The U.S. Treasury has outlined a number of mechanisms that Iran is using to evade sanctions meant to induce the country to increase transparency around its atomic program, which is widely suspected of having a clandestine weapons component. The Iranians are using, according to Treasury officials, private exchange houses and...

Australian officials announced yesterday that the country will expand its sanctions against Iran, which are targeted at encouraging Tehran to increase transparency around its atomic program. Canberra imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Iran in 2008, and Foreign Minister Bob Carr linked the new restrictions to ongoing Iranian noncompliance wth U.N. Security...

In response to increased cyber warfare, the Israel Defense Forces has doubled the number of soldiers trained specifically for combatting cyber-attacks on vital Israeli computer infrastructure. During Operation Pillar of Defense in November “a record number of such attacks was recorded, which came from over 180 different countries, mostly against government and...

A new study shows massive Iranian support has improved the military capabilities of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organizations. According to Tel Aviv-based Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the massive rocket fire from Gaza in November that targeted Israeli civilian population centers was made possible by Iran’s support....

Two key Iranians, including the man described as Tehran’s “Spy Master” have been spending time in Egypt over the last two weeks. For three decades the two countries had no diplomatic relations, but ties have warmed considerably since the Muslim Brotherhood ascended to power in Cairo. Egypt invited Iranian spy...

Iran’s missiles can strike thousands of “enemy” bases throughout the region, according to boasts by a top Iranian military official. Gen. Morteza Qorbani described Iran’s missile arsenal as capable of conducting sustained strikes on targets within 2,000 kilometers of Iran’s borders, and Qorbani emphasized that the range brought 2,000 “enemy” targets...