The State Department acknowledged last week that Iran currently has a window of time during which it is allowed to continue its nuclear activity unrestrained by an interim agreement announced last month in Geneva, with State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki telling reporters that the six-month period during which the administration is precluding...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham was quoted by Iranian state media today declaring that the White House is mischaracterizing the terms of an interim agreement signed this weekend between the P5+1 and Iran, a statement that threatens to deepen an already-pitched controversy over the degree to which the agreement conceded that...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Tuesday delivered a progress report describing his first 100 days in office, describing among other things his administration’s success in weakening the international sanctions regime against the country. One hundred days into his first term as Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani offered an upbeat progress report to the country Tuesday,...

Analysts, diplomats, and journalists spent overnight Saturday and into Sunday outlining both the meaning and the implications of an interim agreement secured last night between the P5+1 global powers and Iran. Controversy erupted not just over the substance of the deal – whether it met the benchmark previously set by...

The U.S. has in the past few decades enjoyed enormous benefits from close military-to-military ties with Cairo. Among other advantages, U.S. forces received preferential overflight rights and preferential access to the Suez Canal, both critical to U.S. efforts to move assets throughout the region. More broadly, ties between the U.S. and Egypt...

Turkey is looking to finalize its purchase of Chinese anti-missile systems within a matter of months, according to statements made Thursday by the head of Ankara’s under secretariat for defense industries: “The immediate goal for us is in about six months to come to a reasonable level in our contract negotiations and...