The State Department was pressed on Tuesday over mounting evidence that Iranian crude export violations – in which the Iranians have for the last six months exceeded the cap of 1 million barrels per day (bpd) set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – will not be balanced...

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday revealed that it had obtained evidence indicating that Iran “has kept active and intact its core team of weaponization researchers” as international criticism deepened over what appears to be a deliberate campaign by Tehran to skirt core obligations regarding the disclosure of possible military...

The Washington Post late last week carried calls from a bipartisan group of veteran diplomats and analysts – Eric Edelman, Dennis Ross, and Ray Takeyh, respectively a former undersecretary of defense during the George W. Bush administration, a special assistant to President Obama, and a senior fellow at the Council...

With the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) vote over criticizing Israel scheduled for this coming Sunday, the Washington Free Beacon today reported on a recently discovered listserv where a number of members of the organization engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric. The Free Beacon observes: The highly charged rhetoric about Israel, revealed last week...

In the May 2014 issue of  The Tower Magazine, Ben Cohen examined The Deep UN: Inside the Secret Infrastructure of Hate. While, as Cohen previously noted, the United Nations pursues some worthy goals, it nonetheless possesses “a network of extremely well-funded UN structures and offices” that “continue operating as the engine of the...

Language attached to the $600 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) report may deepen American-Israeli cooperation in developing and producing missile defense technology – with the provision aiming to ensure “coproduction of parts and components [for the Iron Dome system]… in a manner...

The New York Times reported yesterday that, during his brief trip to Israel, Pope Francis made an unprecedented stop and laid a wreath at the tomb of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl. On Mount Herzl, after the Pope visited a memorial to victims of terror, including those killed...

A wide-ranging interview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Bloomberg View columnist Jeffrey Goldberg – in which the Israeli leader emphasized Jerusalem’s determination to either bilaterally or unilaterally untangle the Jewish state from Palestinians living in the West Bank – triggered a wave of social media discussion Friday morning,...

TIME Magazine’s chief foreign affairs correspondent Michael Crowley on Friday assessed that the policy debate in Washington over how to approach the Syrian war may soon shift back to “talk of military action,” as Obama administration officials “brac[ed] for confirmation – in weeks or even days – that chemical warfare...

The Wall Street Journal revealed on Friday that the United States is considering reopening a bilateral diplomatic channel with Iran – through which negotiations would be conducted by what the outlet described as a “secret” team: The White House secretly used this bilateral track last year to reach an interim...