The New York Times revealed this weekend that the United States was “open” to an agreement with Iran that would allow the Islamic Republic to unplug the “plumbing” on its uranium enrichment infrastructure in exchange for wide-ranging sanctions relief, functionally reversing what had long been the West’s insistence that the...

In an interview on Friday with the Foreign Policy Association, Foundation for Defense of Democracies executive director Mark Dubowitz explained that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the hardliners of the regime have identical goals, with both seeking “the achievement of nuclear weapons capacity” for Iran. In response to a question...

In an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Friday, foreign policy experts Dennis Ross, Eric Edelman, and Ray Tayekh argued that “the theocratic Iranian regime and its attempt to upend the regional order remains the United States’ most consequential long-term challenge in the Middle East.” The op-ed notes that after 9/11,...

Former Canadian Minister of Justice and long time human rights advocate Irwin Cotler outlined on Thursday the numerous ways that the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani “has presided over a regime that continues to engage in massive repression.” Cotler evaluates six categories of human rights violations that have persisted or...

Yesterday, the IDF’s official blog presented an analysis by a senior IDF officer concerning the security challenges facing Israel on its northern border with Lebanon. According to the report, Hezbollah is continuing to affirm its presence in the area, and “for the first time in years, Hezbollah flags can be seen near the...

Western powers on Thursday criticized Iran for its ongoing refusal to provide the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) with the cooperation that the agency requires to fully investigate the so-called “possible military dimensions” (PMDs) of Tehran’s atomic program, statements that the BBC conveyed alongside an assessment from officials that ‘a breakthrough in...