Iran’s breakout time under the emerging nuclear deal could be less than the Obama administration’s estimate of one year, according to Alan J. Kuperman, associate professor and coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas in Austin. Writing in The New York Times yesterday, Kuperman argued...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he would refuse to allow a halt his nation’s nuclear research, and demanded an immediate end to sanctions upon signing a nuclear deal with the West, Reuters reported Tuesday. “Freezing Iran’s Research and Development (R&D) for a long time like 10 or 12...

In his pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama could be “headed down the wrong path,” possibly allowing Iran “to further threaten Middle Eastern stability, jeopardize American interests, or destroy our strongest ally,” Congresswoman Kristi Noem wrote Sunday in an op-ed published in the Black Hills Pioneer....

Philip Hammond and Laurent Fabius, respectively the top diplomats of Britain and France, called for Iran to submit to verification of its nuclear program to ensure that it is peaceful, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. “Britain wants a robust and verifiable deal with Iran that ensures that its nuclear programme in...

Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said that there is “no daylight” between his position on the emerging nuclear deal with Iran and the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The Telegraph published today. If the US Administration hoped that Mr Herzog might dilute Israel’s visceral suspicion of...

The effectiveness of a nuclear deal with Iran could be undercut by “bureaucratic neglect—or a political desire to look the other way,” argued an editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal published today. The piece was commenting on a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that the State Department “had failed to provide...