Obama Wants to Partner with Iran’s New Radical President

Iran’s new president will find a partner in the United States if he comes clean on the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear program, a senior White House official said Sunday, according ...

Iran’s Ayatollah Khameini Decides on Nukes, No One Else

Israel issued an unusually blunt reaction to the election of Iran’s new president on Saturday by saying it was supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who decides on nuclear policy, not ...

Iranian Official Admits Bushehr Plant ‘Malfunctioned’

Iran’s Russian-built nuclear power plant has had an electric generator malfunction, an Iranian official admitted on Monday, according to the Israel Hayom daily. The flaw at the Bushehr plant was ...

House Pushes Back on Obama’s Nuclear Disarmament Agenda

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) advances U.S. national interests when it comes to U.S. nuclear weapons. The bill prohibits elimination of the nuclear triad ...

Maintain Resolve on Conditions for Engaging North Korea

Korean Central News Agency via Korean News Service North Korea is in the news again and, surprisingly, it’s not because of yet another nuclear threat against the U.S. or its ...

Obama Eases Sanctions on Iran: Allows Sales of Communications Equipment to Iranians

The United States on Thursday eased some of the sanctions it has imposed on Iran, lifting a ban on sales of communications equipment to Iranians and opening access to Internet ...

U.S. to Boycott Iran-Led Disarmament Conference

The United States will boycott meetings of the UN Conference on Disarmament when Iran takes over the body this month, a U.S. spokeswoman said Monday. Iran, and any nation facing ...

Report: Pentagon Can Destroy Iran’s Underground Nuclear Facility

The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran’s most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site, the Wall Street ...

Iran is Obtaining Materials in Violation of UN Sanctions

The United States said on Friday that both Iran and North Korea are trying to obtain high-tech materials linked to their nuclear programs, in violation of UN sanctions. According to ...

Viscount Samuel, Meet Secretary Hagel

Emerging from intense controversy, the British politician Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) was appointed the first High Commissioner of Palestine, where he served 1920-25. A Jew and an influential Zionist, Samuel bent ...