Iran was actively conducting research that would support construction of a nuclear device — a process known as weaponization — at a site the Israeli Air Force destroyed during its October 25 counterstrike...
Israel likely destroyed an Iranian site that played a key role in the Islamic Republic’s past nuclear weapons program, known as the Amad Plan. The potential elimination of the facility sends a strong...
It was surely Barack Obama’s profound aversion to the use of American military power that so enfeebled his nuclear diplomacy and made his atomic accord with Iran the worst arms-control agre...
The crisis between the United States and North Korea shows no signs of abating. Indeed, Pyongyang escalated its provocations last week, firing a missile over Japan on August 29. Critics of the pr...
A senior Iranian lawmaker is worried that President Donald Trump may leak secret documents related to Iran’s nuclear program. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of Iran’s parliame...
The Iranian foreign minister’s visit to Latin America last week signaled the Islamic Republic’s intent to rebuild its missile program in the Western Hemisphere, Emanuele Ottol...
Initially, I thought the news was beyond parody. The Associated Press last week ran a story headlined: “U.N. to let Iran inspect nuke work site.” I soon realized that this r...
Initially, I thought the news was beyond parody. The Associated Press last week ran a story headlined: “U.N. to let Iran inspect nuke work site.” I soon realized that this r...
An unusually extensive interview with the head of the Iran Atomic Energy Organization underscores the yawning gaps still remaining between the positions of the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group...
He did it again, as we should have expected. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei walked us right up to the finish line, spat on us, and walked away. Months and months of secret an...
There's a lot we don't know, but ignorance is no obstacle to strong convictions. Ignorance comes to us easily, in part because lots of things are unknowa...
Last month, the P5+1 and Iran arranged for an extension of Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), the interim nuclear deal that was agreed to in Geneva in late 2013 and implemented in January of this year....
The second line of the new nuclear deal with Iran is curious, to say the least: “Iran reaffi...
The collapse of the Iran nuclear talks in Geneva because France did not want to get hoodwinked by Iran’s regime has been a great source of embarrassment for the Obama administration. A...
Assessing contemporary figures on the world stage is tricky business. It takes time to properly reflect on what a man has done, and judgments based on brief acquaintance are often wrong. So it wa...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - World powers will seek to avert a collapse of diplomacy over Iran's nuclear programme at talks starting in Moscow on Monday, hoping to win concessions from Tehran and fore...
In recent weeks, public discussion about ongoing negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany — has experienced the same...
When, over a year ago, tensions began to publicly surface between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, the Western press concluded that Ahmadinejad...
Israel's “determination to prevent confrontation states . . . from gaining access to nuclear weapons” is the preemptive foreign policy doctrine of the Jewish state. Thos...