Germany has allowed Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the former head of Iran’s judiciary accused of crimes against humanity, to flee the country on Thursday for Iran, after the cleric received medical treatment for a brain tumor, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. آيت الله فراري! pic.twitter.com/h1D3DfE5Dk — Potkin Azarmehr...

In the wake of the Iranian regime’s harsh crackdown on nationwide protests, former Obama administration official wrote that the United States and Europe should “feel free to impose sanctions tied to human rights, terror and missiles notwithstanding” the nuclear deal upon Iran in an op-ed published Tuesday in Politico. Dennis Ross,...

The invitation extended by the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss the status of the nuclear deal next week is one more example of her penchant for engaging the world’s worst tyrants instead of pressuring them to change, Eli Lake,...

An Iranian education official cited fears of a “cultural invasion” as a reason for banning the teaching of English at the primary school level, the BBC reported Monday. The announcement comes in the wake of popular protests across the country of poor economic conditions that the regime’s leaders, including President Hassan Rouhani, have...

Two synagogues have been vandalized in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, with attackers ripping Torah scrolls, prayer books and ritual objects, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Thursday. The Kashi Synagogue was attacked Sunday night, while the Hadash synagogue came under assault on Monday afternoon. Blurred video footage aired...

The recent report in Politico that the Obama administration shut down a systematic investigation into Hezbollah’s drug running in the Western Hemisphere in order to secure the nuclear deal with Iran underscores one of the main costs of the deal: it normalized Iran’s abnormal behavior. The nuclear deal not only erased...