Officials in the United States and Iran promptly and explicitly denied a bombshell New York Times report outlining a secret agreement between the two countries to engage in one-on-one negotiations after the American election. U.S. National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor declared the report untrue and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali...

Foreign Policy evaluates the latest round of European Union sanctions against Iran. While recognizing that “the economic toll that U.S. and EU sanctions have taken on Iran is breathtaking,” it finds that they “are still targeted, not broad-brush measures that could grind Iran’s economy to a halt.” The magazine links...

Western diplomats are declaring that Iran is expanding its uranium enrichment capacity at the underground IRGC military base in Fordow, near Qom. Reuters quotes a diplomat linked to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the effect that Iran is continuing to install centrifuges in the facility, describing the pace...

In the last few hours, the EU voted to increase sanctions on Iran aimed at convincing the regime to increase transparency on – and then halt – what is widely believed to be an illicit nuclear weapons program. Diplomats speaking in the lead-up to the EU vote identified the sanctions...

Iran lashed out at the United Arab Emirates Tuesday over three disputed islands, marking an increasingly heated escalation in a war of words that has been growing between the two countries since the spring. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast threatened to downgrade ties with the UAE over competing claims to the...

The Obama administration launched another round of financial sanctions against Iran earlier this week, with President Obama issuing an executive order implementing Congressionally-approved sactions. The announcement comes as the International Monetary Fund published an analysis predicting that sanctions would fail to collapse the Iranian economy, and that Iran would be...