Officials from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog disclosed on Friday that they had demanded more information from Iranian officials regarding tests on detonators – specifically, on Exploding Bridge Wire (EBW) detonators – suspected of having been conducted with the aim of creating nuclear warheads, the latest...

Several outlets on Thursday reported on Congressional efforts to reassert a measure of control over the trajectory of nuclear negotiations with Iran, with members of the House of Representatives making a variety of moves over the last few days to monitor the status of ongoing talks and to establish acceptable...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday angrily denounced reports printed by Western outlets alleging that the Islamic republic had supplied Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime with chlorine-filled chemical weapons (CWs): In a statement on Wednesday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry described the news as “a lie”, and said the fact that the...

In a surprising move, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Indonesian diplomat Makarim Wibisono to replace the controversial special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk. Though Falk’s term as rapporteur has come to a close, his wife, Hilal Elver, was appointed by the council to...

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) on Wednesday told the Jerusalem Post that existing U.S. law is sufficient to curtail assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) should a government emerge drawing ministers from both the rival Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions, as reportedly envisioned by a recently-announced unity agreement between the two...

Voice of America (VOA) on Wednesday conveyed statements from Edward Kallon, the U.N.’s resident humanitarian coordinator for Jordan, calling on the international community to boost its support for the Hashemite kingdom in order to forestall a potential domestic backlash against the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees that have flooded...