The State Department on Thursday denied claims, published earlier that day in Al Monitor’s Congress Pulse, that Secretary of State John Kerry told a group of lawmakers earlier that day that new sanctions on Iran could trigger a breakthrough in nuclear talks between Tehran and the West: US Secretary of...

Journalists on Wednesday pressed White House and State Department spokespeople on a set of commitments – made months ago to lawmakers and reporters – in which top administration officials defended nuclear negotiations with Iran by insisting that if talks failed they would cooperate with Congress in imposing new sanctions on...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday told reporters in Vienna that “very real gaps” remain between Iran and the P5+1 global powers as the parties work to reach an agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program ahead of the July 20 expiry of the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA): Kerry,...

The Daily Beast on Monday assessed that the easing of sanctions on Tehran, as reported in a newly released study by Roubini Global Economics and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), has allowed the Iranian economy to begin to recover, “undercutting Western leverage” ahead of the July 20 deadline...

The Wall Street Journal on Friday conveyed and confirmed figures – first aired a few weeks ago – indicating that Iranian crude oil exports had exceeded for the eighth month in a row restrictions imposed by the Joint Plan of Action (JPA): Still, Iranian crude exports—excluding condensates—stood at around 1.1 million...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing the Obama administration to work more closely with Congress as the P5+1 powers near the July 20 deadline to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran that would force the Islamic republic to put its atomic program beyond use for weaponization. In a letter...