Iran

Rep. Ted Deutch (D – Fla.), the ranking Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Mideast and North Africa Subcommittee, is seeking to ensure that the administration keeps its pledge to hold Iran responsible for continued terrorism. Deutch, along with Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (D – Mass.), introduced the Zero...

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Although the State Department has said that a proposed arms deal between Russia and Iran would violate a United Nations Security Council ban on weapons transfers to Iran, doubts are emerging whether the Obama administration will actually move to block the deal, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday. Iran announced...

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There is an “intense struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party” being waged between those who believe that the United States is “the leader of the free world” and those who reject that premise and see rather “hubris, not leadership in America’s history,” Josh Block, president and CEO of The Israel...

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The Obama administration said that the proposed sale of Russian fighter jets to Iran would violate the United Nations Security Council resolution that supported the nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said that the purchase of the aircraft as part of an $8 billion Russian...

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Seven months after it was first announced, the nuclear deal with Iran remains deeply unpopular in the United States, with nearly twice as many Americans opposing the agreement as supporting it, according to a poll released Wednesday by Gallup. The poll, conducted from February 3-7, found that 57% of Americans...

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The use of Shi’ite militias from across the Middle East to boost the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is the latest example of how Iran uses “Shiite proxies to bolster its reach and influence” across the region, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. Fighters from Hezbollah, Iran’s...

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