel in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Forward, promising that if elected, she would invite the Israeli prime minister to Washington during her first month in office. Clinton cited her record on Israel as a senator and Secretary of State, including...

U.S. officials believe that the increasing number of hacking attacks carried out this past month by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) against American government personnel may be linked to the arrests of American-Iranian citizens by the regime, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,...

Those who hoped that the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 nations and Iran would moderate Tehran and lead to rapprochement with the West have recently been “jolted with a series of increasingly rude awakenings,” including a rise in anti-American activity and a crackdown on rights, The New York Times reported...