Diplomacy

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, urged the Security Council on Wednesday to adopt the Trump administration’s approach to Iran and address all aspects of its “destructive conduct” – not just the 2015 nuclear deal. Haley told Security Council members that Iran “has repeatedly thumbed its...

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Stella Handler, the CEO of Israeli telecommunication company, Bezeq, slammed on Monday a United Nations blacklist of Israeli companies as “anti-Israel propaganda”  in a Facebook post, Haaretz reported. Handler was criticizing a letter Bezeq had received from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that said that her company was subject...

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Qatar’s former culture minister, who has disseminated anti-Semitic material, both in the course of his official duties and personally, is a leading candidate to succeed Irina Bokova as head of the UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, Ben Cohen reported for the Algemeiner on Monday. Despite protests from the Simon...

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President Donald Trump’s national security team has unanimously recommended a plan for the president to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran and ramp up pressure against the Islamic Republic to counter its conventional threats. “Trump’s team plans to work with Congress and European allies to apply new pressure on the Iranian regime,...

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) admission that it had not verified Section T of the nuclear deal with Iran shows that “the deal is not fully implemented,” the president of a nonproliferation think tank told Fox News on Sunday. “Amano basically said that the IAEA is not implementing the verification of...

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United States President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, will return to Israel on Monday amid Arabic media reports about a new peace plan. A senior White House official said that Greenblatt and his family planned to visit Israel on a private holiday, adding that Greenblatt would...

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