Diplomacy

Representative Brad Sherman (D – Calif.), the second highest ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that he will vote against the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), The Hill reported Friday. “A strong Congressional vote against the Agreement is the...

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Top Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) announced yesterday evening their opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Schumer is one of the senior Democrats in the Senate and is slated to become...

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American intelligence has detected Iran attempting to sanitize Parchin, the military site where the Islamic Republic is suspected of carrying out tests on detonators that could be used to trigger nuclear explosions, Josh Rogin and Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported on Wednesday. The U.S. intelligence community has informed Congress...

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Senators from both parties left a closed-door meeting today with the UN’s nuclear agency today upset by the agency’s lack of clarity, raising more questions than they had going in, The Hill reported today. Multiple Senate lawmakers emerged fuming from a nearly two-hour closed-door briefing with the globe’s top nuclear watchdog...

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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a “bad agreement” that will leave Israel and the rest of the world dealing with its “dangerous” consequences, Israel’s former national security advisor, Gen. Yaacov Amidror, wrote in an analysis published Wednesday by the Begin and Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. The agreement...

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Rep. Ed Royce (R – Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution to disapprove of the nuclear deal reached between the P5+1 nations and Iran, Reuters reported Tuesday. Republican U.S. Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, on Tuesday introduced...

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