Americans being freed from Iranian captivity were not allowed to leave the Islamic Republic until “another plane” had arrived, one of the hostages said in an interview on Thursday, lending credence to the perception that the U.S.’s $400 million cash payment to Iran at the same time as the hostage transfer...

The United Nations’ top human rights official called the hanging of up to 20 Kurds by Iran last week a “grave injustice” that followed a dubious judicial process. According to Iranian state media, the executed Kurds were suspected of orchestrating attacks on security forces and of killing two Sunni Muslim clerics, Reuters...

Top Israeli defense officials rejected on Friday President Barack Obama’s assertion that Israel’s security establishment now “acknowledges” that the nuclear deal with Iran “has been a game changer” and a benefit to the Jewish state’s security. “The Israeli security establishment believes that agreements only have value if they are based on existing reality and...

Senior officials at the Department of Justice (DoJ) were overruled after they objected to the Obama administration’s plan to send $400 million in cash to Iran at the same time that American hostages were released, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. “People knew what it was going to...

The next war between Israel and Hezbollah “will be catastrophic” because the Iran-backed terror organization has stationed its military assets inside “built-up population centers in cities, towns and villages” in Lebanon, Stéphane Cohen, head of diplomatic outreach and security analysis for The Israel Project (which publishes The Tower), wrote in The Times of Israel on Thursday....

Iran executed a gay teenager last month in contravention of international law, which prohibits the application of the death penalty to minors, Amnesty International revealed on Tuesday. Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in the Arak prison on July 18 after being convicted of “forced male-to-male anal intercourse.” He was arrested...