The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Western powers are scaling back their demands for Iranian disclosure about the possible military dimensions (PMDs) of its nuclear program. According to diplomats close to the negotiations, Iranian refusal to comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) probes into the PMDs...

In his column on Wednesday, Thomas Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, retreated from his previously articulated position that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. In this, he mirrored a similar shift made by President Barack Obama. On Wednesday, Friedman wrote: The Obama team’s best argument for...

A coalition of Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, launched airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early today, The Washington Post reports: The strikes were a startling turn of events that came as the Houthis, in control of Yemen’s capital for months, barreled south toward the coastal city of...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned to Switzerland early Thursday to begin a renewed round of talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as the two make a push for an outline agreement in advance of an agreed-upon March 31 deadline. This, after a day that saw Saudi and other forces launch an assault...

While accepting the Humanitarian Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual dinner last night, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein called on Jews to fight back against anti-Semitism “and kick these guys in the ass,” The Hollywood Reporter reported. Weinstein, 63, then went off-script to speak about his father, who was a...

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen captured secret American documents and then passed that information along to Iran, a report by the Los Angeles Times revealed today. The news comes amid significant gains by the Houthis, including the capture of an air base used by United States forces, as well as forcing the U.S.-backed president...

The Kingdom of Jordan has signed a $10 billion deal with Russia to build its first nuclear power plant. Reuters reported Tuesday. The deal, signed with Russia’s state-owned nuclear firm Rosatom, envisages the construction of a two-unit power plant at Amra in the north of the kingdom by 2022. “The Russian...

The Palestinian Authority this week will reconsider its relationship with Israel, including its security cooperation with the Jewish state. The Times of Israel reports today: Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, said she supports a comprehensive reappraisal of Palestinian relations with Israel due to what she called the...

After asserting that anti-Semitism is a “core element” of the worldview of Iran’s leaders, New York Times columnist David Brooks asked in a column published today if we need a new approach to confronting Iran. In the Middle East, anti-Semitism has the feel of a deranged theoretical system for making sense of a world...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is denying that Qods Force commander Gen. Qassem Suleimani said that Iran seeks to control Jordan, just as it controls Iraq and Lebanon. Iran has also removed the report of Suleimani’s remarks from the Iranian Students’ News Agency website. Al Masdar reported on Monday: Eralier on...