Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that “humorous words, slogans and improper jokes” by the United States serve to “damage the trend [towards] confidence-building,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported Monday. Rouhani’s complaint comes days after he promised that Iran “will not ask for permission or abide by any resolution” that prevents...

While Iran has engaged in several conflicts since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, one it “has decidedly won is the media war” with the West, Roya Hakakian, a prominent Iranian-American Jewish author and journalist, wrote in an op-ed yesterday in The Forward. Hakakian argued that foreign journalists frequently fall into...

Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s parliament speaker, blasted British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and said that “Israel should be annihilated,” Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported today. “Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate...

Voters in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida oppose the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), by more than a 2 to 1 margin, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday. Voters in Florida oppose the deal by a margin...

Last week’s rocket attacks on the northern Galilee and Golan Heights by a Syrian cell of the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorist group were likely a part of “an Iranian effort to maintain a limited front from which it can engage Israel without igniting a broader war,” and may be repeated “at...

A sixth Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D – Pa.) from the Philadelphia area, announced his opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in an op-ed published Sunday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Citing his experience as a member of the committee and its...