The nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will provide Tehran with the means “to produce [enriched] uranium on an industrial scale” after fifteen years, according to an analysis of the deal published yesterday in The New York Times. This would...

Ray Takeyh, a former State Department official and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, called on President Barack Obama to negotiate a better nuclear deal with Iran which, unlike the current agreement, will be approved by a majority of Americans and their congressional lawmakers, in an op-ed published...

Rep. Ed Royce (R – Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, criticized the side deal between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran in a statement released yesterday. The deal authorizes Iran, rather than the IAEA, to collect evidence from its suspected nuclear research site at the Parchin military base. It is...

In a departure from the usual procedure, Iran will be allowed to use its own “experts and equipment” to provide international inspectors with environmental samples from the military base and suspected nuclear site Parchin, the Associated Press (AP) reported today, citing a classified draft of a side agreement between Iran...

Both Democratic and Republican members of Congress oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as its failure to permanently restrict Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb is a “bipartisan concern,” Sen. Steve Daines (R – Mont.) argued in an op-ed published in...

A congressional rejection of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would not lead to war or diplomatic isolation of the United States, as the Obama administration has warned, just as similar warnings proved incorrect about stronger sanctions, former Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in an op-ed published Friday in...