Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Tuesday called for additional sanctions on Iran in the event that efforts for Iran and the P5+1 to reach a framework agreement by March 2015 are unsuccessful. Menendez’s comments, delivered at the Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO council meeting, come just after...

New details are emerging about the report released yesterday by the American cyber security firm Cylance, concerning Iran’s aggressive global cyber-attacks. Cylance has dubbed the Iranian campaign “Operation Cleaver.” Computerworld reports: The attackers used publicly available attack tools and exploits, as well as specialized malware programs they created themselves. Cylance believes...

President Barack Obama has selected former Pentagon official Ashton Carter to serve as his next Secretary of Defense, according to reports. Carter, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense—the Pentagon’s second-highest position—from 2011-2013 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, is perceived to be particularly strong on nuclear non-proliferation issues, which may have implications...

Iran’s Arab minority has recently begun to intensify its protests against government discrimination, The Tower has learned from Iranian opposition media sites and organizations. The Ahwazi Arab minority living in Iran’s oil-rich southwest region is protesting pervasive unemployment, lack of basic urban services, severe shortage of appropriate infrastructure- including basic...

The American cyber security firm Cylance released a report detailing massive Iranian hacking attacks, according to Reuters today. Aerospace firms, airports and airlines, universities, energy firms, hospitals, and telecommunications operators based in the United States, Israel, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, France, England have been hit by the campaign, the research...

Foreign investors from more than half a dozen major automobile corporations flocked to Tehran this week to participate in the country’s auto show, driving concerns that the Iranian economy is steadily recovering amid a de-escalation in sanctions pressure on the Islamic republic. Experts have for more than a year warned...