Iran reacted angrily on Sunday to a Canadian court ruling ordering the seizure of millions of dollars of Iranian property and bank assets. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said the ruling had “no legal value,” with the Iranian news agency Tasnim explaining A court in Canada’s Ontario has recently...

Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam condemned the latest armed clashes to erupt on the streets of Beirut as increasing numbers of factions and individuals get their hands on weapons, threatening the stability of country and trying to drag Israel into the regional conflict. There is little or no central security...

Veteran Israeli national security correspondent Yaakov Lappin this week conveyed what he described as “recent Israeli intelligence assessments” concluding that Hamas is steadily moving to reinvigorate its strained relationship with Iran, amid broader signals that the Palestinian terror group is desperate to halt what has become its worst economic crisis in roughly a decade....

Iran’s top leaders and diplomats had spent the weeks leading up to recent Vienna talks underlining one red line after another, on issues ranging from the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment program, its plutonium-producing Arak complex, its centrifuge research push, and its development of ballistic missiles. Analysts who hoped that the...

A scandal has erupted in Iran surrounding the dramatic misuse of funds intended for medical budgets, undercutting one of the most widely held arguments for lifting international sanctions. It emerges that the widely reported shortage in medical supplies in the Islamic Republic was the result not of sanctions — but...

The U.S. and EU’s response to the crisis in Ukraine may induce Russia to “raise the stakes” by revising its stance on nuclear talks with Iran, per statements by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov conveyed on Wednesday by Reuters. “We wouldn’t like to use these talks as an element of the game...