Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that the Islamic Republic intends to send a “fleet of warships” to the Atlantic Ocean, The Times of Israel reported Thursday, citing Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. “Our warships will soon berth at ports in the Atlantic Ocean,” Navy Commander Rear Admiral...

Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations investigator of human rights in Iran, called the high rate of executions he monitors an “unprecedented assault on the right to life in Iran,” The New York Times reported Wednesday. His most striking criticism dwelled on what rights advocates have called Iran’s increasing rate of...

Micah Lakin Avni, the son of Richard Lakin, an American-Israeli teacher and peace activist who died earlier this week due to injuries sustained in a Palestinian terror attack two weeks ago, said that his father was the victim of “incitement and hate,” The New York Times reported Thursday. My father...

Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani admitted that the Islamic Republic had initially launched its nuclear program in order to have the option of developing nuclear weapons, according to a translation of an interview published Wednesday by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). As I have said, when we...

The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the scandal-ridden UN body that works with Palestinian refugees, spoke Monday at an event sponsored by the UK-based charity Interpal, which was designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing the Palestinian terror group Hamas. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness spoke at an event for...

A Hamas official went on the terrorist organization’s TV station to inform Palestinians that Allah had created man “to plunge their knives in the chests and bellies of the enemies,” The Times of Israel reported today. In an address broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 19, former Gaza interior minister Fathi...

The Israeli startups AseptoRay and Chakratec took top honors in last month’s Israeli finals in the 2015 Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition, the world’s largest green technology competition. They will represent Israel in the international round to be held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 16-22, in Silicon Valley. Encompassing 24...

Over 100 German soldiers arrived in Israel earlier this month to participate in the largest joint military exercise ever held between the two countries, Ha’aretz reported on Wednesday. The Israeli and German armies have conducted joint exercises in urban combat in recent weeks — the largest joint training ever between...

The latest report issued by Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, highlights a variety of harsh punishments meted out by the Iranian regime, including executions, floggings, amputations, and even blinding, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of...

The British government swiftly denounced a letter calling for a boycott of Israel that was signed by 343 British university professors and published as an advertisement in The Guardian on Tuesday, reiterating that London “firmly opposes” boycotts of Israel, The Jewish Chronicle reported. The government’s opposition was expressed by David...