Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and one of its chief nuclear negotiators, said that no nuclear inspectors will be allowed to enter the Islamic Republic unless previously approved by its intelligence agency, the Washington Free Beacon reported yesterday. “Any individual, out of IAEA’s Inspection group, who is not approved...

Iranian officials warned Yukiya Amano, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that he would lose their trust in the event that he discloses the content of the Tehran regimes’ secret agreements with the international nuclear watchdog, according to a report Monday in Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. Behrouz Kamalvandi,...

Despite proclamations that the nuclear deal with the P5+1 powers represents “a turning point for Iran,” Hamid Yazdan Panah, a lawyer and human rights activist, wrote that “the facts on the ground” show an increased rate of executions in the Islamic Republic, in a commentary published by Reuters today. Since...

A congressional rejection of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would not lead to war or diplomatic isolation of the United States, as the Obama administration has warned, just as similar warnings proved incorrect about stronger sanctions, former Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in an op-ed published Friday in...

Israel is the land where one can “see a Muslim woman, a gay couple kissing, and a Hassid sharing the same small space,” Haisam Hassanein, an Egyptian-born student, said in his recent commencement speech at Tel Aviv University, which was published in The Jerusalem Post yesterday. Hassanein, who came with his family...

Iranian dissidents fear that the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 powers and Tehran will free the regime to treat them more harshly, Saeed Ghasseminejad, a former Iranian political prisoner who is currently an associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an op-ed published yesterday in the...

A group of 53 Iranian dissidents wrote a letter, published Friday by The Daily Beast, outlining their opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran and arguing that the agreement’s failure to hold Tehran accountable for its human rights abuses, both domestic and international, will only empower the Islamic regime and...

Sen. Jeff Flake (R – Ariz.) will vote against the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), despite being lobbied “heavily” by President Obama and his administration, Politico reported Saturday. It doesn’t look like President Barack Obama will get to claim “bipartisan support” for...

Iran has secretly amassed significant reserves – as much as 50 million barrels – of processed oil on tankers in the Persian Gulf, which Tehran is ready to export as soon as international sanctions are lifted, CNN reported Thursday. Iran claims it’s not stockpiling oil in tankers in the Persian...

Cyber-attacks perpetrated by Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah against Israeli government and military bodies have gotten more sophisticated in the past year, an IDF major stated in an interview Thursday with David Shamah, the technology reporter for The Times of Israel. The major insisted on anonymity for security reasons. “While we’ve had cyber attacks all along, it...