Analysts and diplomats continue to debate the consequences of a potential military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Last week Israel’s minister for international affairs Yuval Steinitz told an interviewer that Iranian retaliation against Israel in the aftermath of any strike would do “very limited damage” because Israel “can intercept many”...

An expose published over the weekend by the Washington Post highlights the role that all-expense-paid trips to Iranian indoctrination camps are playing in the Islamic republic’s ongoing efforts to penetrate the Americas. Tehran has sought for decades to bolster its presence in Latin America. Iranian strategists reportedly view the region...

In an op-ed published the call in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, top U.S. lawmakers Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) called for “immediate steps” to increase pressure on Iran, urging the Senate to enact new sanctions as “the only way to persuade the Iranian leadership to change course.”  . The...

Concerns that began to emerge early this week regarding extremists inside the proposed cabinet of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani deepened this week. Rouhani has promised to moderate Iran’s foreign policy, but observers have raised concerns that his new foreign policy team is committed to bolstering Hezbollah, and that he himself is...

The Iranian parliament began debate yesterday on the proposed cabinet of newly inaugurated president Hassan Rouhani. A formal vote of confidence is expected to follow. Western analysts had already described the cabinet as stacked with regime insiders drawn from Iran’s security services. Particular concerns are now being raised, however, over Rouhani’s proposed foreign policy...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday lashed out against renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, calling on the Muslim world to support the Palestinian cause and condemn Israel: “The Muslim world must not back down from its support for Palestine, and it should condemn the oppressive action of fierce Zionist wolves and...