Lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday issued statements indicating broad bipartisan support for congressional oversight of any potential deal with Iran. Yesterday, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), who had earlier in the day been chosen by the House Republican Conference to continue to serve as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been under heavy criticism from a number of prominent Arab writers and journalists after recently claiming that Muslim sailors, not Christopher Columbus, had discovered the Americas. Erdogan, who has been in power in Turkey for more than a decade, stirred up controversy on Saturday when he claimed that the Americas were discovered...

VIENNA – The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN-affiliated watchdog organization, criticized Iran today for its continued refusal to fully cooperate with the agency’s investigation into Iran’s nuclear program. The investigation is to formally determine whether Iran’s nuclear program is to be used to supply military weapons, as has...

In an unsigned editorial yesterday (Google link), the editors of The Wall Street Journal argued that the main obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is not settlements but “the culture of hatred against Jews that is nurtured by Palestinian leaders.” Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas condemned the killings,...

The incidence of strokes and death in the wake of strokes have declined dramatically in the last 24 years, but according to a new study from Israel, the progress is not consistent across all age groups. Researchers from Israel and the United States discovered that while there has been a...

A terror attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood yesterday left five people – four rabbis and a Druze policeman – dead and several others injured Tuesday when two Palestinians entered during morning prayers armed with knives, meat cleavers, and a handgun and attacked worshipers inside. Secretary of State John...

Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) issued a statement yesterday outlining the various requirements he believes are necessary for the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran to be effective: 1. the dismantling—not freezing—of Iran’s illegal nuclear weapons program; 2. institution of intrusive, any-time inspections for all facilities to assure Iranian compliance; 3. a slow process...

Congressman Robert Aderholt (R- Ala.) today called on the administration to support the nation of Azerbaijan, a northern neighbor to Iran. The congressman said Azerbaijan was an important ally of the United States, and noted the country`s strategic location, as well as its support for anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan, AzerTag...

Iranian sources are involved in shady weapon deals with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an Iraqi security source told the Saudi newspaper Okaz (Arabic link). The source said Iranian “agents” are supplying ISIS in Iraq with weapons in exchange for oil. These transactions are alarming Western and...

Washington’s representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna told reporters on Monday that the administration was “disappointed” in Iran’s failure to cooperate with nuclear investigators from the United Nations watchdog. Ambassador Laura Kennedy is one of several U.S. diplomats in Vienna this week — Secretary of State...