As the Lebanese army intensifies its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other Islamist groups, the United States, its allies and Iran are increasing their aid to Lebanon. Earlier this week, the U.S. delivered more than $25 million of American weapons, including heavy artillery, to...

Satellite imagery shows that Iran has continued asphalting a site where it is believed to have carried out testing necessary for detonating a nuclear bomb, according to a report yesterday from the Institute for Science and International Security. The military facility in Parchin has long been an issue of concern...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech, rather than being divisive, will address the Iranian threat which is a matter of bipartisan concern in the United States, David Hazony argued Monday in The Forward. Hazony is editor of The Tower. After asking, “[w]hat happens, however, when you actually bracket out the...

With an eye on the Iranian regime, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey could look to build their own nuclear programs, raising concerns that the failure to halt Iran’s nuclear program could trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. This week Egypt and Russia announced a plan to...

Syrian government troops, bolstered by Hezbollah militants and officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), are continuing a recently-launched offensive in southern Syria. Opposition forces had been making inroads in the region, but on Tuesday the pro-regime forces had “taken a string of villages and hills” along the border of the Israeli...

Iran is marking the 36th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution with massive state-sponsored rallies. State television aired scenes from the rallies in Tehran and around the country on February 11, showing participants chanting (Persian link) “down with the U.S.”, “death to America” and “death to Israel.” On February 11, 1979, followers...