Iran

Pro-Iran, anti-sanctions groups call for Iranian impunity for terrorist attacks on the United States, oppose final deal that prevents Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, funded by the famously soft-on-Iran Ploughshares Fund (which also underwrites the notorious pro-Iran lobby NIAC, and has spent millions of dollars to...

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Empirical evidence is emerging on what had long been a central theoretical disagreement in the debate over the Joint Plan of Action (JPA), with multiple data points suggesting that the Obama administration has been over-optimistic in assuming that sanctions against Iran would largely hold in the aftermath of the JPA’s...

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Senate legislation that would impose new sanctions on Iran if Tehran refused to dismantle its atomic program at the end of negotiations inched today toward a “near-filibuster-proof majority,” with Foreign Policy outlining that 58 Senators now support the proposed bill. Democrats supporting it include liberals such as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New...

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The Guardian yesterday conveyed statements from multiple Hamas figures indicating that the Palestinian terror group has rebuilt warm relations with its long-time sponsor Iran, overcoming a temporary break in relations that had some analysts declaring that there was an opening for Western engagement. “Relations between us are now almost back to how...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out against the United States on Thursday. “We had announced previously that on certain issues, if we feel it is expedient, we would negotiate with the Satan (the United States) to deter its evil,” Khamenei told a gathering, reported by the official IRNA...

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The Washington Free Beacon yesterday published figures, provided to the outlet by the non-partisan advocacy organization United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), showing that Iranian oil exports not only spiked in December but approached an annual high, amid expectations from investors and trading partners that sanctions against the Islamic republic will soon be...

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