Negotiations between UN nuclear inspectors and Iran — aimed at securing inspector access to Iran’s Parchin military facility, where it is widely suspected that Iranian scientists conducted work related to nuclear detonations — have ended without progress. The result is consistent with multiple statements by Iranian officials over the last...

Iran’s 24th fleet will begin a new three-month tour of duty next week that will take the warship and submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to “block threats to the Islamic republic.” Similar deployments have been used as symbolic moves channeled into domestic propaganda channels, but have also been used to deliver...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday called on Palestinians to accept further Iranian assistance in targeting Israelis. Larijani made the comments in the context of a meeting with top Hamas official Emad Al-Alami, who in turn has linked Hamas’s self-described military victories over Israel to Iranian assistance. Hamas has been attempting...

Experts from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog are in Iran and will again seek access to a military complex in the country where it is widely suspected that Iranian nuclear scientists conducted tests related to nuclear detonations. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast expressed opposition to providing the IAEA inspectors access to the Parchin facility,...

Washington should enhance “constraints on supply of goods Iran needs for its nuclear and missile programs,” the American non-partisan Project on U.S. Middle East Nonproliferation Strategy said in a new report on the Iranian nuclear program. The group emphasizes that Iran’s atomic program violates international law along multiple dimensions, including putting...

The director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency has expressed pessimism that Iran will adopt measures to increase transparency around its military facility at Parchin. The agency wants access to the site in order to investigate reports that Iran conducted activity there linked to the development of nuclear explosives. International...