Iran’s foreign ministry on Thursday brushed aside President Barack Obama’s claim, made on Tuesday during the President’s State of the Union address, that American sanctions had coerced Iran into negotiating over its atomic program. “The delusion of sanctions having an effect on Iran’s motivation for nuclear negotiations is based on a false narration of...

Geneva II peace talks continue between the Bashar al-Assad regime, which has made Assad’s continued rule a red line, and opposition elements, who have all but conditioned the talks’ success on his removal. There are also global powers involved who are to greater and lesser extents aligned with one of...

Analysts are expressing increasingly pointed concerns that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif may lack either the ability or the willingness to help secure a comprehensive deal between Iran and the West that would put Tehran’s nuclear program verifiably beyond use for weaponization, with his recently published memoirs and multiple recent...

American voters from across both political parties and all demographics believe that Congress must have a voice in any final agreement with Iran, favor Congressional legislation that would impose new financial pressure on Tehran, and prefer almost virtually any scenario – including targeted military strikes – to allowing the Islamic...

Reuters yesterday conveyed statements from State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf confirming that the first round of comprehensive nuclear negotiations with Iran will begin in New York in mid-February, amid both news and analysis reflecting unease over the willingness and ability of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to offer meaningful concessions. “New York –...

New polling out of Israel indicates that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu party has dramatically strengthened its electoral position. One year after the elections that kept Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power but resulted in a disappointing showing by his Likud-Beytenu list, the two-party alliance is seeing dramatic gains among likely...