An advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was a “red line” that Iran would not cross, Reuters reported on Sunday. “Bashar al-Assad is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s red line because he was elected president by the Syrian people,”...

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In addition to her reported remarks about taking the U.S.-Israel relationship “to the next level,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday called for a “strengthened” relationship between the two countries based on their common interest in fighting Iranian aggression. According to a transcript (.pdf) provided by the Brookings...

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The recently released International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran’s illicit nuclear activities raises concerns about the extent of the regime’s covert nuclear research, and suggests that future enforcement of the nuclear deal will be impossible. The IAEA’s investigative report, which was published last week, determined that Iran was conducting...

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s past nuclear research at the Parchin military site must remain open due to Iran’s lies to the agency, a leading nuclear research think tank wrote in a report (.pdf) published Thursday. The report, written by David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini of the Institute for Science and...

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The world’s interest in reaching a nuclear deal with Iran has compelled it to ignore the regime’s extensive human rights abuses, leaving its many “political prisoners, torture victims and persecuted ethnic minorities with little hope of any respite,” Rahim Hamid wrote in The Telegraph on Tuesday. Hamid is a member...

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Payam Feili, an openly gay Iranian poet who faced intense persecution in his country over his sexual orientation and political views, arrived in Israel this Sunday to promote the Hebrew translation of his book Three Reasons and attend the premier of a play based on the work, The Times of...

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Iran’s attempt to advance a military nuclear program from the late 1980s is at the heart of its decades-long violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Its secret work on the development of a nuclear bomb encapsulates the deceptive behavior that lost Iran the trust of the international community, and...

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s nuclear history failed to address fundamental questions about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, arms control experts at the Institute for Science and International Security argued in a report issued Wednesday. • Despite obfuscation and stonewalling by Iran, the IAEA confirmed that Iran...

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A recently released investigative report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, concluded that Iran did work on developing a nuclear weapon, despite the regime’s claims to the contrary, the Associated Press wrote on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s report was significant in coming...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is perpetuating the presence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq while undermining American national interests in the Middle East, Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow and expert on Iran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Wednesday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing....

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