A Congressional vote to disapprove of the nuclear deal with Iran will not lead to war, Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote in an analysis Monday. First, Iran is unlikely to respond to congressional disapproval by enriching uranium with reckless abandon and thereby validating the skeptics who...

A group including three Congressmen was harassed as they toured the Temple Mount, The Jerusalem Post reported today. Reps. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Keith Rothfus (R-Pa.), and Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) were visiting Israel as part of a trip organized by the Israel Allies Foundation. Jenkins’ wife Elizabeth was also in the group....

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has sent a envoy to Tehran in hopes of boosting ties with Iran, The Times of Israel reported today. PA President Mahmoud Abbas sent Ahmad Majdalani, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, to Iran, where he met with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Majdalani...

Companies and nations considering making an “unseemly rush” to open commercial ties with Iran in the wake of last month’s nuclear deal should take note of the ordeal of detained Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian before commencing business with the Islamic Republic, an editorial in the Post warned today. Iran is No. 130 out of 189...

The nuclear deal with Iran will further enrich the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by freeing the organization through which he built his personal fortune from international sanctions, Jonathan Schanzer, a former Treasury Department official who is now the vice-president of research for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies (FDD), and...

More than 60% of Americans distrust Iran, and a plurality believes that the Islamic Republic got the better part of the nuclear deal with the West, a poll (.pdf) released today by Monmouth University showed. Four-in-ten (41%) say Iran got more of what it wanted from this deal, while just 14% feel the U.S. came...

A letter written by 29 prominent American scientists in support of the recent nuclear deal with Iran fails to address political aspects of the deal or ambiguities in the wording of the deal, Emily Landau, a leading nuclear nonproliferation expert, wrote in an analysis today in The Times of Israel....

Among the individuals who will be freed from international sanctions under the terms of the nuclear deal between Iran and the West is Anis Naccache, a former lieutenant of of legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal and attempted assassin of Shahpour Bakhtiar, Iran’s last Shah-era prime minister. Bakhtiar’s nephew, Hooman Bakhtiar, criticized this...

A senior IDF source has recently acknowledged the existence of an armored vehicle that has been in operation since the early 1980s, according to an analysis published Thursday in the authoritative Jane’s Defense Weekly. The source described how the IDF refitted an obsolete tank to fire the guided Tamuz missile in 1982....

An Israeli man was stabbed and wounded by a Palestinian terrorist at a gas station off of Israel’s Route 443 on Sunday evening, The Jerusalem Post reports. The Palestinian attacker was shot and killed on the scene by security personnel, with the IDF saying that several other unidentified suspects were involved in...