Diplomacy

It cannot be confirmed “that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,” Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations, said in an address in Indonesia on Friday. As far as Iran is concerned, the Agency is...

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President Barack Obama’s retreat on insisting that President Bashar al-Assad leave power was endorsed in an editorial in The New York Times yesterday. But the unsettling truth is that the brutal dictator is still clinging to power and the United States and its allies are going to have to live with...

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While Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has authorized nuclear negotiations with the West, hardliners associated with the Ayatollah have stepped up their rhetorical campaign against President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for their participation in the negotiations. Rouhani and Zarif have both insisted that they will...

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In a speech Sunday night, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, praised the U.S.-Israel relationship and explained the importance of the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner to Israel’s Prime Minister of Israel to speak before a joint session of Congress on March 3. Placing a heavy emphasis on...

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The late Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani of involvement in planning the July 1994 terror attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, journalist Andres Oppenheimer of The Miami Herald reported Wednesday On July 1, 2013, Nisman emailed me part of Mesbahi’s testimony. Quoting from his...

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In a stinging public rebuke, a trio of leading foreign policy officials for the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations — including two who served as key Obama White House officials overseeing U.S. policy on Iran — have leveled an unusually blunt assessment of recent U.S. foreign policy setbacks related to the Islamic Republic, charging that...

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