Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has rebuffed Secretary of State John Kerry’s call for Iran to negotiate a “new arrangement” governing its ballistic missile program. Making his remarks in Tehran at a joint press conference with Estonia’s foreign minister on Sunday, Zarif rejected any form of negotiation or compromise. Zarif claimed that the...

Four Iranian special forces soldiers were killed in Syria, a week after Iran announced that elite units would be deployed to help Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad stay in power. The four commandos, who are the first members of the official Iranian armed forces to die in the Syrian civil war, were sent as military advisers, Iran’s Tasnim...

JNS.org – Here’s the latest episode of outreach to Iran from the lips of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. After condemning, during a press conference in Bahrain, the “destabilizing actions” of Iran in the Middle East, he then followed up with a plea. “Help us end the war in...

President Barack Obama is facing growing bipartisan pressure from lawmakers opposed to giving Iran further sanctions relief under the guise of adhering to the “letter and the spirit” of last year’s nuclear deal, Associated Press diplomatic reporter Matt Lee wrote in an analysis published Monday. While many international sanctions on Iran have been lifted due...

Passivity in the face of ongoing Iranian provocations is hurting American credibility in the Middle East, particularly with the Gulf states, a former U.S. State Department official wrote in CNN on Friday. Aaron David Miller, now the vice president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, argued that the Obama administration’s reluctance to push back against Iranian...

The editors of The Washington Post called on the Obama administration to take action against Iran for ballistic missile tests it carried out since agreeing to last year’s nuclear deal on Wednesday. While crediting Iran with complying with “the principal terms” of the nuclear deal, the editors pointed out that Iran “has aggressively exploited loopholes in...