Iran is continuing to expand a military facility where it is widely suspected the regime conducted work relevant to developing nuclear warheads, including advanced detonation testing of triggers for nuclear weapons. New satellite photos published by the Daily Telegraph show renewed construction at the Parchin facility, which is on an Iranian military base:...

The Iranian regime – second only to Turkey in imprisoning journalists last year, and identified by Freedom House as among “the worst of the worst” for press freedoms – widened its crackdown on reporters throughout this month. The Green Voice of Freedom, a site associated with the Green Movement that emerged...

Israeli officials are adding their voices to those of U.S., E.U., and U.N. officials accusing Iran of using negotiations to stall for time as it develops clandestine elements of its atomic program widely believed to be linked to weaponization.  The talks’ failure was unsurprising to members of the P5+1,  a senior Israeli official...

Talks in Kazakhstan between the P5+1 and Iran have ended without any evident progress. This comes as no surprise, since Iran entered the talks with a posture described by analysts as “defiant.”  Reports indicate that Iran emerged from the talks upbeat. Going in, Western expectations were described as low, and despite...

The Telegraph has published images showing that Iran has activated the heavy-water production plant in its Arak complex. Heavy water is necessary to operate nuclear reactors capable of producing plutonium, which Tehran could then process further to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The published images show a cloud of steam that...

Taking into account the global nonproliferation regime, the effect of sanctions on Iran, and the internal political situations in Iran, the New York Times evaluates the prospects for a breakthrough in today’s P5+1 talks in Kazakhstan and deems them… not great: When Iran’s nuclear negotiating team sits down with its Western...