Iran

America’s Middle Eastern allies are concerned that they “haven’t had their say” in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, told Luke Russert this morning in an interview (embedded below) on The Briefing on MSNBC. Hazony’s argument is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t just be representing Israel...

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A bipartisan bill requiring Congressional review of any nuclear deal agreed to with Iran was introduced in the Senate Friday. The lead senators on the bill are Bob Corker (R – Tenn.), Robert Menendez (D- N.J.), Lindsey Graham (R- S.C. ) and Tim Kaine (D-Va. ). Josh Rogin in Bloomberg View reports: According to...

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The only diplomacy that will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons is diplomacy that will force Iran “to make a choice between its nuclear infrastructure and the fuel cycle on the one hand, and access to nuclear peaceful and economic relief on the other,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The...

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Saying that “[t]his process cannot continue indefinitely,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today released its latest findings about Iran’s nuclear program and reported that Iran is still not cooperating with the nuclear watchdog, in violation of the commitments it made in the November 2013 Joint Plan of Action (JPOA)....

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Iran is stepping up its offensive against rebels in southern Syria, exacerbating “the tensions on Israel’s northern border,” Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, and Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published yesterday. The Iran/Hezbollah/Assad troika has long threatened to develop the...

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Anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne gave a gift of a golden “quennelle” to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to the Islamic Republic, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Friday: Dieudonne visited the Islamic Republic last week, the news site fararu.com reported, and presented Ahmadinejad with a golden statue of...

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