The Hindu on Friday conveyed recent remarks from Hassan Nourian – Iran’s Consul General in Hyderabad – urging Indians to shrug off American pressure aimed at limiting trade with the Islamic republic: Pointing out that India was a big economy which has twice the landmass of Iran and 15 times...

As Iran shows no concrete sign of ending its nuclear program and continues its threats towards the West and interests in the region, its Arab neighbors have begun introducing the compulsory military draft for their young men. The president of the United Arab Emirates on Saturday issued a law implementing...

State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf was pressed at Wednesday’s press briefing over reports – published a day earlier by Al-Monitor’s insidery Congress Pulse – that the Obama administration has continued to delay the shipment of 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt despite having announced in April that it would release...

Al-Monitor late Wednesday rounded up announcements made earlier in the day by the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) revealed that they would soon be holding a series of hearings to evaluate...

The Associated Press on Monday conveyed comments from the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) assessing that the pace being made in addressing the so-called possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s nuclear program – which stretch from the Iranian military’s involvement in mining uranium all the way to tests...

Lawmakers from both major parties and both chambers of Congress moved on Monday to condemn the formation of a new Palestinian unity government – agreed to in recent days by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, and announced Monday morning by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – with Al...