Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani launched a strong attack on his political rivals this week, warning that widespread corruption endangered the Islamic Republic and implying that the centralized power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a major source of this corruption. “Continuation of corruption, expansion of corruption and deepening of corruption means...

A report published by Foreign Policy on Monday indicating that Tehran was caught breaching sanctions in order to advance its plutonium work is likely to deepen concerns in Washington at a time when the administration’s handling of the negotiations has been called into question by lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The...

Blogger “Elder of Ziyon” published a translated interview with Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid yesterday. The interview with Eid was originally conducted in Hebrew by Ishai Friedman and was published on his blog. One of the central subjects of the interview was a supposed Palestinian boycott of Israel and...

The mass exodus of 380 million sterile flies from Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu to Split, Croatia is meant to help reduce the population of fruit flies in that country’s citrus fruit orchards. The flies underwent a sterilization process at the Bio-Bee lab’s radioactive facilities, located on the kibbutz. The company’s environmentally...

In the wake of a brutal attack on a Jewish couple last week, in which a woman was raped and money was stolen because the assailants “were sure [their targets] had money since they are Jewish,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazenueve said at a rally yesterday that fighting anti-Semitism was a “national...

The premise of the Obama administration’s approach to negotiations with Iran is flawed, according to an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post. The op-ed was written by Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense during the George W. Bush administration; Dennis Ross, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama; and Ray...

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to the Pentagon’s top post, replacing Chuck Hagel, who stepped down from the position last month. Carter, who served as assistant secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, is perceived to be particularly strong on nuclear non-proliferation...

A day after allegations of Israeli strikes in Syria, speculation concerning the circumstances of the attacks point to an Israeli interception of a missile stockpile en route to Hezbollah terrorists. Syrian television claimed that the Israeli military hit targets near Damascus on December 8. The regime of Bashar al-Assad rushed...

The United States has accused Iran of purchasing prohibited materials for its heavy water reactor according to a report today in Foreign Policy written by longtime United Nations correspondent Colum Lynch. The U.S. allegations were detailed in a confidential Nov. 7 report by an eight-member panel of experts that advises a...

Interpol issued “red notice” arrest warrants for more than 40 senior Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated figures over the weekend, including the head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. A red notice seeks “the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful...