Iran will not be obligated to account for all of its past nuclear work under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), leading “a number of lawmakers to conclude the U.S. and world powers will never get to the bottom of the country’s alleged efforts to build an atomic weapon,”...

Allowing Iran to collect the environmental samples from suspected nuclear sites that will be submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency for review would make the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action a “dangerous farce,” former CIA intelligence analyst Fred Fleitz wrote Friday in National Review Online. Fleitz’s warning came after...

A clause in the nuclear deal suggests that Iran may unilaterally withdraw from the agreement and pursue its military nuclear program if the West attempts to impose sanctions due to violations of the deal, nonproliferation expert Emily Landau of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) wrote today in an op-ed she co-authored in...

In an exchange at yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew refused to answer Sen. Robert Menendez (D – N.J.) when he asked whether the administration would support an effort by Congress to reauthorize sanctions legislation against Iran, which is set to expire next year. A video...

United States intelligence agencies have confirmed that Syria’s President, Bashad al-Assad, remains in possession of chemical weapons, The Times of Israel reported today. In 2013, Assad capitulated to international demands that he relinquish Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal after his regime used sarin gas against civilians in Damascus. According to the...

Sen. Chris Coons (D – Del.) questioned the American negotiating team behind the recently concluded nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), over the agreement’s weaknesses at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday. Addressing Secretary of State John Kerry, Coons asked if the...