Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke this afternoon to the United Nations General Assembly, questioning the assurances being voiced in some corners of the foreign policy community that newly inaugurated Iranian president Hassan Rouhani was willing or able to alter what is widely believed to be an Iranian drive to...

Israeli officials over the weekend released details regarding the arrest of an Iranian-Belgian citizen accused of conducting extensive espionage against Israeli and American targets inside the Jewish state, deepening concerns regarding the scope of Iranian terror networks and the sophistication of Iranian tradecraft. Ali Mansouri, in his mid-50s, was arrested...

The New York Times reports that Western sanctions against Iran have put the country on the brink of economic collapse, with restrictions on financial transactions in particular having created severe hard currency shortages. Businesspeople in Iran have seen this coming and have been adapting, said one economic analyst, who asked...

Details are beginning to emerge about what the U.S. would minimally demand from Iran in the context of a deal over the country’s nuclear program. National Security Adviser Susan Rice explained on Sunday that Iran would, for example, not be permitted to continue enriching uranium under any potential deal with...

The Wall Street Journal declared last Friday that it would “be happy to accept” an apology from CNN, after the cable network’s Christiane Amanpour declared on Twitter that the Journal had “jump[ed] into bed” with the “Iranian extremist mouthpiece” Fars news agency. Both the Journal and Fars criticized CNN for...

Israel’s left-leaning Ha’aretz describes a “sense of anxiety,” being conveyed to the White House by Jerusalem and by the U.S.’s chief allies in the Arab world, regarding American diplomacy related to Iran and the Iranian regime’s nuclear program. Adel al-Jubeir – who is Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Washington and who was...