Coordinated suicide bombings on the Iranian embassy in Beirut yesterday poured fuel on concerns that the Islamic republic and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah were dragging Lebanon into the two-and-a-half-year Syrian conflict. Tehran sought to both blame Israel and threaten retaliation for the attack beyond Lebanon’s borders, but their case – per a late Tuesday...

With speculation over impending Iran talks reaching a fever pitch, analysts are outlining what minimum requirements an interim deal with Iran must meet if it is to successfully move Tehran further from being able to construct a nuclear weapon. At stake more precisely is whether Iranian concessions – to be...

Former Israeli national security adviser Yaakov Amidror spoke over the weekend to the Financial Times, days before global powers were set to meet with Iranian negotiators in efforts to strike a deal over Iran’s nuclear program. The P5+1 group has been criticized – including by France, which is part of the...

Recent days have witnessed something of a rhetorical campaign questioning the motivations and even loyalties of analysts and lawmakers pushing for new sanctions against Iran. Weeks ago the administration line – that sanctions had coerced Iranian leaders into coming to the negotiating table against their will and that new sanctions would derail ongoing...

Two weeks ago French objections to what the country’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described as a “sucker’s deal” reportedly contributed to blocking a deal between the P5+1 and Iran that would have swapped limited Iranian concessions for relief from international sanctions. Last week Patrick Maisonnave, France’s ambassador to Israel, outlined the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday took to CNN to criticize what he described as an “extremely bad deal” with Iran that global powers are said to be hopeful they can secure this week in Geneva. It’s not just the terms of the trade – which would allow Iran...