Voice of America (VOA) reported last week that Washington was facing renewed concerns from its Arab and Israeli allies over its diplomatic approach toward Iran, amid reemphasized declarations by top Iranian leaders that they will refuse to dismantle any aspects of the Islamic republic’s nuclear program. The dynamics had already reenergized domestic moves to assert a strong...

Israeli radio last week conveyed statements from Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas underlining his oft-reiterated position that he will refuse any condition that requires the Palestinians to recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, even and especially in the context of U.S.-backed final-status negotiations aimed at definitively resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

Reuters last week revealed that “Syria will miss a major deadline next week” in the timeline describing how and when it is to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal. Washington and Moscow had inked the deal as an alternative to impending Western air strikes aimed at punishing Damascus for crossing a red line,...

The Daily Beast on Wednesday described how the Israeli military “launched a sophisticated PR campaign to tell the world why they shouldn’t trust Tehran” in the aftermath of Israeli commandos interdicting an Iranian arms ship carrying advanced missiles bound for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, noting that that apparent “coordinated public relations campaign” stood...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) issued a statement on Wednesday declaring that Palestinian leaders will refuse to make further concessions, after several months in which top Palestinian officials repeatedly rejected efforts by Secretary of State Kerry to achieve such a deal. The Palestinian Authority said in a statement Wednesday, “It is important for you to know...

Iran and Hamas are scrambling to minimize the damage from Israel’s Wednesday interdiction of the Klos-C – a Panamanian-flagged Iranian arms ship carrying advanced missiles bound for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – even as new details emerged throughout Thursday about intelligence operations that preceded the vessel’s capture. The intercepted cargo included M-302 missiles with ranges of...

Controversy continued to build Wednesday and Thursday over reported plans by the Obama administration to circumvent Congressional prerogatives and unilaterally lift sanctions on Iran, amid a converging consensus from pro-Israel and pro-Iran groups that such moves would be either untenable or counterproductive or both. Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies...

Analysts and journalists spent Wednesday assessing the geopolitical, diplomatic, and military significance of the overnight interdiction of an Iranian vessel carrying advanced missiles bound for the Gaza Strip, after reports began to trickle out of the Middle East early in the morning that the Panamanian-flagged Klos-C merchant ship had been boarded by elite Israeli commandos...

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) on Wednesday assessed that “groups on opposite sides of the Iran debate” were converging on the need to give Congress a strong voice in the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran, just days after bipartisan letters to the White House from both the House and the Senate were read as moves...

Hezbollah is bolstering its infrastructure inside Lebanon and has acquired advanced missiles capable of reaching across Israel, according to multiple reports published in recent days in a range of international outlets. The various stories are bound to be read against the backdrop of heightened concerns that any eventual conflagration with...