The next round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 are scheduled for next week in Geneva. While an ongoing charm offensive by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been praised for changing Iran’s tone toward the West, it has been criticized for offering zero new concessions that might move negotiations forward....

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U.S. lawmakers have already made clear what they consider to be the broad outlines of any meaningful deal surrounding Iran’s nuclear program, which is widely believed to include a clandestine weaponization component. Reflecting an emerging bipartisan consensus, Rep. Eliot Engel, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, recently...

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Celebrated claims made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani asserting that he has “full authority” to negotiate deals on behalf of Tehran may come under renewed scrutiny, after an even more celebrated phone call between Rouhani and President Barack Obama was criticized by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as “not appropriate.” Khamenei went on...

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Policy debates over Iran have consistently – over the course of many years – been bound up with events in North Korea. The nuclear programs of both countries are deeply intertwined, with Iran helping to fund Pyongyang’s weapons development and the North Koreans providing a return on Iran’s investment in...

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There has been confusion about Israeli sentiments regarding the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and skepticism which he has declared regarding diplomatic overtures toward the West being made by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Netanyahu had emphasized that the Iranians may be duplicitiously using the prospect for negotiations to lock in...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Iranian people in a rare interview Thursday with BBC Persian. He emphasized that Iranian nuclear weapons acquisition would make it functionally impossible to challenge the regime either from within or from outside, and that the result would be tragedy: Israel’s prime minister says...

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There have been halting suggestions that the U.S. – in order to encourage, or evaluate, or test Iranian intentions – should reevaluate whether to press economic sanctions against Iran. Commenting on those suggestions yesterday, Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) expressed himself unimpressed: “The Senate should not aid and abet a European...

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Iranian state media is crowing that it has been elected by a vote of the United Nations General Assembly to be the rapporteur of the U.N.’s Disarmament and International Security Committee. The election, according to Iran’s state-linked Fars news agency, was a defeat for the “Zionist regime representative” who had...

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An October 2010 deal between Iran and Egypt to resume direct flights between the two countries was described by Iran at the time as part of “a prelude to the resumption of ties between the two countries.” Iran had been seeking to shrug off international efforts to isolate Tehran, and...

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Iran has been making sustained efforts to boost its cyber-warfare capabilities for years, developing what had once been at-best rudimentary cyber-war assets into what General William Shelton, commander of the US Air Force Space Command, described in 2010 as a “force to be reckoned with.” Iranian expertise was subsequently leveraged...

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