Although the West and Iran agreed to extend nuclear negotiations a week past the June 30 deadline, major differences still exist between the two sides, USA Today reported Tuesday. Iran has publicly rejected allowing international nuclear inspectors into military sites, and has demanded immediate sanctions relief. According to a fact sheet released by...

If the administration makes a bad nuclear deal with Iran, Congress should reject it, Josh Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed for The Miami Herald Tuesday. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. After noting that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected a number of conditions that would...

The United States and its partners must re-establish strategic deterrence in order to ensure that the emerging nuclear deal with Iran preserves regional security, argued an analysis written Monday by Gen. (ret) Michael Herzog, an international fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. After noting that elements of the deal leave...

Update, July 1: Following the publication of the piece below rebutting JTA reporter Ron Kampeas’ inaccurate claims, JTA substantively revised its account concerning the timing of Israel’s aid operation in Haiti. After it became clear that a needs assessment team led by Ambassador Amos Radian was in place in Haiti on...

As the P5+1 nations and Iran have negotiated to reach a deal by the June 30 deadline (recently pushed to July 7), a number of news stories were published that showed Iran to be outmaneuvering the West in the negotiations. Iran has sought advantages in the negotiations by violating past agreements, and benefited from the West...

The $150 billion “signing bonus” in unfrozen funds that Iran would receive in a nuclear deal will strengthen the hold that its proxy terrorist group Hezbollah has over Lebanon, Lebanese politician Ahmad el-Assaad wrote Monday in an op-ed (Google link) for The Wall Street Journal. El-Assaad noted that Iran is stretched thin due to its support of the...

The desperation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could prompt him to increase the regime’s use of chemical weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) yesterday, citing sources in the American government. Last year, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad let international inspectors oversee the removal of what President Barack Obama called the regime’s...

Human rights activists have added a new dimension of coverage to the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna between the P5+1 global powers and Iran, despite declarations by top American officials that they would prefer not to let human rights issues interfere with sealing a nuclear deal. The families of Americans jailed in...

Consulting a number of Israeli policy-makers and experts, the BBC explained in a report on Monday why Israel fears a nuclear Iran. A retired officer from Israel’s secret service, Mossad, told us that issues related to Iran take up most of the time and energy of Israel’s intelligence services. That...

In the wake of admissions that the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran will pass the June 30 deadline, the Associated Press (AP) published an analysis today that explored a number of possibilities world powers could pursue should the talks fail. The analysis judges that a military response is unlikely, but...