A top Iranian think tanker closely associated with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is accusing Jews of using witchcraft to undermine stability and solidarity inside the Islamic republic: “The Jews are currently subjecting us to an unprecedented trial,” [Mehdi] Taeb said, according to a translation provided by the Middle East...

A Palestinian terrorist today stabbed to death an Israeli father of five at a hitchhiking post in the West Bank. The attacker had been released from Israeli custody six months ago, after serving a three year prison sentence for trying to injure and kill Israelis with rocks. The victim was...

A Saturday article in the Washington Post paints a grim picture of the Iranian opposition as the country gears up for its June 14th elections: As Iran prepares to elect a new president, the anti-establishment energy that drove violent protests four years ago has disappeared, quashed by the heavy-handed crackdown...

Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of Iran’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, warned this weekend that any Western move to assist forces seeking the overthrow of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad would trigger a regional war that would engulf Israel. Iran had previously declared that Tehran would treat any attack on Syria as...

Echoing comments he made last week to the effect that Israel can successfully degrade Iran’s atomic program, former head of Israeli Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin told a Jerusalem Post conference this weekend that Israel could handle the aftermath of such a strike. Yadlin’s comments came after a similar evaluation provided...

A Pentagon report released last Thursday indicates that Iran could have ballistic missiles capable of hitting the U.S. as early as 2015. The analysis – driven by intelligence regarding North Korean, Chinese, and Russian assistance to the Islamic republic – constitutes a reassesment of previous, more skeptical U.S. assessments: A...

A Israeli air strike on Gaza Strip terror facilities Sunday failed to stop renewed Palestinian rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled territory. Palestinians launched rockets at Israeli civilians on Saturday and again on Monday, and now Israeli officials are warning that the Jewish state may need to take further action to...

The Syrian army has begun transfering portions of the country’s chemical weapons arsenal to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, according to an Israeli opposition figure. If confirmed – and Israeli defense officials quoted by the Associated Press and by Israeli sources considered the assessment premature – the development would mark...

Another wave of resignations has hit Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government, with high-ranking justice and finance officials announcing in recent days that they were quitting. Egypt’s justice minister recently resigned over Islamist efforts to “cleanse” the Egyptian judiciary of judges seen as opposed to the country’s Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi: Ahmed...

An Iranian man arrested in connection with last year’s botched attack on Israeli diplomats in Thailand is telling officials that – rather than being involved in a terror plot – he was trying to dispose of the two homemade bombs in his possession when they exploded. Saeid Moradi testified along with...