Washington is seeking to downplay tensions with Riyadh over the West’s recent diplomacy with Iran, after Saudi Arabian Prince Turki al-Faisal was quoted by the Wall Street Journal this weekend highlighting deep skepticism inside Kingdom and within other Gulf countries regarding a deal announced last month between the P5+1 global...

National Journal last night reported that progress is being made on advancing bipartisan Senate legislation that would impose sanctions on Iran if the Islamic republic fails to dismantle its nuclear program during an upcoming negotiation period. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, the lead Republican working on a bipartisan Iran sanctions bill, told reporters...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told CBS News this weekend that Iran is willing to restart implementation talks revolving around  the recently announced Geneva interim agreement. “We are committed to the plan of action and the implementation of Geneva – but we believe it takes two to tango,” Zarif said. “The process...

Statements from a top Saudi Arabian official published over the weekend have the potential to deepen concerns that the US’s traditional Arab allies are preparing to pivot away from Washington – and potentially towards American rivals – as actors throughout the region continue sorting themselves into three solidifying and opposing camps. The Wall Street...

Turkey is preparing to exploit the reduction in Iran’s financial and diplomatic isolation, threatening to undermine Obama administration assertions that the relief granted to the Islamic republic under the recently announced Joint Plan of Action is “limited, temporary, targeted, and reversible.” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense...

There is ‘no end in sight’ for talks aimed at implementing the Geneva interim agreement announced last month between the global P5+1 powers and Iran, according to an Agence France-Presse article that was published last week. “There are definite differences of opinion on the interpretation (of the Geneva text). Not that I...