Iranian Jews who immigrated to Great Neck, New York expressed frustration with the world’s naivete in agreeing to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, The Times of Israel reported today. The Times conducted a series of interviews with members of the community in the run-up to the Congressional vote...

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a “bad agreement” that will leave Israel and the rest of the world dealing with its “dangerous” consequences, Israel’s former national security advisor, Gen. Yaacov Amidror, wrote in an analysis published Wednesday by the Begin and Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. The agreement...

Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, criticized Iran for sentencing Mohammed Ali Taheri, the founder of alternative medicine movements in Iran, to death for the crime of “corruption on earth.”Al-Hussein made his comments in a press release issued today. “Iran’s use of the death penalty has long...

Rep. Ed Royce (R – Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution to disapprove of the nuclear deal reached between the P5+1 nations and Iran, Reuters reported Tuesday. Republican U.S. Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, on Tuesday introduced...

Even if Iran follows the procedures laid out in the recent nuclear deal, it can still “break out” to nuclear weapons capability in as little as six to seven months, not a year as the Obama administration claims, David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, testified...

Three leading members of the House of Representatives – Reps. Steve Israel (D – N.Y.), Nita Lowey (D – N.Y.), and Ted Deutch (D – Fla.) – today became the first three Democratic Jewish members of Congress to go on record opposing the nuclear deal with Iran. Rep. Israel, the chair...

The sanctions regime imposed on Iran for its illicit nuclear program has been destroyed and cannot easily be re-instituted, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Monday. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported: “The structure of the sanctions that the US had built based on the UN Security Council’s...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out the case against the nuclear deal with Iran in a presentation streamed over the internet today. The video is embedded below. After saying that “the deal doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb, it paves it,” Netanyahu discussed the “three fatal flaws” of the deal....

A controversial new anti-Israel curriculum has been “temporarily” pulled from British schools, The Jewish Chronicle reported today. The National Union of Teachers has “temporarily” pulled a new educational resource which aimed to “illustrate the daily struggles experienced by Palestinian children”, following public outcry that it was one-sided and unbalanced. In...

Forces loyal to ousted Yemeni president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi drove Iran-backed Houthi rebels out of Yemen’s largest military base, the BBC reported today. Pro-government forces in Yemen have retaken the country’s largest airbase in a battle with Houthi rebels, a spokesman for the forces told the BBC. Heavy casualties have...