AEI's Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies explains in a new post why these negotiations are destined to fail and a new report by AEI Iran expert Ali Alfoneh on Iranian Brigadier General Gholamreza Baghbani, the current chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force (IRGC QF) office in Zahedan, and a narcotics trafficker.

Talks begin tomorrow between the P5 + 1 (the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany) and Iran. Today, the P5+1 group is having a prep meeting. Talks with Iran are destined to fail, not because I want them to, but because every piece is in place for failure:

Last year, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also known as the “super committee,” failed to agree on over a trillion dollars in budget cuts. This failure has triggered the looming “sequestration” of an additional $500 billion in defense dollar cuts over the next 10 years, among other mechanical cuts to other parts of the budget

The Democrats' attack on executive privilege shows blatant disregard for the Constitution.

If international pressure on the Syrian government wanes, it is likely that Naisse will spend September 2005 in an isolation cell within Syria's infamous Sednaya prison.

The Democrats' attack on executive privilege shows blatant disregard for the Constitution.

Ifit transpires that Brodhead has once again tarred the innocent, he can prove his leadership with an apology or a resignation.

Hazlett on regulators.