Iran has been trying for years to strengthen its presence in Mauritania and make it a base through which Tehran can expand its control in North Africa. Concern in the country is growing (Arab link) over Iran’s increasingly visible meddling in domestic affairs, including through the propagation of Shiite religious principles. Like Iran,...

Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief of The Washington Post who has been detained in Iran for almost nine months, will be charged with espionage and three other crimes, according to his lawyer, Leilah Ahsan, the paper reported yesterday. According to Ms. Ahsan’s statement, translated from Persian and provided by...

The United States has deployed two more naval vessels to Yemen, “sending a message” to Iran to stop arming Houthi rebels there, The New York Times reported Monday. “This is really about sending a message,” said an American official who declined to be identified as discussing a continuing military operation....

Former Bush administration official Michael Doran asserted that a “coercive component” would be essential to convincing Iran to give up its nuclear program in an interview published today with Max Fisher of the online publication Vox. When asked by Fisher if the goal of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear...

The “loss of moral self-confidence” exemplified by the United States in its nuclear negotiations with Iran “threatens not only the United States and Israel but also the people of Iran and a growing number of others living under Tehran’s increasingly emboldened rule,” former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky wrote Friday in...

The Obama administration is looking to provide Iran with up to $50 billion in sanctions relief upon the signing of a nuclear deal, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Friday. The Obama administration estimates Iran has between $100 billion and $140 billion of its oil revenue frozen in offshore accounts as a...