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October 25, 2018

New Evidence Shows That Iran Was Closer to Building a Nuclear Bomb Than Previously Thought

What the stolen archive shows.

In April, Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israeli operatives had spirited a vast, secret archive relating to Iran’s nuclear-weapons program out of the country and brought it to Jerusalem. Having studied the documents that have been made public, David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Olli Heinonen, and Frank Pabian conclude that Tehran has been carrying out research necessary for the development of a nuclear bomb at a military facility in Parchin, and that this research was more advanced than experts had believed. If so, the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal and the current regimen of inspections are not preventing the Islamic Republic from continuing on its path to the bomb:

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October 25, 2018

  1. New Evidence Shows That Iran Was Closer to Building a Nuclear Bomb Than Previously Thought

    What the stolen archive shows.

  2. The Palestinian Authority Cracks Down on Sales of Land to Jews in Jerusalem

    In violation of the Oslo Accords.

  3. Christian Zionism, American Exceptionalism, and the Protestant Roots of U.S. Middle East Policy

    From Christopher Columbus to Mike Pence.

  4. The Soviet-Jewish Translator Who Wrote Publicly about the Holocaust—until Soviet Censorship Caught Up with Him

    Lev Ginzburg.

  5. How Did a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet End Up in Jerusalem?

    When Canaan was an Egyptian province.