JNS.org – Here’s the latest episode of outreach to Iran from the lips of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. After condemning, during a press conference in Bahrain, the “destabilizing actions” of Iran in the Middle East, he then followed up with a plea. “Help us end the war in...

Democratic and Republican senators expressed a desire to pursue tougher sanctions on Iran in response to its destabilizing and aggressive activities, as well as frustration over the Obama administration’s changing positions on Iran’s ballistic missile tests and its access to dollar transactions, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday. Several...

The Obama administration’s reported plan to provide Iran with access to the U.S. dollar and American financial markets is meeting bipartisan opposition in Congress. U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are arguing that “the White House has backtracked on commitments made to Congress last summer to maintain financial pressure...

A joint letter sent by the United States and European Union to United Nations officials this week criticizes recent Iranian ballistic missile launches but omits language describing the launches as a “violation” of the UN Security Council resolution that codified the nuclear deal with Iran, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The outlet’s UN...

State Department spokesperson John Kirby declined to address growing concerns from experts and Congress about the Obama administration’s reported plans to extend additional sanctions relief to Iran during a press briefing on Tuesday. Associated Press correspondent Matt Lee pointedly asked Kirby if, “despite assurances that the Administration gave to lawmakers over the...

Bills that aim to place sanctions on Iran due to the continued development of its ballistic missile program are a “good start,” a Wall Street Journal editorial argued on Tuesday. Past UN Security Council resolutions demanded that Iran “shall not” develop ballistic missiles, but Resolution 2231, which is one of the main components of last year’s nuclear deal, only...