Unfreezing billions of dollars worth of Iranian assets, a likely consequence of the nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic, will have the effect of exacerbating Iran’s “systematic, 35-year campaign of regional meddling, destabilization, and extension of … influence” that threatens the Middle East, David Rothkopf, editor of Foreign Policy, argued Thursday. How...

At a meeting between President Barack Obama and American-Jewish leaders this week, one of the participants said that the president “didn’t dismiss” Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel, but also that “he just didn’t really address it,” Lee Smith reported Thursday for Tablet. “It was one of the tensest meetings I can ever remember,” said...

A senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, doubled down on one of Iran’s demands included in a “fact sheet” published by Iran’s parliament according to a report Wednesday in the semi-official Fars News Agency. Ali Akbar Velayati, Khamenei’s top adviser for international affairs said that the lifting of sanctions...

A patented smartphone technology, originally created for the blind, has now been built into a steering-wheel-mounted controller and app to help sighted drivers use smartphone apps on the road without looking at their handsets. The team behind RayGo, Project RAY, previously developed the world’s first smartphone for people with visual...

As a coalition of Middle Eastern countries continue to conduct airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, the group, led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have announced ground exercises in Saudi territory (Arabic link). Some experts believe that holding the exercise at this time suggests that a ground intervention in Yemen is...

Iran’s parliament released its own “factsheet” incorporating the demands added by Ayatollah Khamenei in response to the Lausanne nuclear “framework” statement. The full April 9 Khamenei speech slamming the US as a ‘cheater and a liar’ has been translated by MEMRI. Here are excerpts [emphasis added]: All the problems [will...

After the Russian government announced earlier this week that it was lifting its internal ban on shipping the S-300 missile systems to Iran, an analysis in The Daily Beast published Wednesday asserted that Iran, like Russia, would be able to use those systems as offensive weapons, in violation of UN...

A top State Department official said Tuesday that the United States is aware of increased Iranian involvement in the civil war currently taking place in Yemen, and is “’looking at ways’ to ensure a long-standing United Nations Security Council arms embargo on Iran is enforced,” The Hill reported yesterday. Gerald...

The next 9/11-style terror attack will be perpetrated by hackers infiltrating an air traffic control system or other critical infrastructure, according to Col. (res.) Dr. Gabi Siboni, director of the Cyber Security Program at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). The Times of Israel reported  on Siboni’s assessment Wednesday. “Computer hackers...

Speaking at a ceremony commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a speech delivered Wednesday evening at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum that the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran showed that the West had not learned the lessons of the Holocaust, Ynet reported: The Israeli prime minister...