“It’s a necessity more important than bread.” That’s how Iran’s rulers regard their drive to acquire nuclear weapons, an activist hard-liner recently declared. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s...
Has the United States lost the Iran war? The Iranian regime certainly thinks it has. The big Iranian funk that came after the 12-Day War in June, which climaxed the Israeli multi-front offensive...
In the first such action in 20 years, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) Board of Governors voted to refer Iran’s noncompliance with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations to the...
Democratic officials ignore how they contributed to the situation in the Middle East.
Chemicals and intelligence keep Tehran’s war machine alive.
“Gradually, then suddenly” could work
Following the announcement of a U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement, President Donald Trump is now raising doubts over it. In a Truth Social post on July 23, one day after news of the agreement,...
This is probably Trump’s last chance to show why the regime should fear him.
“We’re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready,” President Donald Trump declared Monday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. The regime in Tehran never learns,...
Just three weeks after it was signed, the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran is on life support. Tehran’s promise to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for international...
New analysis of satellite imagery indicates that Iran is continuing construction at the deeply buried nuclear facility known as Pickaxe Mountain, in violation of the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding...
Abstract This article argues that the Trump Administration’s Memorandum of Understanding with Iran is subject to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) but the administration has not complied...
If you want to understand Iran’s negotiating posture for the new nuclear deal with the United States, listen to what Washington and Tehran said about the nuclear deal of July 2015. At the time, President...
Iran’s rulers think Trump is as beatable as his predecessors
The Treasury Department’s issuance on June 22 of a license pausing Iranian petroleum sanctions appears to be inconsistent with the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA), which prohibits such relief...
This article analyzes five key legal questions relating to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on June 17, 2026 by U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The new US-Iran memorandum offers Tehran sweeping concessions, but raises questions about whether Washington is relinquishing its leverage before securing meaningful restrictions
Will the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, journey to Iran following the inking of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Tehran and Washington? According to Vice...
The U.S. has reportedly granted Iran sanction waivers for selling oil, with one Iranian supertanker transporting crude oil having already crossed the U.S. naval blockade. This development came one day...
The critical question of how to handle Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile will be addressed in a long-term peace agreement between the United States and Iran, to be negotiated over the 60 days following...