Noting that “Iran’s security apparatus has tightened around domestic opposition in a sign of the regime’s growing self-confidence,” Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, former general manager of the Saudi TV network Al Arabiya, argued in a column Thursday in A Sharq Al Awsat that a nuclear agreement with the West will strengthen Iran’s hardliners, During the...

The Czech Republic stopped Iran from making a major purchase of equipment that could be used in its nuclear program, Reuters reported Wednesday. Some details of the attempted purchase were described in the latest annual report of an expert panel for the United Nations Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee, which has...

Hezbollah has embedded its significant terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanese villages, risking the lives of thousands of civilians in the event of another war against Israel, according to a senior Israeli military official quoted in The New York Times Wednesday. Viewed from the air, Muhaybib looks like a typical southern...

A bill prohibiting the Illinois state pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel won unanimous approval in a State House of Representatives committee and will move forward for consideration by the whole house, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported today. The bill on Wednesday was unanimously approved by the...

Decrying “resurgent” anti-Semitism globally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that modern anti-Semitism primarily targets Israel at the fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. “Today there is no doubt that we are living in an age of...

As President Barack Obama is making his case for a nuclear deal with Iran, a former Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, is arguing that the deal will have the opposite effect of what the president intends by “open[ing] the door” to nuclear proliferation, The New York Times reported today. “Whatever...