The Iranians continue to show signs of inflexibility in the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in comments to reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York, said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was “not very precise” about Tehran’s willingness to compromise...

Sen. Harry Reid (D – Nev.) announced his retirement today and backed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) to succeed him as Senate Minority Leader. The news comes one day after Schumer signed as co-sponsor of a bill to require legislative review of any Iran nuclear deal agreed to by...

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and BlueStar Indexes issued a new stock index, a “Start-up Nation Index,” called TA -BIGITech, that will track Israeli tech stocks, regardless of which stock exchange they are listed on, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. “As you know, there aren’t that many Israeli tech stocks on...

A range of media outlets blasted the Obama administration on Thursday and Friday over the White House’s Middle East policy in the broadest sense, arguing that the increasingly chaotic region is in a downward spiral due, in part, to missteps by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team. The various conflicts engulfing...

Iran’s nuclear program is vulnerable to both military attack and economic pressure, Middle East expert Lee Smith argued in an essay that appears in the current issue of The Weekly Standard. While Smith acknowledged that “you can’t bomb knowledge,” or, in other words, make Iranian nuclear scientists forget their technical...

In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, the Senate unanimously passed a proposal put forward by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Thursday that would re-impose sanctions on Iran if Tehran was found to be in noncompliance with any nuclear agreement. The vote was 100-0. The nonbinding language is grounded in sections of the...

In Congressional testimony two weeks ago, retired Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn stated that the United States is “at war with violent and extreme Islamists (both Sunni and Shia) and we must accept and face this.” It is time to make a choice—push, before we are pushed. But the United...

Emergency relief teams from the Israeli relief agency IsraAID are bringing additional food, water, and other aid to starving citizens of the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, after it was ravaged by a category 5 cyclone earlier this month. The archipelago, which has a population of nearly 300,000 scattered over 65...

The Associated Press has reported that the United States is considering allowing Iran to continue to operate hundreds of centrifuges at Fordow, an underground nuclear complex outside of the city of Qom. The Iranians would reportedly be able to feed elements such as zinc, xenon, or germanium at the site, rather than...

Tensions between Arab states and Iran, which erupted into a hot war overnight in Yemen with a Saudi-led military offensive against the Iranian-backed Houthi militants, are hanging over the ongoing negotiations between the P5+1 nations and Tehran in Lausanne, Switzerland. The talks, which revolve around Iran’s nuclear program, are expected...