Michael Shear of The New York Times has a useful roundup about continuing Republican efforts to paint President Obama as soft on Iran:

International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors said Tuesday evening that their mission to Iran has failed, the New York Times reports. The inspectors said Iranian officials blocked the inspectors’ access to a site that the inspectors believe can be used for tests on nuclear-weapons production and refused to agree to a process on resolving questions about other “possible military dimensions” to its nuclear program.

Don’t cheer for the triumph of democracy in Yemen just yet. 

Thousands of Afghans stormed Bagram Air Base in protest on Tuesday, angered over reports that U.S. troops had improperly disposed of copies of the Koran by burning them, the Washington Post reported.

Iran is poised to increase uranium enrichment at a new secure underground bunker, the Associated Press reported, citing unnamed diplomats.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has added her name to a growing bipartisan list of influential lawmakers protesting a newly unveiled Obama administration policy on nuclear trade and nonproliferation (see GSN, Jan. 23).

A man arrested “in the area” of the U.S. Capitol who was suspected of planning a suicide attack on the complex had been under FBI surveillance before Friday's botched attempt.

Republican committee leaders announced a competing cybersecurity bill on Thursday even as Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., sought to consolidate support for his comprehensive proposals.