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EU sanctions Iranian intelligence unit, two staff members for terror plot
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...
Jewish groups praise EU’s adoption of anti-Semitism declaration
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...
The lethal error in appeasing Iran
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...
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...
Netanyahu urges IAEA to send inspectors to Iran immediately
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...
Putting the PLO in its place
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...
EU Foreign Ministers review work done to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran
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...
US defense chief puts Iran on notice
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...
EU pledges $21 million in Iran assistance to keep nuclear deal alive
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...
EU ambassador reprimanded, for second time, for ‘interfering with Israeli legislation’
“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...