Ahmed Shaheed and David Kaye, respectively the UN’s Special Rapporteurs for the human rights situation in Iran and for the right to freedom of opinion and expression, called on Iran to stop intimidating journalists “as the country prepares for parliamentary elections early next year,” in a statement released Wednesday. The statement...

An Iranian hacking group believed to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was crippled by raids carried out by police across Europe after an Israeli-American cybersecurity firm informed them about the group’s activities, Reuters reported on Monday. Researchers from U.S.-Israeli security firm Check Point Software said the 1,600 high-profile...

London mayor Boris Johnson called boycotters of Israel “foolish” while visiting Tel Aviv on a trip designed to attract Israeli high-tech companies to his city, the Associated Press reported Monday. The mayor of London has lashed out against boycotters of Israel as “lefty academics” who wield no real influence. … Johnson...

Citing a concern that the European Union’s proposed guidelines to label goods produced by Israeli companies operating in the West Bank could “promote a de-facto boycott of Israel,” senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D – N.Y.) and Ted Cruz (R – Texas) on Monday released an open letter (.pdf), which was signed by...

Iranian state media reports that the regime has stopped dismantling inactive centrifuges at two uranium enrichment plants, Reuters wrote on Tuesday. “The (dismantling) process stopped with a warning,” Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the National Security Council, was quoted as saying by the ISNA student news agency. Only decommissioned centrifuges were...

The organizers of a Kristallnacht commemoration in the city of Umeå, Sweden, didn’t invite the local Jewish community because it was expected to be an “unwelcoming or unsafe situation for them” due to the efforts of anti-Israel activists, The Daily Beast reported Monday. “Umeå Against Nazism” is set to take...