Lawmakers on Wednesday issued a statement warning the White House that they would aim to increase sanctions on Tehran if the administration fails to agree to what Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) described as a “good deal” as the deadline to reach an agreement with Iran over its...

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced a successful test of the Barak-8 surface to air missile on Monday. The missile is jointly produced by Israel and India. Defense News reports: “The system is now operational,” said Boaz Levy, executive vice president and general manager of IAI’s Systems, Missiles and Space Group. “All...

A range of stories published over the weekend and into Tuesday indicate that Iran is preparing to expand its declared plutonium program and has not yet accounted for a potentially vast clandestine uranium enrichment program, with new analysis suggesting that the latter may expand Iran’s previously known capacity significantly. The...

The latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), published Friday by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), blasted Tehran for “not provid[ing] any explanations that enable the Agency to clarify the outstanding practical measures,” stoking concerns that Iranian officials may be counting...

Tensions deepened on Thursday between the White House and Congress over the Obama administration’s diplomacy toward Iran, after the Wall Street Journal reported that that President Barack Obama had sent a secret letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei discussing a proposed nuclear deal and suggesting that Washington and Tehran...

At a joint press conference Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iran must prove its nuclear program is peaceful. Voice of America (VOA) reported that the two diplomats agreed “that Iran has a right to a peaceful nuclear program but ‘not a track...