Experts from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog are in Iran and will again seek access to a military complex in the country where it is widely suspected that Iranian nuclear scientists conducted tests related to nuclear detonations. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast expressed opposition to providing the IAEA inspectors access to the Parchin facility,...

American officials on Tuesday strongly condemned recently revealed anti-Jewish slurs made by incumbent Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi calling on Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and describing Israelis as “these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.” Morsi’s comments, made in 2010 while a...

Turkish media outlets are quoting Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz to the effect that Ankara at one point blocked Israeli and Cypriot membership in an international body dedicated to promoting renewable energy. Reporting on the diplomatic gambit, which in some quarters would be greeted as an unreasonable extension of...

With a week left before Israelis vote in the country’s January 22 election, converging polls indicate that the race remains as it has since the election was declared months ago: a center-right bloc anchored by the Likud-Beiteinu slate wielding about a dozen more seats than a fragmented center-left bloc. Prime...

Washington should enhance “constraints on supply of goods Iran needs for its nuclear and missile programs,” the American non-partisan Project on U.S. Middle East Nonproliferation Strategy said in a new report on the Iranian nuclear program. The group emphasizes that Iran’s atomic program violates international law along multiple dimensions, including putting...

IDF officials uncovered an attack tunnel on Monday that opened into Israeli territory near the Israeli community Kibbutz Nir Oz. A similar tunnel was used in the 2006 attack in which Palestinians killed two Israeli soldiers and kidnapped a third Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Another attack through a tunnel could be...

Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad has instructed his commanders to attack Israel and American targets if he is assassinated, according to rumors published in state-linked Iranian press outlets that place Assad at meetings with top commanders. Other reports, this time published in Saudi media, place Assad and his family on an offshore...

The director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency has expressed pessimism that Iran will adopt measures to increase transparency around its military facility at Parchin. The agency wants access to the site in order to investigate reports that Iran conducted activity there linked to the development of nuclear explosives. International...

Israel will enter the U.S. Visa Waiver Program if Congress passes a bipartisan bill to be presented this week, co-sponsored by Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Ted Poe (R-TX). The program currently allows travelers from 37 countries to enter the U.S. as visitors for up to 90 days without first...

Warming ties between Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government and the Iran-backed terror group Hamas are causing analysts to express concerns over Cairo’s future role in the region. This week Egypt dispatched to Gaza its sports minister, Al-Ameri Farouk, at the head of a 70-strong delegation. Palestinian media outlets carried fulsome praise...