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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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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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National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced yesterday during an interview at the White House that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will be traveling to Saudi Arabia and Israel in order to convince these traditional U.S. allies of the benefits of the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a report yesterday by Reuters....

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Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog plans to travel to the United States in the coming days to voice his concerns regarding the nuclear deal crafted by the P5+1 nations and Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported today. Amid news of the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers, opposition...

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Ending the arms embargo on Iran in the context of a nuclear deal “may actually help create an Iranian military that puts the lives of American sailors, soldiers, and airmen at serious risk” Andrew Bowen, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest wrote in an analysis for...

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