Responding to a recent remark by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif boasting of Iran’s “tolerance” of Jews, Shahrzad Elghanayan stated in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post that the current regime in Tehran “can’t take credit for it.” Shahrzad, who is Jewish, noted that the revolutionary government executed her grandfather following a twenty-minute...

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Warning that the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran is weakening friends and strengthening enemies, former State Department official Aaron David Miller observed Wednesday in a commentary written for CNN that in the battle for influence in the Middle East, the United States is being “outfoxed, not outgunned” by Iran. Miller contrasted Iran’s...

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In response to an attack by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, Saudi Arabia resumed air strikes today against the rebels in Yemen, CNN reported. The resumption of air strikes comes less than a day after Saudi Arabia announced that it was ending the air war against the Houthis and seeking a diplomatic solution...

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The United States government has known for “several years” that Iran’s breakout time—the amount of time required to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb—is only two to three months, but only declassified the information recently, Eli Lake reported today for Bloomberg View. Lake noted that in 2013, when President...

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The former commander of the Israeli Air Force has warned that it will be one or two years before the full implications of a deal with Iran over its nuclear program are properly understood. “If we don’t see a violation the day after any deal is agreed, that doesn’t mean...

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Iran has been trying for years to strengthen its presence in Mauritania and make it a base through which Tehran can expand its control in North Africa. Concern in the country is growing (Arab link) over Iran’s increasingly visible meddling in domestic affairs, including through the propagation of Shiite religious principles. Like Iran,...

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Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief of The Washington Post who has been detained in Iran for almost nine months, will be charged with espionage and three other crimes, according to his lawyer, Leilah Ahsan, the paper reported yesterday. According to Ms. Ahsan’s statement, translated from Persian and provided by...

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The United States has deployed two more naval vessels to Yemen, “sending a message” to Iran to stop arming Houthi rebels there, The New York Times reported Monday. “This is really about sending a message,” said an American official who declined to be identified as discussing a continuing military operation....

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Former Bush administration official Michael Doran asserted that a “coercive component” would be essential to convincing Iran to give up its nuclear program in an interview published today with Max Fisher of the online publication Vox. When asked by Fisher if the goal of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear...

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The “loss of moral self-confidence” exemplified by the United States in its nuclear negotiations with Iran “threatens not only the United States and Israel but also the people of Iran and a growing number of others living under Tehran’s increasingly emboldened rule,” former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky wrote Friday in...

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