For a second day in a row, coverage of nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran emphasized expressions of optimism while noting that Iranian negotiators have not in fact offered anything substantively concrete or new. Officials quoted by Reuters yesterday described “no apparent narrowing of differences” and worried that what...

Talks which concluded today between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva are being described with optimism in some quarters and pessimism in others, as analysts and policymakers struggled to figure out what exactly the Iranians offered and if the offer would be sufficient to put nuclear weapons beyond the reach...

Deepening instability along Turkey’s border with Syria has analysts concerned that U.S. troops – who are in the theater to protect Turkish airspace from Syrian forces – are likely to be either directly targeted or caught in crossfires. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had for the better part of a...

Politico this morning chased down three top U.S. defense contractors to assess the effects they were feeling from the U.S.’s partial freeze on Egyptian military assistance. The conclusion of the article was that “if the U.S.-Egyptian relationship is patched up quickly enough,” then the impacts could at least be “manageable.”...

The weekend and Monday saw senators, analysts, and journalists raise increasingly pointed concerns over rumors that the West may accept a deal that would leave Iran with either enriched uranium up to 3.5% purity or the right to continue enrichment. Observers fear that any amount of enriched material or enrichment...

The Washington Post‘s editorial this morning emphasizes that Iran’s “advanced centrifuges and the Arak [plutonium] reactor must now be part of any deal” that would provide Tehran with sanctions relief, since the “new facts” established by Iran’s recent installation of advanced uranium and plutonium technology have “torn some big holes” in what...