Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio would "absolutely" defy U.S. allies to revoke any Iranian nuclear deal he might inherit from Barack Obama, the Florida senator said on Tuesday. The next president "should not be bound" by a potential agreement the Obama administration strikes with Iran, he added.
President Obama announced that he is "embarrassed" for the 47 Republican senators who signed an open letter to Iran undermining his credibility in securing a nuclear deal.
Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday that the letter 47 Republican senators sent to Iran's leaders was "beneath the dignity of an institution I revere." Led by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, the lawmakers had cautioned Tehran that any deal it strikes with the United States on its nuclear program needed congressional approval.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday concluded three days of negotiations on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, and an unidentified senior State Department official said that both sides had inched closer to a deal.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday morning despite concerns from the White House and the absence of dozens of Democrats.
Iranian forces attacked a replica of a U.S. aircraft carrier during nationally televised large-scale naval drills on Wednesday. More than a dozen speedboats were involved in what the Associated Press dubbed a "show of force" near the strategically important entrance of the Persian Gulf.
Arab ambassadors in the United States have rejected Benjamin Netanyahu's invitation to attend his March 3 speech before the U.S. Congress. The Israeli prime minister had charged Ron Dermer, the Jewish state's top diplomat in Washington, with reaching out to his Arab counterparts.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Monday strongly criticized the deal that appears to be emerging from the talks on Iran's nuclear program, warning it would represent "a great danger to the peace of the Western world" and "a danger to the security of the state of Israel."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joined the Geneva negotiations over Iran's nuclear program on Monday as a two-phase deal between Washington and Tehran seemed to be taking shape.
Washington and Tehran are trying to narrow their differences over Iran's nuclear program in talks set to begin Friday in Geneva. Negotiators failed to meet a self-imposed deadline in November to end the 12-year standoff over Tehran's nuclear capabilities. Top U.S. and Iranian diplomats will now again try to strike a deal.
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst reversed a decision it made earlier this month to ban Iranian students from taking certain engineering and science courses. The university backed down after student groups and organizations protested the school's decision.
Gerardo Pollicita, an Argentine prosecutor has requested that a federal judge investigate President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner over allegations that she helped to cover up Iranian links to 1994 bombing at a Jewish center that led to the deaths of 85 people.
Argentine forensic experts have discovered DNA from an unidentified person in the apartment of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman who died January 18 under what has been regarded as highly mysterious circumstances.
Violence flared up at the Israeli-Lebanese border on Wednesday after a Hezbollah missile attack killed two soldiers, the. The Lebanese militants apparently launched the devices in retaliation for a deadly airstrike attributed to Israel, which had claimed the lives of six of their fighters in the occupied Golan Heights earlier this month.
A week after the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a man who was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Jewish groups in Argentina have decided to boycott the government's Holocaust commemorations.
Footage shows Iran has become more involved in the fight against ISIS. A recently released video shows an Iranian fighter plane attacking ISIS positions within Iraq. However, the Iranian government denies their involvement despite visual evidence and U.S. tacit acknowledgement.
Conference in Paris aims to divide responsibility in coalition against Islamic State A historically important city in world wars, Paris will host yet another international conference Monday to divide responsibility in confronting the Islamic State.
