As I mentioned yesterday, to the extent that the federal government has a role to play in lowering gas prices, one of the biggest things they can do is stop making the world believe that Iran faces an imminent attack on their nuclear facilities that will potentially inflame the entire Middle East and threaten the [...]

In the past week, we saw Jeffrey Goldberg start what appeared to be a coordinated PR campaign on behalf of Israel to prepare the ground for a potential military strike on Iran’s nuclear processing facilities. Now, according to a New York Times report, the Obama Administration is working to pre-empt that, by stressing how far [...]

Spencer Ackerman relays a Mark Hosenball piece suggesting that there will be a new assessment of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, which would reverse the claim that the Islamic Republic ended their nuclear weapons program in 2003. Hosenball’s anonymous sources say: The officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive information, say the [...]