Two new proposed laws in Iran designed to marginalize women who don’t bear children will further erode women’s rights and reduce Iranian women to “baby making machines,” according to a new report by Amnesty International published on Wednesday. One of the laws outlaws voluntary sterilization, which is believed to be the second most common method...

In his observations about Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Saudi Arabia last week, columnist Tariq Al-Homayed of the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat charged that an agreement between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program that fails to end Iran’s occupation of other countries or stop its sponsorship...

Over the past two days, both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki have admitted that the current nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran is “non-binding.” Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, Kerry said that the deal is not “legally binding.” “We’ve been...

A analysis for the Institute for National Security Studies published Tuesday argued that Iran’s claims of victimization are a “nuclear fairy tale,” part of a “a public campaign to persuade the media and public opinion” that it is being unfairly targeted by a “bullying hegemonic West.” In the analysis, Shimon Stein and Emily Landau...

Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, an Iranian cleric who has been identified in news reports as a hardliner, was elected Tuesday to head Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body charged with selecting a new Supreme Leader upon the death of the current Ayatollah. Reuters reports: The surprise choice of Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi...

In an interview with Erin Burnett on CNN yesterday, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, said that the success of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress last week shouldn’t be measured in electoral terms, but rather in diplomatic terms. By this measure, Hazony said, Netanyahu “made his case exceptionally well.” I’m...