Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported today that an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander boasted that Syrian missile factories, which help prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, are built by Iran. Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said Syria’s missile-production...

Russia and Iran announced a deal today that will provide Iran with up to eight nuclear reactors. The reactors will be built by Russia’s state nuclear agency, Rosatom. Agence France-Presse reports: The so-called Bushehr Phase II consists of two reactors at the same Persian Gulf coast site as the existing 1,000...

A five-minute-long video (Persian link) circulated on the Internet among Iranian activists shows the Iranian regime’s masked police forces publicly abusing and beating a group of young Iranians while parading them through the streets, handcuffed in the back of an open vehicle. The incident took place in the streets of...

For an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal (Google link), Bret Stephens interviewed Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, on Iran’s strategy for evading the consequences of violating its nuclear agreements. After listing many of the technical details that need to be addressed by a future agreement, Stephens writes: As...

Monday marked one of the bloodiest days in Israel in recent months, with the stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, the car attack and stabbing at Alon Shvut, and more violent incidents in Kafr Kana and other Arab communities in Israel. Sergeant Almog Shiloni, 20, from Modi’in, killed in Tel Aviv,...

For Johannah Jolson — in the words of fellow Brit William Shakespeare — the play’s the thing. In August, the 28-year-old Tel Aviv resident launched the English National Theatre of Israel (ENTI), an endeavor meant to make professional English-language productions available nearly every night of the week in the Holy...

The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that Shurat Hadin, The Israel Law Center, filed a war crimes complaint with the International Criminal Court against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas . Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center filed Monday a war crimes complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor against Palestinian...

The latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), published Friday by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), blasted Tehran for “not provid[ing] any explanations that enable the Agency to clarify the outstanding practical measures,” stoking concerns that Iranian officials may be counting...

Citing a report in a Brazilian newspaper O Globo, The Jerusalem Post reported today that Hezbollah has been smuggling arms to criminal gangs in that country. According to the report in the Rio de Janeiro-based paper, Federal investigators in Brazil have been probing possible ties between Lebanon and criminal gangs in Brazil...

In a confidential document disclosed on Friday, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium has increased significantly over the past two months. According to Reuters: Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium gas has grown by 8 percent to nearly 8.4 tonnes in about two months, U.N. atomic...