Thousands of people attended funerals on Thursday of eight Iranian citizens killed in clashes in Syria, calling into question the government’s claim that it has not sent any combatants to support the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Iranian officials claim that those who died were “volunteers” rather than government-backed soldiers, and...

In response to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s recent speech opposing international inspections of military sites or revealing Iran’s past nuclear work, President Barack Obama and the United States “must be ready” to “walk away rather than accept a bad deal,” the editors of The Washington Post argued in an editorial...

A delayed human rights report issued this week by the State Department was harshly critical of Iran, The Hill reported yesterday. The Obama administration accused Iran of “severe restrictions on civil liberties,” “disregard” for people’s physical safety and general abuse of human rights on Thursday, days before a deadline for...

By changing course and “halting the Iranians’ path toward nuclear capability,” the Obama administration could reverse what is potentially “one of the greatest missteps” in history and strengthen the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published today...

Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, called the recently released United Nations Human Rights Council report on last year’s Operation Protective Edge “dangerous” in an op-ed published today in The New York Times. One area of Kemp’s critique focused on the commission members’ ignorance of...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that recent comments made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “do not seem to go in [the] direction” of supporting a “robust” nuclear deal, Reuters reported Wednesday. “France wants a deal but wants the deal to be robust, a good deal, but not a bad...