Iran and the P5+1 have yet to agree on a date for the resumption of talks surrounding Iran’s atomic program, and Iranian outlets are now conveying statements by a top official in Tehran declaring that negotiations may be suspended altogether. Deputy Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mansour Haqiqat...

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Two car bombs in southern Syria were responsible for the deaths of at least 12 people Friday. The attack comes at the end of a week which saw a spike in violence in the war-torn country, and just days after attacks on Aleppo University in the country’s north left 87...

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Negotiations between UN nuclear inspectors and Iran — aimed at securing inspector access to Iran’s Parchin military facility, where it is widely suspected that Iranian scientists conducted work related to nuclear detonations — have ended without progress. The result is consistent with multiple statements by Iranian officials over the last...

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Iran’s 24th fleet will begin a new three-month tour of duty next week that will take the warship and submarine into the Mediterranean Sea to “block threats to the Islamic republic.” Similar deployments have been used as symbolic moves channeled into domestic propaganda channels, but have also been used to deliver...

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Experts from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog are in Iran and will again seek access to a military complex in the country where it is widely suspected that Iranian nuclear scientists conducted tests related to nuclear detonations. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast expressed opposition to providing the IAEA inspectors access to the Parchin facility,...

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The director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency has expressed pessimism that Iran will adopt measures to increase transparency around its military facility at Parchin. The agency wants access to the site in order to investigate reports that Iran conducted activity there linked to the development of nuclear explosives. International...

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Australian officials announced yesterday that the country will expand its sanctions against Iran, which are targeted at encouraging Tehran to increase transparency around its atomic program. Canberra imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Iran in 2008, and Foreign Minister Bob Carr linked the new restrictions to ongoing Iranian noncompliance wth U.N. Security...

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A future Palestinian state is in “extreme jeopardy” according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The Palestinian Authority is struggling to cope with a spiraling economic and financial crisis that Fayyad linked to the failure of Arab states to deliver promised assistance. The assistance has become crucial in the aftermath of...

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The Iran-backed terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian faction Fatah, which politically controls Palestinian areas of the West Bank, have both rejected U.N. requests to accept some 150,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the violence in Syria. Their refusals come as U.N. officials have raised the estimated death toll...

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It is now estimated that 60,000 people have lost their lives in Syria’s 22-month, three-way proxy war between Bashar al-Assad’s regime, West-backed rebel forces, and Kurdish troops. This figure is the result of a cross-checking of the names of the dead by the United Nations and suggests that previous numbers...

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