In the wake of admissions that the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran will pass the June 30 deadline, the Associated Press (AP) published an analysis today that explored a number of possibilities world powers could pursue should the talks fail. The analysis judges that a military response is unlikely, but...

The windfall of sanctions relief that Iran will be granted as a result of the emerging nuclear deal will allow the Islamic Republic “to project its power into corners of the Middle East in ways that were never possible before,” Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,...

The State Department today refused to allow a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon to attend a press briefing given by lead negotiator Wendy Sherman and threatened to call security to have him removed. The Free Beacon reported: Two State Department officials booted the Free Beacon from a room where...

In an analysis (Google link) of the secret diplomacy between the United States and Iran that led to the nuclear talks, The Wall Street Journal today reported that in order to build confidence with Iran, the United States expedited the release of four Iranians, among them convicted arms smugglers, who were held...

The United States must not allow Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s latest rejection of terms necessary for an effective nuclear agreement shape the emerging deal, an unsigned staff editorial today in The Boston Globe asserted. The United States must “hold Iranian negotiators to the terms they agreed to” in Lausanne in April....

The experience of Hossein Alizadeh, a former Iranian diplomat based in Finland, raised questions over whether a regime that cheats its own people can be trusted to keep an international agreement, Sohrab Ahmari wrote in his profile (Google link) of the former diplomat Friday in The Wall Street Journal. Remembering the rigged elections that returned...