Nicholas Saidel, the associate director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR) argues today at the Israeli website Mida that Israel can weaken Iran by allying itself with various ethnic minorities currently suffering persecution in Iran. Observing that “Hamas’ power, to a large extent, relies...

Iran’s atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi revealed this week that Iran had tested a new generation of advanced centrifuges that analysts believe would dramatically improve the Islamic republic’s ability to go nuclear at will, a development that Reuters suggested might “annoy Western states” committed to rolling back Tehran’s atomic...

On Monday, Tehran unveiled its Talash-3 surface-to-air missile, which Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili says will be able to “shoot down any hostile target,” even at high altitudes. Iran claims it recently test-fired the Talash-3 with success. The Talash systems can be fired to low, medium,...

Emily Landau, a senior research fellow at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, warns in a paper published Wednesday that the P5+1, the six countries negotiation with Iran, risk “a bad nuclear deal” by failing to deal with two crucial issues. While most of the public discussion about the negotiations has focused...

The Iran-backed terror organization Hamas is already broadcasting strong signals that it has no interest in peace and is gearing up for its next war against Israel. The Izzadin Al-Qassam Brigades tweeted (Arabic link): We won, and swore by Allah that we will continue to dig (tunnels), and create more (rockets),...

On Monday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) threatened to “accelerate” its arming of Palestinians, apparently in response to a purported Israeli drone infiltrating its airspace over the weekend. The Telegraph reports: “We will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response,”...