The State Department’s 2014 Country Reports on Terrorism (.pdf) once again listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and called the Islamic Republic a “proliferation concern,” according to an analysis of the report written by Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall and published today by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). Chapter...

In his pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama could be “headed down the wrong path,” possibly allowing Iran “to further threaten Middle Eastern stability, jeopardize American interests, or destroy our strongest ally,” Congresswoman Kristi Noem wrote Sunday in an op-ed published in the Black Hills Pioneer....

Philip Hammond and Laurent Fabius, respectively the top diplomats of Britain and France, called for Iran to submit to verification of its nuclear program to ensure that it is peaceful, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. “Britain wants a robust and verifiable deal with Iran that ensures that its nuclear programme in...

Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said that there is “no daylight” between his position on the emerging nuclear deal with Iran and the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The Telegraph published today. If the US Administration hoped that Mr Herzog might dilute Israel’s visceral suspicion of...

The effectiveness of a nuclear deal with Iran could be undercut by “bureaucratic neglect—or a political desire to look the other way,” argued an editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal published today. The piece was commenting on a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that the State Department “had failed to provide...

Israel and the World Bank signed their second agreement last week that will focus on sharing water expertise and industry best practices with developing countries. The Israeli Ministry of Economy committed $500,000 to the World Bank Group’s Water Global Practice as part of the deal. “We are proud to join...

The United States will be housing American troops at the same Iraqi base that Iran-backed Shiite militias will be using, Josh Rogin and Eli Lake reported for Bloomberg View today. Two senior administration officials confirmed to us that U.S. soldiers and Shiite militia groups are both using the Taqqadum military...

A report released by a controversial commission of inquiry appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) equated Hamas’ terror attacks against civilians with Israel’s self defense against Gaza-launched rockets, The Jerusalem Post reported today. Both Israelis and Palestinians may have committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza war,...

The UN Human Rights Council, many of whose state members are world champions in violating the moral principles the Council is obligated to protect, issued its Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on the 2014 Gaza War today. The eighth such attempt since 2002 to single out Israel as guilty of war...

The new United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report on the Gaza war says: 27. International law does not require the continuous presence of troops of the occupying forces in all areas of a territory, in order for it to be considered as being occupied. In the Naletelic case, the ICTY...