National Security Adviser Susan Rice has stated that the administration will not accept any deal would “let Iran enrich its own uranium.” The State Department’s top figures, including Secretary of State John Kerry, subsequently stated multiple times that it considers no deal better than a deal that falls short of...

Analysts and journalists continued today to chew over recently posted footage showing Iranian president Hassan Rouhani boasting that he used negotiations with the West during the 2000’s to stall for time while Iran locked in its nuclear infrastructure. The Times of Israel, which brought renewed attention to the video, also...

The next round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 are scheduled for next week in Geneva. While an ongoing charm offensive by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been praised for changing Iran’s tone toward the West, it has been criticized for offering zero new concessions that might move negotiations forward....

Palestinian diplomats last year launched a diplomatic campaign to gain non-member statehood status via the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), brushing aside calls from President Barack Obama to put aside the campaign and triggering automatic U.S. sanctions that endangered the financial viability of the organization. U.S. lawmakers specifically expressed concerns...

U.S. lawmakers have already made clear what they consider to be the broad outlines of any meaningful deal surrounding Iran’s nuclear program, which is widely believed to include a clandestine weaponization component. Reflecting an emerging bipartisan consensus, Rep. Eliot Engel, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, recently...

When Secretary of State John Kerry announced the resumption of U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, he was explicit that success would rely on both sides not leaking details of the negotiations to journalists and diplomats. Kerry went even further and told reporters that “no one should consider any reports, articles, or...