Iran

By changing course and “halting the Iranians’ path toward nuclear capability,” the Obama administration could reverse what is potentially “one of the greatest missteps” in history and strengthen the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published today...

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that recent comments made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “do not seem to go in [the] direction” of supporting a “robust” nuclear deal, Reuters reported Wednesday. “France wants a deal but wants the deal to be robust, a good deal, but not a bad...

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A classified document from the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran reveals that Western powers are willing to help Iran construct a low-water nuclear reactor instead of its nearly-completed plutonium-producing plant, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. This proposal is strikingly similar to the plan outlined in the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, the last...

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An open letter to the White House signed by a bipartisan group of experts, including five former Obama administration officials, called on the United States to strengthen the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The letter enumerated five elements that need to be strengthened to prevent Iran...

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A classified annex to the emerging nuclear deal reveals that the P5+1 powers have promised to provide Iran with advanced nuclear technology, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. To that end, the draft, entitled “Civil Nuclear Cooperation,” promises to supply Iran with light-water nuclear reactors instead of its nearly completed...

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The WikiLeaks organization released a top secret memo from the Saudi embassy in Khartoum alleging that Iran had shipped nuclear equipment, including advanced centrifuges, to Sudan in 2012, The Times of Israel reported today. The memo, dated February 2012 and marked as “very secret,” was leaked last week by the WikiLeaks...

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