Provocations from Iran accelerated this week, as the ruling Iranian ayatollah gave a speech that suggested Iran would reject a nuclear-fuel deal reached in Vienna last week, while his regime violently suppressed a new round of anti-regime demonstrations across several cities. Yet a group of former diplomats convened by a More…
Earlier today, Iran sentenced Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American academic, to 12 years in prison for the “crime” of assisting the dissidents in anti-regime protests earlier this year. The AP reports that Tajbakhsh’s sentence is the “longest prison term yet in a mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, More…
Seated across the table in Vienna from the United States and its allies, the Iranian regime is considering an ambitious diplomatic offer to ship its uranium out of the country, a move designed to tamp down years’ worth of nuclear tensions. It isn’t clear if the Iranians will take the More…
We’re still waiting to hear what’s happening in Vienna, where Iran is negotiating with the international community over whether to allow 75 percent of its uranium to be sent out of the country to be reprocessed into fuel rods, a move that would significantly reduce Iran’s ability to construct More…
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