Analysts through the weekend and into Monday continued to trace signs that – per a headline published at the top of one Agence France-Presse (AFP) story – Rouhani’s “honeymoon” with the Iranian public was over amid evidence that he was either unable or unwilling to implement promised social reforms and...

The Washington Examiner on Friday outlined a scenario under which the next war in the Middle East may break out as a result of what the outlet described as competing “Israeli and Lebanese claims over a potentially lucrative plot of [underwater] territory,” with the recently formed Lebanese government set to...

At the same time a report on the incidence of anti-Semitism in Europe was presented, an Israeli man was attacked by six Palestinians in Berlin. On Sunday European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor presented a study of European anti-Semitism (.pdf) for 2013 at Tel Aviv University. The Jerusalem Post highlighted some of Kantor’s remarks during...

Iran’s ground forces unveiled “a new solid-fuel missile with high destructive power” on April 27. The military and government in Tehran maintain their significant array of weapons is only there to protect the country. Tehran has repeatedly assured other nations that its military might poses no threat to other countries,...

A UK newspaper reported on Monday that British aid to the Palestinian Authority helps fund the salaries of convicted terrorists. The Telegraph report is based on research performed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) and shows the value the Palestinian Authority (PA) places on terrorists. It has revealed that under 2004 Palestinian legislation...

A new crisis threatened to undercut American efforts to revive the flat-lining peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians this evening, in the wake of comments made by Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday. In a closed door meeting reported by Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast, Kerry told members of the...

Though he was often hailed as a reformer in the lead-up to his election as Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani’s performance since his inauguration has not brought about a new era of openness in Iran. Despite the continued threat of repression, a number of Iranians showed their solidarity with political prisoners in the...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday described the fallout from what it described as the “first major political defeat” for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a failed campaign by the Rouhani government to convince Iranians to put aside and forgo government assistance programs that had been developed under previous administrations. The campaign had...

A report aired Friday on Israel’s Channel 10 revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had given the green light to negotiators to begin discussing the contours of final borders between Israel and what would become a Palestinian state, among other things: According to Channel 10, while Netanyahu refused Palestinian demands...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani this week urged European leaders to chart an “independent” foreign policy course, the latest in what has become a string of statements from top Iranian leaders suggesting that Washington’s European allies should split from the U.S. in their approach to the Islamic republic: “The miscalculations of...