Secretary of State John Kerry’s remark earlier this week that “We’re not fixated on Iran specifically accounting for what they did at one point in time or another” has caused concern among lawmakers that the White House has stepped back from its previous demand that Iran must come clean about its past...

Police in Bahrain announced today that they had seized Iranian-made explosives intended for terrorist use against neighboring Saudi Arabia. Reuters reported: In a statement, police chief Major-General Tariq al-Hasan said the techniques used in the manufacture of the explosives bore “clear similarities” to methods used by what it called proxy groups of Iran’s Islamic...

The emerging nuclear deal with Iran will not “end Iran’s ability and motivation to have a nuclear-weapons option” wrote Aaron David Miller, a State Department official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, in an analysis published today in Time. After noting that the likely result of the deal is the emergence of “a...

AIPAC issued a statement calling Secretary of State John Kerry’s comments, apparently retreating from a demand that Iran come clean about all of its past nuclear work, “disturbing,” The Jerusalem Post reported today. AIPAC’s statement was one of concern that, after sealing a framework to a nuclear deal with Iran, the US was...

President Barack Obama is considering appointing a “czar” to oversee an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Politico reported Wednesday. But some critics are questioning whether such an appointment will be able to ensure that a nuclear deal would be effective. An Obama administration official confirmed that one option under consideration is having...

Iranian women are hoping to attend the June 19 volleyball match between Iran and the United States at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, but official and unofficial forces are arrayed against them, according to a report published Wednesday in The Daily Beast. Although Iran’s vice-president for women’s affairs has said that 500 women will...

The erosion of sanctions against Iran over the past year and a half, which led to increased business ties with Western companies, has lessened the economic pressure on Iran to make a deal limiting its nuclear infrastructure, argued an editorial (Google link) published today in The Wall Street Journal. The Journal noted that increased commercial interest in Iran...

Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip, has rejected a move by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the unity government it agreed to last year, Agence France-Presse reported today. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah presented Wednesday the resignation of the unity government to PA...

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Secretary of State John Kerry asserted that Iran will not be required to account for its past nuclear work as part of any nuclear deal. At a press briefing yesterday, Kerry said: Michael, the possible military dimensions, frankly, gets distorted a little bit in some of the discussion, in that...