As doubts continue to grow about the administration’s claims made of progress in the nuclear negotiations, including those made by President Barack Obama in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, senators from both parties are seeking to introduce legislation to restore the West’s leverage in those negotiations. In his State...

The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal editorial boards responded with skepticism over President Obama’s opposition to new conditional legislation that could impose economic pressure on Iran. Both pieces take aim at President Obama’s logic for threatening to veto legislation that would only take effect if nuclear negotiations fail...

Senator Robert Menendez (D – N.J.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pushed back today against the White House’s claims that Congressional action could derail negotiations with Iran over its illicit nuclear program. In his State of the Union speech last night, President Barack Obama claimed that...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation by House Speaker John Boehner (R – Ohio) to speak before a joint session of Congress, Politico reported today. “You may have seen that on Friday, the president warned us not to move ahead with sanctions on Iran, a state sponsor of terror,”...

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched an attack on the American-supported government of Yemen that, according to a report in The Washington Post, will leave the president of that beleaguered nation politically “badly weakened.” The coup-style strikes by the Houthi rebel faction — believed backed by Iran — marked a major setback...

Before leaving Israel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to cooperate with the Jewish state to fight terror, The Japan Times reported yesterday: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to work together to enhance anti-terrorism measures as they held talks Sunday in Jerusalem, Japanese officials said....