Progress With Iran as Negotiations Continue in Vienna The United States and its international partners in the P5+1 (China, Russia, France, United Kingdom and Germany) sat down with Iran this week to begin to lay out the details of a final deal. So far, implementation of the November 24 Joint Plan of Action, which provides […]

Obama Shares Rouhani’s Challenge Selling Any Deal Reached By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan February 18, 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have one thing in common: Both have voiced doubts that the talks starting today in Vienna will produce a deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear program. That’s only in part […]

What’s the Alternative to a Comprehensive Iran Nuclear Deal? By Jasmine Ramsey February 14, 2014 As I mentioned here, the debate over US military action to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon was mostly on the back burner last year, but as Iran and six world powers known as the P5+1 head to Vienna to negotiate […]

Iranian Navy Ends Week of Threats With Announcement of New Weapons By Paul D. Shinkman February 14, 2014 The Iranian navy capped off a week at saber-rattling against the West with an announcement that two ships deployed for international waters off the coast of the U.S. are just the beginning. Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, the […]

As Peace Talks Inch Along, Deadly Firebombs Plague Syrians By Scott Johnson February 10, 2014 While the Assad regime’s negotiators are sitting down with representatives from the various rebel factions in the peace talks known as Geneva II this week, the regime is waging an increasingly brutal air assault campaign against civilians, using an advanced […]