Concerns that began to emerge early this week regarding extremists inside the proposed cabinet of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani deepened this week. Rouhani has promised to moderate Iran’s foreign policy, but observers have raised concerns that his new foreign policy team is committed to bolstering Hezbollah, and that he himself is...

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The Iranian parliament began debate yesterday on the proposed cabinet of newly inaugurated president Hassan Rouhani. A formal vote of confidence is expected to follow. Western analysts had already described the cabinet as stacked with regime insiders drawn from Iran’s security services. Particular concerns are now being raised, however, over Rouhani’s proposed foreign policy...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday lashed out against renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, calling on the Muslim world to support the Palestinian cause and condemn Israel: “The Muslim world must not back down from its support for Palestine, and it should condemn the oppressive action of fierce Zionist wolves and...

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The United States has dispatched a series of its most senior military officers to Israel, where they have been meeting with counterparts and discussing a range of regional issues. High on all of the agendas is Iran. Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffis, is due to...

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Iran’s parliament has begun formally debating the proposed cabinet of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, with a vote of confidence expected to come later this week. For their part, Western analysts are scrutinizing Rouhani’s cabinet picks for signals as to what policies a Rouhani administration is likely to pursue. A policy...

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Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, last week became the latest in an increasingly diverse group of Lebanese political leaders to blast Hezbollah for undermining the country’s stability. Domestic critics of the Iran-backed terror group have become open in demanding that it untangle itself from the Syrian...

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Jane’s Defense Weekly this week published new satellite imagery showing that Iran has built a new rocket launch site. The purpose of the site, according to experts, is not in doubt: Analysts said the unfinished site 25 miles south east of the city of Shahrud has no storage for the liquid...

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The proposed cabinet of recently inaugurated Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is providing diplomats and analysts with new information about the likely policies – and, perhaps as importantly, tone – that a Rouhani administration is likely to set. Initial expressions of optimism, made by foreign policy analysts who hoped to see...

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The Obama administration is softening reported past resistance to a potential Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The shift is modest and – inasmuch as the administration’s actual position has been guarded by the highest levels of secrecy – difficult to measure. Nonetheless the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate Amos Yadlin...

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In 2006 proliferation experts began to call attention to Iran’s efforts to build a “plutonium bomb factory” at its Arak facility, which contains a heavy water production plant and a nuclear reactor capable of using the heavy water to produce plutonium. Last February the Telegraph published exclusive images demonstrating that...

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