Iran

The nuclear deal with Iran will further enrich the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by freeing the organization through which he built his personal fortune from international sanctions, Jonathan Schanzer, a former Treasury Department official who is now the vice-president of research for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies (FDD), and...

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More than 60% of Americans distrust Iran, and a plurality believes that the Islamic Republic got the better part of the nuclear deal with the West, a poll (.pdf) released today by Monmouth University showed. Four-in-ten (41%) say Iran got more of what it wanted from this deal, while just 14% feel the U.S. came...

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A letter written by 29 prominent American scientists in support of the recent nuclear deal with Iran fails to address political aspects of the deal or ambiguities in the wording of the deal, Emily Landau, a leading nuclear nonproliferation expert, wrote in an analysis today in The Times of Israel....

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Among the individuals who will be freed from international sanctions under the terms of the nuclear deal between Iran and the West is Anis Naccache, a former lieutenant of of legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal and attempted assassin of Shahpour Bakhtiar, Iran’s last Shah-era prime minister. Bakhtiar’s nephew, Hooman Bakhtiar, criticized this...

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The nuclear deal with Iran will empower a regime that has killed an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 gays and lesbians since 1979 and enable the increased persecution of sexual minorities in the Islamic Republic, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published...

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The State Department issued an advisory warning Americans not to visit Iran due to the threat of detention and imprisonment on false charges, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “This deal over Iran’s nuclear program does not alter the United States’s assessment of the risks of travel to Iran for...

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