Speaking at a ceremony commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a speech delivered Wednesday evening at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum that the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran showed that the West had not learned the lessons of the Holocaust, Ynet reported: The Israeli prime minister...

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A day after a Senate committee unanimously approved a bill mandating congressional review of any nuclear deal with Iran before sanctions can be lifted, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a crowd that “if there is no end to sanctions, there will not be an agreement,” Reuters reported today. “If there is no end...

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President Barack Obama’s decision to offer support for the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which mandates Congressional oversight of any Iranian nuclear deal and was passed unanimously by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, was prompted by the likelihood that the president’s veto of the bill would be overridden, The Times of...

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Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was arrested last July, will stand trial for espionage, CNN reported Monday. The Iranian-American will be tried soon on espionage, Tehran’s chief justice said. He is accused of economic spying, the Post reported, citing Iranian state media. The Washington Post did not mince words...

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The framework announced by Iran and the global P5+1 powers at Lausanne last week contains significant weaknesses that leading scientists warned over the weekend will be ignored “at the peril of regional security and peace,” marking the latest in what has become a string of warnings from top nuclear experts...

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Iran’s election to the top post in UN Women raises questions if Iran’s candidacy was enabled by the West’s concern not to upset the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, the watchdog group, UN Watch charged Monday. Hillel Neuer the executive director of UN Watch said: “By elevating Iran to a...

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) warned that the likely outcome of the current nuclear negotiations with Iran is war. He made the remarks in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that was published today. When asked by Goldberg whether engaging and possibly empowering the moderates in Iran’s regime through negotiations...

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In a step that will weaken United Nations-mandated sanctions that were enacted in response to Iran’s illicit nuclear program, the Russian government has lifted a 2010 ban on shipping an advanced air-defense system to Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. The lifting of the ban also raised fears that Iran...

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On Thursday, writing in Foreign Policy magazine, retired U.S. Navy admiral James Stavridis argued that the Arab League’s multinational response force, announced to address growing regional instability, will be established as a Sunni “army” to counter the rising power of Shiite Iran. The Arab League’s response force, first reported in late...

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Iranian troops have recently and in large numbers left the fighting in Syria in order to be redeployed in Yemen to help support the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, according to experts quoted in the Arabic-language media. Arab media reports noted the sudden disappearance (Arabic link) of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces from combat zones in Syria, including in the Syrian...

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