The Wall Street Journal last night broke the details on the package of concessions that Iran is preparing to offer the West in upcoming talks. The offer will, if accurately described, fall short of explicit U.S. demands outlined in recent weeks, which were underlined by repeated statements from top State...

North Korea announced yesterday that it was placing its military on high alert. It warnedthe United States of “disastrous consequences” and an “unexpected horrible disaster” after the U.S. moved naval assets, including an aircraft carrier, into a South Korean port for what officials described as a routine trilateral search and...

National Security Adviser Susan Rice has stated that the administration will not accept any deal would “let Iran enrich its own uranium.” The State Department’s top figures, including Secretary of State John Kerry, subsequently stated multiple times that it considers no deal better than a deal that falls short of...

Analysts have worried since literally the first hours after the election of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani that the revolutionary-era cleric, who ran on a platform more moderate than his fellow regime-approved candidates, would be hamstrung by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Supreme Leader controls Iran’s nuclear policy, and had...

Iranian ex-pats living in Israel have evaluated claims suggesting that the Islamic republic’s newly inaugurated president Hassan Rouhani will moderate Iran’s foreign and domestic policies. “Deeply skeptical” is how the Jerusalem Post described their reactions: Salome Worch was born in Iran, grew up and spent most of her adult life...

Analysts and journalists continued today to chew over recently posted footage showing Iranian president Hassan Rouhani boasting that he used negotiations with the West during the 2000’s to stall for time while Iran locked in its nuclear infrastructure. The Times of Israel, which brought renewed attention to the video, also...