Washington Institute managing director Michael Singh late last week sought to outline what a nuclear deal with Iran would look like if the Obama administration and its allies pursue a strategy that holds out sanctions relief until Iran takes long-understood steps to meet roughly a half-dozen United Nations Security Council...

There has been some confusion over the degree to which the Iranian regime has moderated its rhetoric in the aftermath of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s election. On October 1st there was something of a media dust-up regarding the possibility that some top Iranian officials had ceased publicly denigrating Israel as...

The Washington Post on Thursday brushed off repeated Iranian assertions that the Islamic republic has an absolute “right” to enrich uranium, matter-of-factly noting that “no ‘right’ to enrich uranium exists in the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” that enrichment is not “needed for a nuclear program,” that “many countries using nuclear power do...

The Obama administration is said to be considering a proposal that would provide non-sanctions financial relief to Iran in exchange for Iranian nuclear program concessions, giving the administration the flexibility to reciprocate confidence building measures without threatening the delicate sanctions regime widely credited for bringing Tehran to the bargaining table....

Iran executes more people annually than any country except for China. Since the election of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani Iran has maintained a pace of executions set to match last year’s total of roughly 500. A recent column in the Washington Post noted that while Rouhani was at the United...

A major Israeli Air Force exercise continued into its second week, refocusing attention on what the Washington Post last week called “an apparent message to Iran” that the Jewish state – which has committed to preventing the Islamic republic from succeeding in what is widely seen as a drive to...