Iran

The Obama administration’s plan to use a United Nations Security Council resolution this week to force Congress to approve the nuclear deal with Iran would “essentially [abrogate] the treaty power of Congress,” Walter Russell Mead, a historian and professor of foreign affairs at Bard College, wrote Friday in an analysis for...

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Noting that his country is a mere 50 miles from Iran, Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs, wrote that the nuclear agreement recently reached with the Islamic Republic gives it a chance to be a good neighbor or to “subsidise instability across the region...

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The nuclear agreement with Iran will “wreak havoc” across the Middle East, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States for nearly 25 years, wrote in an op-ed, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Writing for the London-based Arabic news Web site Elaph, Badar suggests that President Obama is knowingly making a bad...

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The United States expects that some of the sanctions relief money Iran will receive under the nuclear deal will go to fund terrorism in the Middle East, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. We should expect that some portion of that money...

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In Alberto Nisman’s Secret Recordings, Revealed, which was published in the July 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine, Eamonn MacDonagh writes that the wiretaps made by Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who died under mysterious circumstances earlier this year, may provide evidence of collusion between the governments of Argentina and Iran in an effort...

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The nuclear deal with Iran will “unleash a lion from the cage,” creating “clear risks to Israel’s security,” Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog told Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic in an interview published today. The deal just finalized in Vienna, [Herzog] said, “will unleash a lion from the cage, it will have...

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