The Obama administration is softening reported past resistance to a potential Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The shift is modest and – inasmuch as the administration’s actual position has been guarded by the highest levels of secrecy – difficult to measure. Nonetheless the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate Amos Yadlin...

In 2006 proliferation experts began to call attention to Iran’s efforts to build a “plutonium bomb factory” at its Arak facility, which contains a heavy water production plant and a nuclear reactor capable of using the heavy water to produce plutonium. Last February the Telegraph published exclusive images demonstrating that...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has named Hassan Rouhani’s predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iran’s Expediency Council, a top arbitration body that has supervisory and arbitration powers over other parts of the Iranian government, including the country’s powerful Council of Guardians. In announcing the appointment, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised Ahmadinejad’s “worthy efforts”...

Recently inaugurated Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged this week to “stand by [the Bashar al-Assad regime] in facing all challenges,” adding fuel to a fiery debate raging in the foreign policy community over the degree to which the revolutionary cleric is willing or able to alter Iran’s confrontational posture toward the West....

The official Twitter feed of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei today lashed out amid renewed peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials, emphasizing instead that Israel must be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Any operational plan 4 Palestinian cause should be based on “All #Palestine for...

Iranian state media reported this week on statements made by Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi in which the powerful Iranian official – Naqdi is the commander of the Basij paramilitary force – explained the sources of regional instability and how to solve them. A lot, it turns out, hangs on the Jewish...