Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traveled to the Iraqi border on June 18 to pledge his country will do whatever it takes to protect the holiest sites in Shia Islam, which are located in southern Iraq. Rouhani said there are petitions from Iranians who are willing “to destroy the terrorists and...

As talks between Iran and the P5+1 global powers resumed this week in Vienna, the Los Angeles Times published comments from one senior State Department official stating that “significant differences” remain as the parties approach the July 20 deadline set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) passes: “There are...

The Obama administration’s approach toward nuclear talks with Iran is generating unease among Washington’s traditional Arab and Israeli allies – and will at a minimum need to be counterbalanced by robust pushback against other elements of Iran’s foreign policy – according to [PDF] testimony submitted last Thursday to the Senate Committee on Foreign...

Reuters on Thursday published an extensive evaluation – double bylined by the outlet’s veteran U.S. foreign policy correspondent Arshad Mohammed and its energy & environment correspondent Timothy Gardner – conveying new responses from the Obama administration to concerns over what outside experts have evaluated as seven straight months of Iran...

Reuters on Thursday conveyed comments made at a Rome conference by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi threatening that the Islamic republic “will return to 20 percent enrichment if a deal cannot be reached” between Tehran and the P5+1 global powers, which have in recent days reportedly stumbled over issues...

Gains being made across Iraq by the radical Sunni group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Wednesday, and what appeared to be further gains aimed at marching on Baghdad on Thursday –...