Diplomacy

The checkered history of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspections, which are meant to determine if a nation’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, demonstrates the need for agency to have complete access to all areas in Iran—including military sites—that are suspected of having nuclear activity, Yishai Schwartz, an associate editor of...

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A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel has grown 20 percent since the November 2013 Joint Plan of Action agreement between the Islamic Republic and the West, The New York Times reported today. The report raises questions over how Iran could come into compliance...

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Narendra Modi, who was elected prime minister of India last year, will be the first Indian leader to visit Israel, The Times of India reported today. Narendra Modi will be the first Indian prime minister to travel to Israel, a visit that will finally bring one of the world’s close...

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Israel-based humanitarian relief agency IsraAID has sent a team of volunteers to flood-ravaged Texas to help with relief efforts. This is not the first time the Israeli organization has sent disaster relief aid to the U.S. The latest team of seven volunteers will help with removing debris from damaged houses...

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A nuclear deal with Iran is “useless” if it does not allow inspectors to check military sites, French Foerign Minister Laurent Fabius told (Google link) The Wall Street Journal today. Fabius said if Tehran wanted to build a nuclear weapon in violation of an international agreement, it would inevitably do so at a...

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A member of Iran’s negotiating team said that inspections of military sites, deemed essential to ensuring that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon, “has never been on the agenda in our negotiations,” The Jerusalem Post reported today. Iran has repeatedly ruled out “alien” inspections into any of its military...

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