White House Ups Ante on Sanctions Bill As More Republicans Sign On

by Jim Lobe As an update to the post I wrote Thursday, it appears the White House is toughening its rhetoric against the Kirk-Menendez Wag the Dog Act, as more Republicans have signed on as co-sponsors. There are now a… Continue Reading →

Neocons Who Brought You The Iraq War Endorse AIPAC’s Iran Bill

by Jim Lobe *Read an update to this post here. The neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the successor organization of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), has just published another open letter (reproduced below) to Congressional leaders that implicitly endorses what I… Continue Reading →

The Iran Nuclear Negotiations At The Turn Of Another Year

by Peter Jenkins It is tempting to assume that, for Iran nuclear negotiators, 2013 was a year of two halves: stalemate during the last months of the Ahmadinejad administration, and then, after the presidential election of Dr. Hassan Rouhani, a… Continue Reading →

Will Hillary Take A Position On Iran Sanctions?

by Jim Lobe What will former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say, if anything, about the Kirk–Menendez Iran sanctions bill? The pressure on her to take a position must be considerable, if only because, as both the former secretary and… Continue Reading →