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European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.

EU sanctions Iranian intelligence unit, two staff members for terror plot

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The European Union on Tuesday sanctioned an Iranian intelligence unit and a few members of its staff, as Holland accused the Islamic Republic of two murders in 2015 and 2017 on Dutch soil, joining Denmark and...
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz addressing the EJC executive dinner in Vienna on Nov. 20, 2018. Credit: EJC.

Jewish groups praise EU’s adoption of anti-Semitism declaration

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Several Jewish groups praised the Council of the European Union for its unanimous adoption of a statement on combating anti-Semitism across the continent. The measure, which was the first time the council’s 28-member states have...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) and Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, at a meeting on implementing the Iran nuclear deal Sept. 22, 2016, in New York. Credit: U.N. Photo/Amanda Voisard.

The lethal error in appeasing Iran

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When the Obama-brokered Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015, one of the many spurious reasons offered for that agreement was that it would help the supposedly moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani draw the...
E.U. High Representative Federica Mogherini with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif before P5+1 nations resume nuclear talks in Switzerland in 2015. Credit: U.S. State Department.

The European Union’s utopian approach to Iran

Europe’s attitude towards Iran, particularly with respect to the 2015 nuclear deal (the JCPOA) and related ballistic issues, is hard to understand. A collective desire to defy the US, which pulled out of the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York, visual in hand, revealing a hidden Iranian nuclear facility and secret missiles in Lebanon’s capital, on Sept. 27, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Netanyahu urges IAEA to send inspectors to Iran immediately

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday, hours after it issued a laconic statement dismissing his claim of a secret nuclear installation in Iran. Netanyahu said the agency, which has...
European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.

Putting the PLO in its place

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Twelve hours and an ocean separated two important speeches this week. On Monday, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton addressed the Federalist Society in Washington. The next day, European Union foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini...
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. Credit: Annika Haas via Flickr.

EU Foreign Ministers review work done to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran

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VIENNA —The Iran nuclear agreement and Middle East stability are on top of the agenda of an informal meeting of European Union Foreign Ministers hosted Thursday by the Austrian EU presidency in Vienna. In remarks...
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis and U.S. Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. brief reporters on the current American airstrikes on Syria during a joint press conference at the Pentagon on Apr. 13, 2018. Credit: Department of Defense Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith.

US defense chief puts Iran on notice

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With the European Union and Iran, which is behind a larger disinformation campaign than previously reported, recently pushing back against the United States reimposing sanctions on the regime earlier this month—lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, which...
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. Credit: Annika Haas via Flickr.

EU pledges $21 million in Iran assistance to keep nuclear deal alive

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The European Union announced on Thursday financial support to stimulate the declining Iranian economy. The assistance exemplifies the bloc’s pledge to maintain the 2015 Iran nuclear accord despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision in May...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin receives the credentials of E.U. Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret (left) in October 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

EU ambassador reprimanded, for second time, for ‘interfering with Israeli legislation’

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“It is not enough that the E.U. finances NGOs that strive to undermine the State of Israel and finance illegal construction it is now interfering with Israeli legislation. Apparently, they do not understand that...