Turkey is preparing to exploit the reduction in Iran’s financial and diplomatic isolation, threatening to undermine Obama administration assertions that the relief granted to the Islamic republic under the recently announced Joint Plan of Action is “limited, temporary, targeted, and reversible.” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense...

There is ‘no end in sight’ for talks aimed at implementing the Geneva interim agreement announced last month between the global P5+1 powers and Iran, according to an Agence France-Presse article that was published last week. “There are definite differences of opinion on the interpretation (of the Geneva text). Not that I...

The United Nations late on Thursday confirmed that chemical weapons had been used in the almost three year Syrian conflict, with experts investigating more than half a dozen alleged uses of proscribed weapons and – in what CNN described as “the case that was most clear” – documenting an August incident...

The Washington Free Beacon late on Thursday published details of measures emerging from the House of Representatives seeking to – per the outlet – “reset the terms of a controversial nuclear accord reached between Iran and Western nations several weeks ago in Geneva.” The new bipartisan Iran measure, which was filed Thursday evening...

Islamist forces this weekend overran key facilities which until then had been controlled by the more moderate Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), seizing warehouses containing U.S. military gear sent to the FSA and forcing the group’s commander Gen. Salim Idris to flee the country. Buzzfeed had reported on Tuesday that Washington had...

Reversing assurances given last week to the Pulitzer Prize winning site PolitiFact by a National Security Council (NSC) source, the White House yesterday admitted to the Washington Free Beacon that an Iranian ballistic missile test would not put Tehran in violation of the recently signed Geneva agreement. “That statement on ballistic missiles is incorrect,”...