Reuters on Thursday conveyed details of a conversation between Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, in which Lew expressed concern over a Russian-Iranian oil-for-goods deal: “Secretary Lew reiterated our serious concerns regarding reports of a possible deal between Russia and Iran involving oil-for-goods,” a Treasury representative said in a...

The New York Times reported this week that Iran and the global P5+1 powers had concluded two days of talks but are still far from a final agreement: The lead negotiators, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Catherine Ashton, the top foreign policy official of the European Union, made the...

The House of Representatives today passed a bill denying admission to anyone “who has engaged in espionage activities against the United States, poses a threat to United States national security interests, or has engaged in a terrorist activity against the United States,” to serve as representatives to the United Nations. Though...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday ruled out concessions on what he described as Iran’s “nuclear achievements,” the latest in a line of repeated and explicit statements from top Iranian officials ruling out moves that Western analysts and the Obama administration consider minimal conditions necessary to verifiably put the Islamic...

Spain’s Civil Guard, its national police force, announced  on Monday the arrest of four men for attempting to export “dual use” technology to Iran. According to CNN, the suspects, three Spaniards and one Iranian, were charged with “suspicion of contraband in dual-use material, belonging to a criminal organization and money...

Iran “did not inform” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of all the details it was obligated to under the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) that Iran is a signatory to, bragged a former head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization in an interview last month. The interview was translated this week....