By Amy Zewe Attention All Who Love Israel: Urgent Appeal for action! Israel is in Mortal Danger with the pending Iran Nuclear Deal. And we have an important action we are asking all of our friends to take on Israel’s behalf. Today, can you please contact your congressional representatives to voice your objection to the…
By Ilan Berman, The Hill— When it comes to Iranian behavior, the past may very well be prologue. Currently, all eyes are on the nuclear talks in Vienna, where negotiations over Iran’s reentry into the 2015 deal known as the JCPOA may end up falling apart over unexpected last-minute demands from Russia, which is serving…
By Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute— While the European Union has leveled different kinds of sanctions on Russia, including restricting access to the EU’s capital and financial markets, the EU nevertheless continues to appease Moscow’s staunch ally, the world’s largest sponsor of state terrorism, Iran. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is opportunistically using the humanitarian…
By Seth J. Frantzman, JPost— Iran’s Fars News, which is a pro-government media outlet linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ran a long article bashing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and using antisemitic tropes. In the March 10 article that appears on its website’s homepage, Zelensky is accused of being a hedonist who seeks to…
By Sharon Wrobel, Algemeiner— Israel’s defense minister warned Monday that Iran remains a “threat to global peace and to regional stability,” shortly after the Israeli military revealed that it downed two Iranian drones launched toward its territory last year. “It is during this important time, when a nuclear agreement is being negotiated in Vienna, that…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— President Obama and Vice President Biden viewed their 2015 Iran deal as a landmark agreement, believing it to be the best way to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The last seven years, however, have shown it to be quite ill conceived—a veritable land mine, in fact. And there’s plenty…
By Times of Israel— Israeli fighter jets carried out a large drill over the Mediterranean that included practicing mid-air refueling, according to a report in a Saudi-run news outlet Thursday. The unverified report in London-based Elaph described air maneuvers on Thursday by “an unusually large” contingent of F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighter craft, as well…
By Jonathan Schanzer, The Dispatch— One year into his presidency, Joe Biden endeavors to pivot away from the Middle East. The Middle East simply won’t let him. Like his predecessors, the president continues to struggle with the right approach to this important and perilous region. To date, many of Biden’s approaches have amounted to unforced…
By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger— Learning from mistakes? *Ten days before the toppling of the Shah of Iran, President Carter told a conference of world leaders on the Island of Guadeloupe that a Khomeini-led Iran “would not export revolution… and would be interested in buying tractors, not tanks…. On January 11, six days before the…
By Con Coughlin, Gatestone Institute— Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s observation that Iran is engaging in “nuclear blackmail” with Western negotiators provides a damning indictment of the current state of play regarding the negotiations being held in Vienna on Tehran’s nuclear activities. With Western intelligence agencies warning that Iran could be just weeks away from…