Politico yesterday reported on a confrontation between State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki and Fox News’s Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen, in which Rosen pressed Psaki on statements made in February by State’s then-spokesperson Victoria Nuland, in which Nuland was asked about the existence of bilateral talks with Tehran: With current State Department spokesperson...

The Washington Post on Thursday described the interim agreement signed between the global P5+1 powers and Iran as “notable for its omissions,” and expressed concern over the deal: But the agreement leaves the United States and its partners at a disadvantage in negotiating the comprehensive settlement. The concessions made to Iran will...

A statement issued last week by Yukiya Amano, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, emphasizes that the organization continues to be concerned about possible clandestine elements in Iran’s nuclear program oriented toward the production of a nuclear weapon: The Agency continues to verify the...

TIME reports that Saudi Arabia is considering acquiring nuclear weapons – almost certain to be purchased off the shelf from Pakistan, the nuclear program of which Riyadh sponsored – in response to fears that the international community is positioning Iran to complete what is widely believed to be its drive toward producing...

The State Department acknowledged last week that the recently announced agreement widely described as freezing Iran’s nuclear program in fact permits Tehran to continue construction at its Arak complex, after statements by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif committed the Islamic republic to bolstering the plutonium facility during the agreement’s six-month interim period: The...

The Jerusalem Post, conveying a report from the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai, today described statements by senior British diplomatic sources revealing that London has been facilitating secret indirect talks between the Obama administration and Hezbollah, a group that is designated as a terrorist organization under U.S. law: Senior British diplomatic sources, quoted in...