Sen. Chris Coons (D – Del.) questioned the American negotiating team behind the recently concluded nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), over the agreement’s weaknesses at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday. Addressing Secretary of State John Kerry, Coons asked if the...

Skeptical senators from both sides of the aisle pressed three key members of the Obama administration at a hearing for explanations on Thursday over the final deal reached with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew appeared before the Senate...

Iran’s foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif told Iran’s Majlis, or parliament, that according the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Iran is permitted to deny international nuclear inspectors access to military sites, “raising new questions about Tehran’s commitment to the terms of the agreement,” The Los...

The nuclear deal agreed to last week has become a “horror story,” that will “[ensure] the establishment of a new Iranian nuclear program, which will be immeasurably more powerful and dangerous than its predecessor,” according to Ari Shavit, a senior Israeli reporter who is frequently critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

The White House and State Department have used misleading claims to respond to criticisms that a clause in the nuclear deal giving Iran 24 days to explain a suspicious nuclear site will allow the Islamic Republic to sanitize or hide illicit material. On a page of the White House website set up to explain the deal...

Nuclear proliferation experts have raised serious questions about a provision in the recently-agreed nuclear deal that allows Iran up to 24 days to address suspicions of unlawful nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), The New York Times reported today. Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director-general of the IAEA,...