Iranian state media, displeased with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Asset Control (OFAC), has taken to the airwaves to blast the office. At issue are measures taken by OFAC against Iranian regime media outlets, including specifically Press TV: “Let’s face the facts here, the Office of Asset Control (OFAC) of the US...

There had been suggestions made by some foreign policy analysts suggesting that President-elect Hassan Rouhani’s election could “provide an opportunity” to productively engage Iran regarding the critical role being played by Tehran and its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah in bolstering the regime. Iranian parliament member Ahmad Bakhshayesh made declarations this week that seem...

Evaluating several scenarios explaining the election of Iranian cleric Hassan Rouhani to be Iran’s next president, veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross outlined in the pages of The New York Times that Rouhani’s election still doesn’t guarantee a nuclear deal: He believes that Mr. Rowhani’s election could provide a safety valve for...

Iranian MP Mehdi Sanayee, a member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, has foreclosed the possibility that the administration of president-elect Hassan Rouhani will agree to suspend uranium enrichment in the context of negotiations with the West. “The point raised by President-elect Rouhani in his press...

Asked how he could continue negotiating with Yasser Arafat even as terrorism against Israeli civilians continues, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin famously insisted that “we shall negotiate peace, as though there were no terrorism, and we shall fight terrorism as though there is no peace.” The Obama Administration and its...

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird has warned Iran that the Islamic republic only has two to three months to demonstrate to the West that it is committed to resolving the crisis surrounding its atomic program through negotiations, declaring that talks are “nearing the end.” Baird rejected suggestions, which have recently...