Iran has insisted that it will not give up its 3.5% low enriched uranium (LEU), and this weekend an Iranian MP this weekend also foreclosed concessions on Iran’s enrichment technology, specifically its underground enrichment military bunker at Fordow. The stance is likely to complicate efforts to reassure the international community...

Last Wednesday, Hoover Institute fellow Fouad Ajami criticized how some diplomats and journalists have “… isolated the nuclear issue from the broader context of Iran’s behavior in the region.” On the same day Washington Institute fellow Matthew Levitt described three decades of Iranian terrorism, including terrorism targeting American overseas and...

Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Thursday that Washington would not offer sanctions relief to Iran in the absence of “concrete steps” to address international concerns over its nuclear program, which roughly half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions have called for dismantling. “We are not contemplating anything that removes...

Leaked accounts of Iran’s nuclear offer indicate that the Islamic regime may be looking to accept more intrusive inspections in exchange for Western acceptance of ongoing Iranian enrichment activity. Analysis stretching back months, including testimony presented to Congress, has highlighted how such an arrangement – under which Iran would bolster...

The United Nation’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran has told the U.N. General Assembly that there have been no fundamental improvements in Iran’s human rights situation despite token but welcome gestures undertaken since the election of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on human...

Iran has publicly signaled that the international community’s demands that it halt enrichment, codified in half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions, is a non-starter. The New York Times has explained that Iran has installed thousands of new centrifuges in the last year, many of them more sophisticated than...