Israeli officials are adding their voices to those of U.S., E.U., and U.N. officials accusing Iran of using negotiations to stall for time as it develops clandestine elements of its atomic program widely believed to be linked to weaponization.  The talks’ failure was unsurprising to members of the P5+1,  a senior Israeli official...

Palestinian jihadists from the Gaza Strip are traveling to Syria to fight, putting themselves on one side of the three-sided, two-year proxy war that has pitted Sunni opposition forces against the Iran-backed Damascus regime against regional Kurdish groups. Their fight is currently against the Bashar al-Assad regime, but their actual...

Talks in Kazakhstan between the P5+1 and Iran have ended without any evident progress. This comes as no surprise, since Iran entered the talks with a posture described by analysts as “defiant.”  Reports indicate that Iran emerged from the talks upbeat. Going in, Western expectations were described as low, and despite...

The Telegraph has published images showing that Iran has activated the heavy-water production plant in its Arak complex. Heavy water is necessary to operate nuclear reactors capable of producing plutonium, which Tehran could then process further to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The published images show a cloud of steam that...

Fighting between the Free Syrian Army and the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah appears to have escalated. The organization, which has gone all-in on propping up Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, now finds itself entangled on behalf of Iran in the regional proxy war raging inside Syria. A YouTube channel known to...

Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps are currently in the Gaza Strip, high-level Palestinian security sources tell The Tower. The Iranians, according to our security sources, are experts in missile production, and are in Gaza to help Hamas and Islamic Jihad develop long-range missiles. Israeli security and political officials declined...

The banner hanging in the mourners’ tent at the Jaradat home, in the Hebron-area village of Sa’ir, said it all. On one side appeared Yasser Arafat in military garb, and on the other, Arafat Jaradat, the 30-year-old Palestinian prisoner who died this weekend while being detained in Israel. Scrawled under...

Taking into account the global nonproliferation regime, the effect of sanctions on Iran, and the internal political situations in Iran, the New York Times evaluates the prospects for a breakthrough in today’s P5+1 talks in Kazakhstan and deems them… not great: When Iran’s nuclear negotiating team sits down with its Western...

Holocaust denying Gilad Atzmon – identified by The Atlantic as a “jazz saxophonist who lives in London and who has a side gig disseminating the wildest sort of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” – is blasting anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS) supporters, who are in turn criticizing British MP George Galloway for...

Almost four months have passed since the end of Operation Pillar of Defense, and  Southern Israel is learning to live under new circumstances with which it’s scarcely familiar: quiet from the Gaza Strip. This time it’s not a just a fragile period of calm in which the odd Qassam rocket or...