Reuters reported Tuesday night that efforts by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) to force Iran to account for the so-called possible military dimensions (PMD) of its atomic program – efforts that U.S. officials, including President Barack Obama, had repeatedly emphasized are aimed at forcing the Islamic republic to meet its...

Egypt has taken the first step towards revoking the citizenship of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar, according to a report appearing on Monday. The Times of Israel reported: Major General Hussein al-Ridi, an assistant to the interior minister for immigration and citizenship issues, told Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya that a request...

The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that a leading figure in Israel’s defense establishment warns of “a storm, on the horizon” regarding the security situation in the Middle East. Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, the director of political-military affairs at the Defense Ministry, reiterated the main strategic threat facing Israel in the near term: Iran’s...

American singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams has brought a smile to the faces of millions of people around the world with his song Happy – including in Iran, until the authorities there reportedly arrested young people who filmed themselves dancing to the tune. National TV channel IRIB broadcast a report May 20...

The House of Representatives on Monday voted to give the Congressional Gold Medal to Israel’s outgoing president, Shimon Peres. The bill, HR 2939, which was co-sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA), would confer the medal, one of the highest civilian honors in the United States, on Peres, who...

In her deeply personal account of  living in Israel’s most cosmopolitan city, Getting Home: Young Anglos Find Themselves in Transcendent Tel Aviv, Miranda Früm explains why the city draw her contemporaries and how it keeps them there. Tel Aviv is an island of lost toys—all of us from near and...

Writing at the Israeli business oriented website Globes today, Norman Bailey writes that the recent election of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India “looks promising for Israel.” Bailey, a professor at the University of Haifa, attributed Modi’s success as governor of India’s Gujarat state to reducing governmental interference in...

State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki on Monday “reject[ed] the apparent use of unprovoked violence against [Turkish] demonstrators and protesters and urged accountability,” after a weekend in which the death toll of the Soma mining disaster in Turkey rose to over three hundred confirmed victims. CNN reported over the weekend that...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights assessed on Monday that over 162,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict – with thousands more missing, presumably captured or kidnapped by the Bashar al-Assad regime – as divisions within the opposition camp deepened worries that the West was showing insufficient...

The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Critical Threats Project on Friday conveyed remarks from an Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander declaring that the Syrian conflict is an extension of Iran’s war with the America. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Malayer Unit Commander Col. Mohammad Eskandari said “IRGC commanders have prepared and equipped...