Bipartisan legislation targeting Hezbollah and its enablers continued this week to wind its way through the Senate, with Al Monitor describing the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014 – introduced by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) – as part of an effort by U.S. lawmakers to...

Reuters on Thursday reported that efforts by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) to clarify issues surrounding the so-called possible military dimensions (PMD) of Iran’s atomic program had – per the outlet’s headline – shown “no sign of breakthrough,” even as the May 15th deadline by which Iran was to have...

Freedom House set Israel’s ranking at “free” in its 2014 report of press rankings released earlier this month, in a marked contrast to the trend that “global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade.” Noting that “Israel enjoys a lively, pluralistic media environment in which press freedom is generally...

As Iran’s economic situation is in temporary downturn and the country continues propping up the Assad regime in Syria, Tehran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah is increasingly feeling the pinch, according to a report in the May 15 edition of The Daily Star Lebanon. The sources also pointed to the huge financial impact...

United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel visiting Israel this week dismissed last week’s Newsweek report accusing Israel of aggressively spying on the United States. Hagel’s reservation further undermines the report’s credibility already hurt by experts’ questions and the reporter’s dubious history. The Times of Israel reported on Hagel’s response when...

Earlier this week, former State Department official Elliott Abrams wrote about the plight of seven Baha’i leaders who have now been jailed by Iran for six years. At the Council on Foreign Relations website, Abrams wrote: They were arrested in 2008 and in 2010 were sentenced to terms of 20...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) faced mounting foreign criticism – and a wave of domestic unrest – on Wednesday for their handling of a mining disaster in the Turkish city of Soma, in which at least 274 people were killed just two...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Japan this week promoting bilateral ties, drew a parallel between Israel and Japan’s challenges with nuclear proliferation, warning on Thursday that Iran was supplying North Korea with nuclear technology. The online news site Japan Today reports: Netanyahu, who is in Japan this week for talks...

The Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday exposed that a recent oil and gas fair held by Iran was attended by at least five companies that have U.S. government contracts, a development that Iran experts viewed with concern. “It is a telling indication of the weakening of the international sanctions regime...

The Daily Beast on Wednesday published details of a new poll by The Israel Project – which the organization formally published later that morning – finding that “over twice as many Americans agree with Israel’s claim that they are not primarily to blame for the failure of the Middle East...