World Affairs

Araghchi Has Landed Back in Islamabad — The Diplomatic Circuit Is Still Moving

Hours after meeting Oman's Sultan in Muscat and a day after leaving Islamabad empty-handed, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has returned to the Pakistani...

Iran’s 10-Year Enrichment Offer Was Rejected — Here Is the Nuclear Gap That Remains

Every negotiation that fails, fails on one thing. In the Iran war, that one thing is now precisely identified: uranium enrichment. Here is what...

Trump Cancels Pakistan Trip — Then Iran Sends a “Much Better” Paper Within 10 Minutes

The Iran war's most chaotic single hour of diplomacy just concluded. In the space of 60 minutes on Saturday,...

Ghalibaf Resigns as Iran’s Lead Negotiator — Forced Out for Pushing Nuclear Compromise

The Iran war's diplomatic track just experienced its most consequential internal rupture yet. The man who sat across from...

Two Israeli Air Force Technicians Charged With Spying for Iran: F-15 Secrets Leaked

The Shin Bet security agency, Israeli military prosecutors and Israeli police announced jointly Thursday that two mechanics from the...

Trump orders Navy to “shoot and kill” mine-laying boats — Iran is laying NEW mines in Hormuz

The Iran war escalated sharply on Thursday morning when two things happened in close succession: Iran's IRGC navy laid...

Iran Fires on 3 Ships and Seizes 2 in Hormuz — One Day After Ceasefire Was Extended

The ceasefire that Trump extended indefinitely on Tuesday lasted less than 24 hours before Iran's IRGC launched its most...

Iran Signals “Openness to Talks” After Ceasefire Extended — But IRGC Calls Extension a “Ploy”

The indefinite ceasefire extension Trump announced Tuesday night produced exactly the contradictory Iranian response that Washington has been navigating...