Diplomacy

The framework agreement currently taking shape in Lausanne, Switzerland is “extremely dangerous,” Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence and former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs, said Sunday in a conference call hosted by The Israel Project. The Israel...

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The Associated Press on Sunday reported that efforts in Lausanne, Switzerland to seal a nuclear framework agreement with Iran are being hampered by continuing Iranian demands regarding research and development of enrichment technology. The P5 +1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia – are calling...

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Placing trust in Iran to abide by the nuclear deal being negotiated would be “short-sighted and wrong,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The New Jersey Star Ledger. The Israel Project published The Tower. Citing Ayatollah Ali...

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The Iranians continue to show signs of inflexibility in the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in comments to reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York, said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was “not very precise” about Tehran’s willingness to compromise...

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Sen. Harry Reid (D – Nev.) announced his retirement today and backed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) to succeed him as Senate Minority Leader. The news comes one day after Schumer signed as co-sponsor of a bill to require legislative review of any Iran nuclear deal agreed to by...

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A range of media outlets blasted the Obama administration on Thursday and Friday over the White House’s Middle East policy in the broadest sense, arguing that the increasingly chaotic region is in a downward spiral due, in part, to missteps by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team. The various conflicts engulfing...

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