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Argentina’s new justice minister, Germán Garavano, announced that he will not renew a controversial agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 AMIA community center bombing, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The deal was originally signed by the government of former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Although a court last...

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In the wake of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency’s report confirming that Iran was covertly working to develop a nuclear bomb as late as 2009, the U.S. and its partners in the nuclear deal must keep sanctions in place until the regime “[fills] in the remaining blanks on its weapons...

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Less than a week after the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that Iran covertly operated an illicit nuclear weapons program as late as 2009, a senior Iranian official warned that reopening the investigation into the regime’s past nuclear activities would be equivalent to “welshing” on the nuclear deal, Iran’s Mehr...

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As the clock struck midnight in Buenos Aires last night, street celebrations broke out in various parts of the city. Residents banged pots and pans, waved the Argentine flag, set off fireworks, and sang the national anthem. Similar scenes were recorded in many other cities throughout the country. The reason...

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Representatives Joe Kennedy (D – Mass.) and Ted Deutch (D – Fla.) urged President Barack Obama to enforce sanctions against Iran for its recent test launches of ballistic missiles, Politico reported on Wednesday. “Iran violated UNSC Resolution 1929, which remains in effect until the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] is implemented,...

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The recent sentencing of an Iranian woman to lashings, 25-years of imprisonment, and death by stoning underscores the Islamic Republic’s “continued war against women,” according to a human rights activists quoted by Benjamin Weinthal in a report published Thursday in The Jerusalem Post. The punishment, handed down to a 25-year-old who was convicted of...

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