Senators Bob Corker (R – Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D – Md.), the two highest ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, insisted to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in a meeting today that the Obama administration must turn over missing documents related to the nuclear deal agreed to with Iran, known...

A former top official of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency has said that the recently-signed nuclear deal’s provision allowing Iran more than three weeks notice before accepting international inspectors will help the country cheat in its nuclear obligations. Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and...

A plurality of Americans who are familiar with the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), disapprove of the agreement, while 73% of Americans have little or no confidence that Iran’s leaders will abide by its terms, according to a poll released today by Pew Research...

Iran could delay inspections of suspicious nuclear sites for longer than the 24 days specified in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), William Tobey, a former deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote Monday in an analysis for Foreign Policy. Tobey explained that snap-back...

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of Iran’s Basij militia, said that the language of the recently concluded nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPOA), shows that the United States holds a “deep grudge” against Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported today. The Basij militia is a...

Two top Iranian government officials have rejected the possibility of international inspectors visiting military sites as part of a nuclear deal. Iranian defense minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, who has been implicated in planning the 1983 bombing of the United States Marines barracks in Beirut, declared that he would not allow inspectors...