Middle East

China and Iran announced this week that they’re deepening their military ties, with Tehran going so far as to claim that China now sees Iran ……Read More

To get a final deal with Iran, Washington is going to have to be ready to trade in nuclear-related sanctions in exchange for Iranian nuclear concessions. But ……Read More

I met Hassan Rouhani at a stressful time — in 2003, just as the International Atomic Energy Agency was uncovering concealed nuclear activities in Iran. ……Read More

It has been almost eight months since Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took the helm of the Islamic Republic’s executive branch. By all accounts, after several ……Read More

Deliberations about imposing costs on Russia for undesirable behavior in Ukraine quickly run into several snags, among which is that any sanctions that would significantly ……Read More

Iran’s decision to resist replacing Hamid Aboutalebi, as the Islamic Republic’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, is only increasing frustrations both in Tehran ……Read More