Matthew Kroenig, a former Defense Department official in both the Bush and Obama administrations, argued in an article published today in Tablet that the nuclear deal with Iran currently being pursued by the Obama administration, which will allow Iran to maintain its capacity for uranium enrichment, is an abandonment of a “70-year-old bipartisan...

An Israeli cybersecurity firm released a report on Iranian hacking efforts primarily targeting Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Yemen, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. The Israeli ClearSky cybersecurity company said it has discovered an ongoing wave of cyber attacks originating from Iran on targets in Israel and the Middle East. The...

Iran is sending arms and money to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. Afghan and Western officials say Tehran has quietly increased its supply of weapons, ammunition and funding to the Taliban, and is now recruiting and training their fighters, posing a new...

In a public debate last month against an advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollahi Ali Khamenei, Prof. Sadegh Zibakalam of Tehran University, who is associated with the reformist movement in Iran, argued that Iran’s enrichment program has been expensive for the country with little benefit. His remarks were translated Tuesday by the Middle...

The United States and the other Western nations involved in the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran are prepared to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program despite Iran’s refusal to fully come clean about all of its past nuclear research, the Associated Press reported today. After a November 2013 interim...

Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iran would not commit to the transparency measures insisted on by the United States until they “see the final text,” Reuters reported today. The United States urged Iran to implement the so-called Additional Protocol, which allows more intrusive access...