In an apparent reversal, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said that it would not deliver S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Iran in the “near future.” The Times of Israel reported today: Russia will not deliver the S-300 missile defense system to Iran in the near future, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was...

Responding to a recent remark by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif boasting of Iran’s “tolerance” of Jews, Shahrzad Elghanayan stated in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post that the current regime in Tehran “can’t take credit for it.” Shahrzad, who is Jewish, noted that the revolutionary government executed her grandfather following a twenty-minute...

Chinese estimates of the size of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal have increased in recent years, and are now higher than American estimates, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. The latest Chinese estimates, relayed in a closed-door meeting with U.S. nuclear specialists, showed that North Korea may already have...

Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired abaGada digital performance marketing agency for a reported price of $60 -$90 million, marking its first Israeli acquisition. abaGada will become part of Dentsu Aegis Network and serve as its iProspect branch in Israel. “This acquisition marks another important step in the continued growth of...

Warning that the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran is weakening friends and strengthening enemies, former State Department official Aaron David Miller observed Wednesday in a commentary written for CNN that in the battle for influence in the Middle East, the United States is being “outfoxed, not outgunned” by Iran. Miller contrasted Iran’s...

Visibly moved by the honor, Lucy Aharish, an Arab-Israeli news anchor, was the first of fourteen Israelis to light a ceremonial torch to mark the beginning of Israeli Independence Day celebrations, The Times of Israel reported today. Aharish was teary-eyed when she said she was lighting the torch “for all human...

“Everything has to do with Everything” sounds like the title of some obscure New Age manifesto. In fact, it’s the headline on a disjointed article by Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in which she claims, in essence, that an international Jewish conspiracy was supporting the efforts of Alberto Nisman,...

In a closed session with journalists last week held in honor of Israel Independence Day, for which The Tower was in attendance, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin shared his pride in being an Israeli and in Israel’s status as a Jewish and democratic state. I must say I was born nine years before...

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was seriously injured in a March airstrike in western Iraq by the American-led coalition forces, The Guardian reported Tuesday. In recent weeks, rumors have circulated about al-Baghdadi’s death, but as of yet they have been unproven. Regardless of the rumors, al-Baghdadi’s disappearance from the...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke out strongly on the question of the Armenian genocide in a closed session with journalists held last week in Jerusalem in honor of Israel Independence Day. The comments, made in response to a question posed by The Tower and cleared for publication today, will do...