The New York Times has evaluated the significance of statements made this weekend by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, especially as they relate the possibility that Western overtures for new talks may prove successful: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threw some cold water on recent efforts to reinvigorate diplomatic...

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani’s incoming administration will make a point of reinforcing revolutionary ideology, including enforcing aspirations aimed at Israel and Jerusalem. That, at least, is the assessment from the Representative of the Supreme Leader in the Central Province:   Representative of the Supreme Leader in the Central Province said...

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani this week pledged support for the embattled regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. The Iranian proxies were celebrated by the Iranian official, who many had hoped would emerge as a moderate and a reformer, because of their willingness to...

Iran will be ready to begin discussing renewed negotiations, according to the country’s foreign minister, just as soon as the regime gets around to forming a new negotiating team. The team is to be composed by President-elect Hassan Rouhani after his inauguration, though Rouhani and his team have little control...

Hassan Rouhani is easing into his August 4 inauguration by dismissing Israel as a “miserable” country that makes him “laugh.” The boasts are in line with Rouhani’s status as a “consummate regime insider,” but align uneasily with declarations from corners of the foreign policy and journalistic communities describing him as...

Outgoing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has moved to create an entire agency within the presidential office that will ensure his continued influence after the inauguration of his successor, Hassan Rohani. Bloomberg conveyed reports Tehran-based newspapers on what’s to be called the “Former President’s Office:” The office will be staffed by...