The United States and the other Western nations involved in the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran are prepared to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program despite Iran’s refusal to fully come clean about all of its past nuclear research, the Associated Press reported today. After a November 2013 interim...

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Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iran would not commit to the transparency measures insisted on by the United States until they “see the final text,” Reuters reported today. The United States urged Iran to implement the so-called Additional Protocol, which allows more intrusive access...

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Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the emerging nuclear deal with Iran as “wishful thinking” in his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Fox New reported: “It is clear that the nuclear deal is not a permanent fix but merely a placeholder,” he...

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The Obama administration is poised to redefine many terror and human rights sanctions imposed on Iran as nuclear-related sanctions, with an eye towards lifting them and providing a greater boost to Iran’s economy as part of an emerging nuclear deal, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. According to anonymous officials quoted...

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Iran will “take legal action” against the United States if the U.S. prevents an Iranian airline with ties to terrorist groups from flying recently purchased planes, Reuters reported today. Iran’s Mahan Air, blacklisted by Washington, bought eight second-hand Airbus A340s and one Airbus A321 in May in defiance of U.S. sanctions....

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The United States has cut funding to a program “intended [to] foster an independent moderate Shiite voice” in Lebanon, leading critics to fault the move as an effort to appease Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Tuesday. The Hayya Bina program in question was funded through the International Republican Institute,...

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A United Nations panel found that Western nations have systematically ignored Iranian violations of international sanctions so as not to jeopardize the talks over Iran’s illicit nuclear program, Bloomberg News reported today. The sanctions were put in place because of the country’s nuclear proliferation and support for terror. “The current situation with reporting...

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The second hearing in the espionage trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian was held behind closed doors in Tehran on Monday, the Post reported. The first hearing occurred two weeks ago. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency said Rezaian, a California native who has dual U.S. and Iranian citizenship because his father was...

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The United Nations’ special envoy to Syria has estimated that Iran is spending billions to prop up the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Eli Lake reported today for Bloomberg View. On Monday, a spokeswoman for the U.N. special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, told me that the envoy estimates Iran spends $6...

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano once again called on Iran to cooperate with his agency’s investigation into Iran’s past nuclear work on Monday, and said that IAEA inspectors would have to be in Iran for “years and years” in order to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is...

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