Diplomacy

Saudi Arabia has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with South Korea, fueling fears of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the signing of the agreement increases “concerns on Capitol Hill and among U.S. allies that a deal with Iran, rather than...

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Talks are underway between the seven countries negotiating over Iran’s nuclear program—including the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council—to lift the security council’s sanctions on Iran, Reuters reported today. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council...

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The Obama administration has undermined its own negotiating by claiming that the deal it is negotiating with Iran is “non-binding,” according an analysis published yesterday in The Daily Beast. The Obama administration was so outraged with the Republican attempt to undercut the president’s foreign policy negotiations that it sent the vice...

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Noting that scientific collaborations between Britain and Israel are “booming,” Sir Mark Walport, chief scientific adviser to the British Government, writes that “British businesses and universities are keen to collaborate,” in the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, yesterday. From the prime minister down, the government of the U.K. is committed to a stronger...

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In his observations about Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Saudi Arabia last week, columnist Tariq Al-Homayed of the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat charged that an agreement between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program that fails to end Iran’s occupation of other countries or stop its sponsorship...

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Over the past two days, both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki have admitted that the current nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran is “non-binding.” Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, Kerry said that the deal is not “legally binding.” “We’ve been...

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