Iran could delay inspections of suspicious nuclear sites for longer than the 24 days specified in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), William Tobey, a former deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote Monday in an analysis for Foreign Policy. Tobey explained that snap-back...

An Israeli medical team just returned home from Tanzania after performing life-saving cardiac surgery on ten children and treating hundreds more, The Jerusalem Post reported today. An Israeli delegation of 20 doctors, nurses and medical technicians has returned from Tanzania after performing lifesaving heart surgery on more than 10 local...

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of Iran’s Basij militia, said that the language of the recently concluded nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPOA), shows that the United States holds a “deep grudge” against Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported today. The Basij militia is a...

Two top Iranian government officials have rejected the possibility of international inspectors visiting military sites as part of a nuclear deal. Iranian defense minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, who has been implicated in planning the 1983 bombing of the United States Marines barracks in Beirut, declared that he would not allow inspectors...

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated that the UN Security Council resolution supporting the recent nuclear deal contradicts Iran’s “red lines,” The New York Times reported today. General Jafari’s remarks, reported in an interview with Iran’s Tasnim news agency, appeared to be primarily concerned...

Microsoft is reportedly acquiring Israeli cybersecurity startup Adallom for $320 million, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported Monday. According to the reports, Tel Aviv-based Adallom, currently with about 60 employees, will continue to operate in Israel and will expand to become Microsoft’s cyber-security development headquarters in Israel. If...

Today’s vote by the United Nations Security Council affirming the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal that the Council’s permanent members reached with Iran last week, has been hailed as a means to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. However, it represents a formal departure from the approach that...

The nuclear deal with Iran “concedes an enrichment capacity that is too large; sunset clauses that are too short; a verification regime that is too leaky; and enforcement mechanisms that are too suspect,” Eric Edelman, a former Defense Department official, and Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow on the Council for Foreign...

President Barack Obama’s decision to enact a policy of engagement with Iran, rather than opposing its regional ambitions outside of the nuclear deal, will likely lead to an escalation of Iranian aggression, Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jackson Diehl wrote in an op-ed today. Diehl contrasted Obama’s Iranian negotiation strategy with how President Ronald...

Cut off from many of its preferred smuggling routes, the terror organization Hamas had recently been smuggling supplies to rebuild its rocket arsenal and network of terror tunnels through Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing, Avi Issacharoff of The Times of Israel reported today. Excavating tunnels requires — along with working hands...