The report by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the 2014 Gaza conflict, released earlier this week, is substantiated in large part by the allegations of political advocacy NGOs (non-governmental organizations). One such group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), was cited 16 times. PHR-I is an Israeli organization that has a...

An open letter to the White House signed by a bipartisan group of experts, including five former Obama administration officials, called on the United States to strengthen the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The letter enumerated five elements that need to be strengthened to prevent Iran...

A classified annex to the emerging nuclear deal reveals that the P5+1 powers have promised to provide Iran with advanced nuclear technology, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. To that end, the draft, entitled “Civil Nuclear Cooperation,” promises to supply Iran with light-water nuclear reactors instead of its nearly completed...

The emerging deal with Iran will likely have the opposite effect of what President Barack Obama intended, spurring nuclear proliferation in the Middle East rather than curtailing it, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen told Bloomberg reporters on Wednesday. “The administration’s intent was to have a counter-proliferation program. And the...

The WikiLeaks organization released a top secret memo from the Saudi embassy in Khartoum alleging that Iran had shipped nuclear equipment, including advanced centrifuges, to Sudan in 2012, The Times of Israel reported today. The memo, dated February 2012 and marked as “very secret,” was leaked last week by the WikiLeaks...

In order to finalize a deal ensuring that Iran will be prevented from developing nuclear weapons, the West needs to focus on “sharpening the consequences should Tehran fail to accept the P5+1 proposals,” according an analysis published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. The piece, written by Michael Singh, managing director of the Washington Institute...

A bipartisan group of former senators has banded to highlight the dangers of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Politico reported Tuesday. The latest salvo lands Wednesday, when the American Security Initiative, a bipartisan group chaired by former senators, unleashes an ad blitz, urging eight senators from both parties to...

Iran’s breakout time under the emerging nuclear deal could be less than the Obama administration’s estimate of one year, according to Alan J. Kuperman, associate professor and coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas in Austin. Writing in The New York Times yesterday, Kuperman argued...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he would refuse to allow a halt his nation’s nuclear research, and demanded an immediate end to sanctions upon signing a nuclear deal with the West, Reuters reported Tuesday. “Freezing Iran’s Research and Development (R&D) for a long time like 10 or 12...

Leading international cyber experts, policymakers, researchers, security officials, and diplomats are in Tel Aviv this week for the Fifth Annual International Cybersecurity Conference. The meeting is part of the National Cyber Week 2015 yearly event. Israel is known as a center of excellence for cybersecurity thanks to its defence expertise...