The framework announced by Iran and the global P5+1 powers at Lausanne last week contains significant weaknesses that leading scientists warned over the weekend will be ignored “at the peril of regional security and peace,” marking the latest in what has become a string of warnings from top nuclear experts...

Iran’s election to the top post in UN Women raises questions if Iran’s candidacy was enabled by the West’s concern not to upset the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, the watchdog group, UN Watch charged Monday. Hillel Neuer the executive director of UN Watch said: “By elevating Iran to a...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) warned that the likely outcome of the current nuclear negotiations with Iran is war. He made the remarks in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that was published today. When asked by Goldberg whether engaging and possibly empowering the moderates in Iran’s regime through negotiations...

In a step that will weaken United Nations-mandated sanctions that were enacted in response to Iran’s illicit nuclear program, the Russian government has lifted a 2010 ban on shipping an advanced air-defense system to Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. The lifting of the ban also raised fears that Iran...

Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, leaders of Israel’s main opposition party, the Zionist Union, released a position paper calling the understandings reached earlier this month with Iran over its nuclear program “problematic,” and said that they present “real potential dangers for the long term,” The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. In addition, the...

Iran is continuing its massive efforts to save the Houthi rebels in Yemen from being defeated by the Saudi-backed Operation Decisive Storm. The rush of diplomatic activity comes as Secretary of State John Kerry admitted Wednesday that the U.S. was aware that Iran was providing military support to the Shiite rebel group, which overthrew the Yemeni government. Iranian...