Last year, in response to accusations that it was allowing Iran to evade international sanctions, Georgia issued a flat denial. This morning, the Wall Street Journal evaluated that denial and came away… unimpressed: In recent months, Iranian nationals have taken the reins of a private Georgian airline, a major trade...

Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani served on the Iranian government committee that approved the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina that killed 85 people. Former Iranian intelligence official Abolghasem Mesbahi, who defected from Iran in the late 1990s, testified that the decision to launch the attack was...

Speaking at the fifth annual President’s Conference in Jerusalem, Quartet Representative Tony Blair ran through multiple scenarios under which Iran could be pressured economically and militarily, with varying degrees of success, regarding the opacity of its nuclear program. The former British Prime Minister declared that, of all the scenarios, an...

The United Nations has been declining to publish a detailed report – one which has already been approved by the U.N. Security Council sanctions committee – detailing the degree to which Iran has been able to dodge existing sanctions. Somebody somewhere wanted the report to see the light of day,...

“Mourning for Children: the Sins of fathers” is a powerful essay, which is not officially allowed to be read or cited in Iran. But it is the talk of the town and gossip among Tehran’s political, business, and academic circles. It was published in November, 2011, by Ali Reza Nourizadeh,...

Observers are expressing concerns over the past activities and future intentions of Iranian president-elect and revolutionary-era cleric Hassan Rouhani, who won Iran’s Friday election after a purge of candidates by the country’s powerful Guardian Council, coupled with a subsequent drop-out by another candidate, left him as the relatively most moderate candidate....