Britain’s decision to outlaw Hezbollah last month casts a harsh light on the rest of Europe’s refusal to do so, two experts wrote in an op-ed published Sunday in the New York Post. After Britain “rejected the notion that Hezbollah is a ‘two-winged’ group without unified command and control over...

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In an explosive report released last week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran, Javaid Rehman, blasted the Islamic Republic for continuing to execute children in defiance of international law. Records show that at least 61 children have been executed by the regime since 2008. Girls as young as 9-years-old...

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Rights groups and the United States government criticized Iran for appointing a cleric who has been implicated for his role in mass executions in the 1980s to head its judiciary, the Voice of America reported Wednesday. Ebrahim Raisi was the deputy prosecutor in Tehran in 1988 when the regime carried...

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Code Pink, an anti-war group and official partner of the Women’s March, reportedly defended Iran’s right to a missile defense program at a press conference in Tehran, Seth Frantzman reported Tuesday in The Jerusalem Post. In late February, Code Pink embarked on an “American peace delegation” to the Islamic Republic,...

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The Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands announced Monday that it had recalled the country’s ambassador to Iran for “consultations” after the Islamic Republic expelled two diplomats from the Dutch embassy amid escalating tensions between the two nations over an alleged plot to assassinate regime opponents, Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty...

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A court in Argentina convicted five people and acquitted eight others, including a former president, for their roles in obstructing the investigation into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. Former President Carlos Menem, who ruled Argentina from 1989 to 1999,...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected the resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is now back on the job, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. According to reports, Zarif, who is often described as a moderate, submitted his resignation after a series of perceived slights, including his exclusion from a meeting...

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While in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israelis would “continue to operate” against Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Netanyahu said that he and Putin mostly discussed the deployment of Russian S-300 air defense systems...

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Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, under whose rule an estimated 500,000 were killed during a seven-year civil war, was welcomed to Iran by top government officials, Reuters reported Monday. It was Assad’s first visit to Iran since 2010. The Syria ruler was embraced by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to Syrian...

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After months of review, researchers concluded that the Iranian nuclear archive seized by Israel last year is “rich in new information” about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear aspirations and raises doubts about its commitment not to pursue nuclear weapons. The results of the study were published in a paper Monday. The researchers —...

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