Money over country: Israeli ex-minister jailed for spying for Iran

The Israeli Justice Ministry has announced that Gonen Segev, a former energy minister, who was caught spying for Iran, will serve 11 years behind bars in exchange for a guilty plea. Last June, Segev, who served as Israel’s Energy Minister from 1995 to 1996, was arrested by the Shin Bet internal security service after suspicions […]

Trump making history by seeking changes to Iran deal, Israel’s intelligence minister says

Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz says that President Trump’s hard-line approach to Iran and the nuclear agreement signed by his predecessor is “historic” and “dramatic.” Katz — who has ambitions to become Israel’s next prime minister — compared the landmark nuclear accord reached in 2015 between Iran and world powers to a modern-day equivalent of the […]

How the CIA staged sham academic conferences to thwart Iran’s nuclear program

This is an edited excerpt from “Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities,” by senior editor Daniel Golden. The excerpt was co-published with The Guardian. The CIA agent tapped softly on the hotel room door. After the keynote speeches, panel discussions and dinner, the conference attendees had retired for the […]

Kim Jong Un praises nuclear program, promotes sister to center of power

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un said his nuclear weapons were a “powerful deterrent” that guaranteed its sovereignty, state media reported on Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said “only one thing will work” in dealing with the isolated country. Trump did not make clear to what he was referring, but his comments seemed […]

Iran rejects U.S. demand for U.N. visit to military sites

Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for United Nations nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely a dream”. It also said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was unlikely to agree anyway. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, last week pressed the IAEA to seek access to Iranian military bases […]

North Korea says U.S. has to roll back ‘hostile policy’ before talks

North Korea’s deputy U.N. envoy said on Friday the United States needed to roll back its “hostile policy” toward the country before there could be talks as Washington raised concern that Pyongyang could be producing a chemical used in a nerve agent. “As everybody knows, the Americans have gestured (toward) dialogue,” North Korea’s deputy U.N. […]