France said Tuesday that it had seized assets belonging to Iran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals in response to a plot to bomb an exiled Iranian opposition group’s rally outside Paris in June, The Times of Israel reported. The attack was reportedly thwarted by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, in...

In a forty-minute speech addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed the presence of another undeclared Iranian nuclear site, and blasted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for hypocrisy, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. At the beginning of his speech, Netanyahu revealed that Iran had a second...

United States President Donald Trump must be willing, for sanctions to effectively change Iran’s destabilizing behavior, to sanction the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), if it maintains connections with sanctioned Iranian banks in November, Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, argued...

In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings, United States President Donald Trump endorsed both Israel’s right to self-defense, and a two-state solution for Israeli-Palestinian peace, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Though Trump had previously expressed skepticism towards a...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described Israel as the “most terrifying threat” to peace in the Middle East and the world in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Ynet reported Tuesday. “Israel, which has a nuclear arsenal and is blatantly threatening others with nuclear annihilation, is the most terrifying threat...

“For almost 40 years, the Iranian regime has existed outside the community of law-abiding nations,” United State Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said at the opening of this week’s UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East. “It is difficult to name a conflict in the Middle East...