Iran

Iran’s attempt to advance a military nuclear program from the late 1980s is at the heart of its decades-long violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Its secret work on the development of a nuclear bomb encapsulates the deceptive behavior that lost Iran the trust of the international community, and...

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s nuclear history failed to address fundamental questions about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, arms control experts at the Institute for Science and International Security argued in a report issued Wednesday. • Despite obfuscation and stonewalling by Iran, the IAEA confirmed that Iran...

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A recently released investigative report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, concluded that Iran did work on developing a nuclear weapon, despite the regime’s claims to the contrary, the Associated Press wrote on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s report was significant in coming...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is perpetuating the presence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq while undermining American national interests in the Middle East, Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow and expert on Iran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Wednesday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing....

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The State Department acknowledged that it had advance knowledge of the execution of a dual Iranian-American citizen by Iran last month, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday. The organization Iran Human Rights, citing “confirmed sources,” disclosed that Iranian authorities hanged Hamid Samiee on November 4 for the alleged murder of...

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The United States never sought to use the nuclear deal with Iran to get a full accounting of Tehran’s past nuclear research, Armin Rosen wrote in an article published by Business Insider on Monday, citing a State Department report obtained by the publication. Rosen, who noted that there is “extensive evidence”...

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