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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar were among those consulted.The post Netanyahu convenes top security chiefs amid elevated

The administration still views diplomacy as the "best path" to ensuring Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons, but Tehran must take "de-escalatory steps," says U.S. State Department spokesman.

The United States has alleged that Iran’s satellite launches defy a U.N. Security Council resolution and has called on Tehran to undertake no activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

The scope and scale of the Iran Experts Initiative project emerge in a large cache of Iranian government correspondence and emails reported for the first time by Semafor and Iran International.

Jay Solomon over at Semafor is out with a piece that details how the Iranian Foreign Ministry worked closely with a bunch of American and European academics to help sell the Iran nuclear deal back in 2014 by repeating Tehran’s lines. Members of the group, dubbed the Iran Experts Initiative, were frequent sources for media outlets before and after the deal was signed in 2015.

One member of the IEI, who now works at the Pentagon, appears to have skipped a conference in Israel after an Iranian official recommended that she not attend.

The Palestinian President called on the United Nations General Assembly to undertake the necessary arrangements to convene a peace conference, which may be the "last opportunity to salvage the two-state solution." Abbas asserted Thursday the need to "prevent the situation from deteriorating more seriously, threatening the security and stability of our region and the entire world."

The Saudi crown prince made it clear that he won’t accept American appeasement of Iran.

Theres an understanding the Palestinians are an obstacle to peace, Gilad Erdan says.The post Israel’s UN envoy to JNS: Palestinian issue won’t be resolved anytime soon appeared first on JNS.org.

Four experts explain to legislators the “dangerous strategy” underlying the administration’s Middle East moves.