There is significant legal precedent for Congress voting against the nuclear deal with Iran and initiating a renegotiation of the agreement, Orde Kittrie, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the State Department’s former lead attorney for nuclear affairs, wrote in an op-ed (Google link) today in The...

Iran and Russia are holding a joint naval exercise on the Caspian Sea, The Times of Israel reported today. Russian warships Volgodonsk and Makhachkala berthed in Anzali Port on August 9 for a three-day stay. Commander of Iran’s fleet of warships in the Northern Gilan province Admiral Ahmad Reza Baqeri said...

The approach by advocates of the nuclear deal with Iran has been “disappointing” due to supporters “resorting to intimidation and demonization, while also grossly overstating their case,” former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote in an editorial Monday for Bloomberg News. Last week, President Barack Obama said that it was not a...

There will be no “snapback” of sanctions on Iran if the Islamic Republic violates the UN’s arms embargo, Secretary of State John Kerry admitted in an interview with Reuters today. “The arms embargo is not tied to snapback,” Kerry said. “It is tied to a separate set of obligations. So they are...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s angry denial of accusations that Iran is sanitizing the Parchin military site to remove evidence of nuclear work is “an assault on the integrity and prospects of the nuclear deal,” David Albright, the founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a leading nonproliferation think tank,...

In his first public comments since announcing last week that he would vote against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal with Iran is known, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) said that the United States should seek a “better deal” with Iran, The Hill reported yesterday....