Israeli authorities said Wednesday that a Libyan-owned tanker suspected of smuggling oil from Iran to Syria was responsible for spilling tons of crude into the eastern Mediterranean last month, causing one of Israel’s worst environmental disasters • Full Story

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel won’t rely on the Biden administration’s efforts to return to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. “On Erev Purim, I say to those who seek to destroy us: Iran and its proxies in the Middle East: 2,500 years ago, another Persian tyrant tried to destroy the Jewish nation and just like he failed then, you’ll fail today,” the prime minister said • Full Story

President Joe Biden said the United States will not lift its economic sanctions on Iran in order to get Tehran back to the negotiating table to discuss how to revive the Iran nuclear deal • Full Story

Iranian agents who scoped out Israeli, US and Emirati embassies in an unidentified East African country in order to plan a terror attack have been arrested, Kan News reported on Monday night. The terror attack was thwarted last month, the report said • Full Story

An Iranian scientist who led the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program was assassinated Friday. The Fars news agency said the attack happened in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran. It said witnesses heard the sound of an explosion and then machine gun fire. The attack targeted a car that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was in, the agency said • Full Story

Iran has begun construction at its Natanz nuclear facility, satellite images released Wednesday show, just as the U.N.’s nuclear agency acknowledged Tehran is building an underground advanced centrifuge assembly plant after its last one exploded in a reported sabotage attack last summer • Full Story

The Department of the Treasury sanctioned several entities, including the National Iranian Oil Company, Iran’s petroleum ministry and the National Iranian Oil company, by linking them to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) elite Quds Force • Full Story

The Trump administration on Thursday formally notified the United Nations of its demand for all U.N. sanctions on Iran to be restored, citing significant Iranian violations of the 2015 nuclear deal • Full Story

A fire broke out early Thursday at a building above Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, though officials said it did not affect its centrifuge operation or cause any release of radiation • Full Story

According to officials involved in matters pertaining to the Jewish community in Iran, two elderly Jews died of the coronavirus in Tehran last week. The funeral of one of the deceased was already held in a small quarry in the capital city • Full Story

Two earthquakes struck near a nuclear power plant in southwestern Iran on Wednesday morning, just over a week after another quake hit the region • Full Story

Iran struck back at the United States for the killing of a top Iranian general early Wednesday, firing a series of ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops in a major escalation that brought the two longtime foes closer to war • Full Story

Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was eliminated in a US drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq overnight Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed • Full Story

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he ordered the Treasury Department to “substantially increase” sanctions on Iran. Trump’s announcement follows strikes Saturday on the world’s largest crude-processing plant and oil field in Saudi Arabia. The U.S. accused Iran of carrying out the attacks • Full Story

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that the International Atomic Energy Agency had found undeclared stores of uranium in a live address Monday evening • Full Story

The US Department of Defense is considering a US military request to send about 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East amid increasing tensions with Iran, two US officials told Reuters on Wednesday • Full Story

Three ancient Torah scrolls were stolen from a Tehran, Iran, synagogue last Thursday, shocking the Jewish community. Each of the scrolls was several hundred years old • Full Story

Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa strongly criticized the Islamic Republic of Iran during the international conference which took place in Warsaw this week. Khalifa stated: “We grew up talking about the Palestine-Israel dispute as the most important issue that we have to see solved one way or another. But then, we saw a bigger challenge” • Full Story

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in principle during their July summit in Helsinki that Iran should exit Syria, a U.S. administration official familiar with the meeting said Thursday, according to Bloomberg news • Full Story

Two-and-a-half months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the world in a much-anticipated live video statement, promising a ‘big surprise’ less than two weeks before President Donald Trump’s decision regarding America’s future in the Iran nuclear deal • Full Story

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed intelligence from Iran’s secret nuclear files Monday night. In his address, Netanyahu said that “Iran lied big time” when Iranian leaders denied that the Islamic Republic had a program to develop nuclear weapons • Watch

Modern day Persia: Two 17-year-old Iranian-Jewish teenagers were arrested in Tehran this week after they were caught spray painting the words “Death to Haman” on a building • Full Story

President Barack Obama will play host to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Nov. 9, their first meeting since Obama announced a nuclear accord with Iran over Netanyahu’s fierce opposition • Full Story

This past Monday, in a late afternoon news dump, we received final confirmation that Congresswoman Yvette Clarke will vote in support of the Iran deal being placed before the U.S Congress. If every eligible voter in the Crown Heights Jewish community does the following two things: Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

Rabbis express support for PM Netanyahu’s efforts to thwart the nuclear deal with Iran but not at the expense of freezing settlement activity • Full Story, Photos