Four independent experts working with the United Nations have called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, an academic and doctor accused of espionage for Israel during the nuclear talks between the Islamic Republic and world powers, Agence France-Presse reported on Wednesday. In a statement, the experts...

In the wake of a report earlier this week that the Obama administration ended an investigation into Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking operations in the Western Hemisphere in order to secure the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a former United States Treasury Department official outlined steps that the Trump administration could take to effectively combat...

Israeli media have reported that the Syrian regime is preparing to expand its area of control in the south of the country near the border with Israel. Amos Harel, writing in Haaretz, concludes that the regime’s conquest of Aleppo, Dir a-Zur and al-Raqqa has freed up the army and Shi’ite militias...

Iranian state television broadcasted what it claimed was the confession of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian academic, who was sentenced to death for espionage in October, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) reported Sunday. According to the “confession” that was aired, Djalali had been approached by a foreign intelligence service, apparently the Mossad,...

Saudi Arabia claims to have intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired at its royal palace by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. According to a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels in Yemen, Saudi air defenses intercepted the Volcano H2 (or Burkan H2)...

The German government is funding a radical pro-Iranian regime Shi’ite umbrella organization with €283,150 ($334,800) as part of a strategy to promote “deradicalization” and “prevent extremism,” Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The money, which comes from the EU’s Internal Security Fund, will finance the activities of...