The governor of Iran’s central bank warned that if the United States doesn’t facilitate Iran’s reintegration into the international financial system, the nuclear deal will “[break] up under its own terms,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Valiollah Seif made his remarks in a 90-minute presentation in Washington, which this week...

A summit of over 50 Muslim countries criticized Iran on Friday for supporting terrorism and interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbors. The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which concluded its meeting in Istanbul on Friday, stated as part of its final communique that it “deplored Iran’s interference in the internal affairs of...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ignored a request to grant a trial to an Iranian opposition leader and reformer who has been held under house arrest since the contested 2009 presidential elections, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Rouhani, who assumed office in 2013, has been called a reformer and previously...

By failing to take a stand against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian leaders have “lost the Arab depth, their credibility and their narrative,” Hanin Ghaddar, the editor of the Lebanese news site NOW, wrote in a commentary Thursday. Ghaddar observed that Assad and Hezbollah, both of which are backed...

The Iran-backed Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad held parliamentary elections in areas under its control on Wednesday, a move that Western nations and the Syrian opposition said undermined negotiations for a political solution to the conflict and will likely result in a rubber-stamp legislature in favor of Assad. U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Mark...

If Bashar al-Assad and senior members of the Syrian leadership are ever captured and brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and charged with war crimes, the evidence being gathered by an obscure investigative agency could be crucial to establishing their guilt. In the newest issue of The New Yorker, Ben Taub documented the efforts of the Commission...