Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime
Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction.
Deutsche Bundesbank
German central bank blocks $400 million cash delivery to Iran ahead of crippling U.S. sanctions
The U.S. campaign to rein in Iran has scored a victory in the German financial sector, after the Deutsche Bundesbank− the country’s central bank− imposed a rule stopping a $400...
Op-eds
The Preeminent Challenge
The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...
Op-eds
Germany’s central bank imposes rule to stop cash delivery to Tehran
Germany’s powerful central bank – Deutsche Bundesbank – passed a new financial policy that will effectively bar the transfer of nearly $400 million in cash to the Iranian regime...
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Report: Germany considers Iranian bid to withdraw 300 million Euros cash
Tehran’s regime plans to use the European-Iranian trade bank in the northern German city of Hamburg – with the approval of the German government – to transfer 300 million euros...
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Europe Has Billions of Reasons to Let Iran Cheat
Europe’s rapidly expanding economic relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran prompted Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to call for a unified trans-Atlantic approach to enforcement of the...
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US Senator, Treasury Press EU to Blacklist Hezbollah
In an exchange with US Senator Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) on drying up Iranian funds for the financing of its alleged nuclear weapons program, Treasury Under Secretary David Cohen said the US governm...
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Das Gift
How Angela Merkel's bold plan to save Europe may have just saved Barack Obama.
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Free-Speech Hypocrisy in Europe
A Danish art exhibit attacks public figures who ‘insult’ but not those who issue death threats in response
Op-eds
Gaza Flotilla Flops
This year's anti-Israel hate fest at sea is being sunk by countries that once backed it.
Op-eds
Germany Joins EU Plan to Sanction Iranian Bank
BERLIN — Germany has signed on to a European Union plan to sanction an Iranian-controlled German bank that handles billions of euros in annual transactions for clients doing business in the Islam...
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Rift Widens As Germany Alienates NATO Allies
Germany's decision to abandon its Western allies by abstaining on the UN Security Council's March vote to approve a no-fly zone over Libya created a profound rift between Chancell...
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Concern over German Iran Policies
Only hours before Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu touched down in Berlin for talks last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration announced that it would stop pumping billion...
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Boosting Israel’s Enemies
Only hours before German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government nailed a deal worth billions of Euros with the greatest...
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Why Is Germany’s Angela Merkel Strengthening Enemies of Israel and the West?
Only hours before German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government did a deal worth billions with the greatest threat to Israe...
Op-eds
Iran, Settlements Overshadow Netanyahu-Merkel Talks
Diplomatic fissures between Israel and Germany over Berlin's pro-Iran trade and bank policies, peace talks with the Palestinians, and Germany's endorsement of an anti-Israel UN resoluti...
Op-eds
Why Is Germany’s Angela Merkel Strengthening Enemies of Israel and the West?
Only hours before German chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government did a deal worth billions with the greatest threat to Isr...
Op-eds
German Firms Finance World Champ in Holocaust Denial’
BERLIN – The new president of Germany's 105,000-member Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, launched on Monday a withering attack on German companies, the Merkel administration an...
Op-eds
Why Has Germany Snubbed Obama over Iran Sanctions?
Berlin — According to a front-page story in the main German business daily the Handelsblatt, "Although [Iran] is subject to strict economic sanctions by the EU and USA, Germany helps in circumven...
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Why Has Germany Snubbed Obama over Iran Sanctions?
Berlin — According to a front-page story in the main German business daily the Handelsblatt, “Although [Iran] is subject to strict economic sanctions by the EU and USA, Germany helps...