In a speech yesterday before Iranian air force commanders, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the idea of a political framework, which both Iran and the P5+1 nations agreed to when they extended the Joint Plan of Action this past November. According to a translation of Khamenei’s speech he said:...

Yemeni political and security officials are concerned over the Turkish Airlines decision to increase its flights from the Istanbul to Aden in Yemen. The Yemenis are not hiding their concern that the purpose of the flights is to move Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists into the territory of Yemen....

Addressing Iran’s expanding role in the Middle East, The Washington Post editorial board wrote on Friday that “the Obama administration has declined to counter increasingly aggressive efforts by Iran to extend its influence across the Middle East and seems ready to concede Tehran a place as a regional power at...

Iran sought to block a condemnation of Syria for using chemical weapons at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Colum Lynch of Foreign Policy reported Wednesday. According to Lynch: Iran tried to block a move by the United States and Russia to present a mildly worded statement to...

President Barack Obama “suspects a bipartisan majority would oppose the deal he is prepared to make” with Iran, a staff editorial asserted today in The Washington Post. The editorial cited three concerns about the emerging deal identified by “authorities ranging from Henry Kissinger, the country’s most senior former secretary of state,...

An Iranian diplomat was expelled from Uruguay two weeks ago after a bomb detonated near the Israeli embassy there, according to a report published in Ha’aretz today. Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the...