Iranian officials on Tuesday denied reports that the Islamic Republic had been caught breaching sanctions to acquire materials for use at its Arak facility, a day after Foreign Policy released details of a confidential United Nations report that found Tehran to be illicitly obtaining the equipment. Foreign Policy cited sources...

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A report published by Foreign Policy on Monday indicating that Tehran was caught breaching sanctions in order to advance its plutonium work is likely to deepen concerns in Washington at a time when the administration’s handling of the negotiations has been called into question by lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The...

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The premise of the Obama administration’s approach to negotiations with Iran is flawed, according to an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post. The op-ed was written by Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense during the George W. Bush administration; Dennis Ross, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama; and Ray...

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President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to the Pentagon’s top post, replacing Chuck Hagel, who stepped down from the position last month. Carter, who served as assistant secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, is perceived to be particularly strong on nuclear non-proliferation...

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On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved a measure that would require the White House to report to Congress on Iranian compliance with regards to its nuclear program. The measure, included in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and co-authored by Reps. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.),...

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The West must reestablish a credible threat of force in order to restore eroded leverage with Iran according Amos Yadlin, former head of Israel’s military intelligence and director at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), and INSS researcher Avner Golov. In an article published Wednesday, Yadlin and Golov argued...

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In testimony (.pdf) yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Michael Doran, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, recommended new sanctions against Iran to ensure that the United States has sufficient leverage ahead of the June deadline to conclude negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Such leverage has been diminished, Doran argued,...

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Tuesday called for additional sanctions on Iran in the event that efforts for Iran and the P5+1 to reach a framework agreement by March 2015 are unsuccessful. Menendez’s comments, delivered at the Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO council meeting, come just after...

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President Barack Obama has selected former Pentagon official Ashton Carter to serve as his next Secretary of Defense, according to reports. Carter, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense—the Pentagon’s second-highest position—from 2011-2013 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, is perceived to be particularly strong on nuclear non-proliferation issues, which may have implications...

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While Iran already possesses the necessary materials for a nuclear bomb, any additional concessions would make the regime “a virtual nuclear power,”  which is why allowing negotiations to expire with “no significant change” in Iran’s demands is better than concluding a bad deal, José María Aznar, the former premier of Spain...

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