In testimony before a House of Representatives hearing Wednesday, former Treasury Department official Jonathan Schanzer warned that the sanctions relief being offered to Iran as part of ongoing nuclear negotiations threatens to make “much more terror finance” available to terror groups, The Hill reported yesterday. A former Treasury Department official raised concerns on...

In prepared testimony (.pdf) before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday, David Albright, founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, stated that the emerging agreement with Iran over its nuclear program needs to be significantly strengthened, particularly when it comes to verifying compliance with the deal....

In an apparent reversal, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said that it would not deliver S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Iran in the “near future.” The Times of Israel reported today: Russia will not deliver the S-300 missile defense system to Iran in the near future, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was...

Responding to a recent remark by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif boasting of Iran’s “tolerance” of Jews, Shahrzad Elghanayan stated in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post that the current regime in Tehran “can’t take credit for it.” Shahrzad, who is Jewish, noted that the revolutionary government executed her grandfather following a twenty-minute...

Chinese estimates of the size of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal have increased in recent years, and are now higher than American estimates, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. The latest Chinese estimates, relayed in a closed-door meeting with U.S. nuclear specialists, showed that North Korea may already have...

Warning that the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran is weakening friends and strengthening enemies, former State Department official Aaron David Miller observed Wednesday in a commentary written for CNN that in the battle for influence in the Middle East, the United States is being “outfoxed, not outgunned” by Iran. Miller contrasted Iran’s...