The last-minute addition of a provision to the nuclear deal that will lift the arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council on Iran has prompted a number of Democratic lawmakers to vocally express their concern, the National Journal reported yesterday. Democrats are grappling with a reported phased lifting...

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...

The nuclear accords announced between the P5+1 powers and Iran include a provision that will lift the UN’s conventional arms embargo imposed on Iran after five years and restrictions on ballistic missile trade after eight years, The New York Times reported today. The restrictions may be removed within an even shorter time-frame...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hailed the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, which will provide Iran with billions of dollars of sanctions relief, as a “great victory,” Agence France-Presse reported today. Iran extended the beleaguered Syrian president a $1 billion line of credit last week. Assad said the...

As world powers spent the past few days finalizing an agreement to lift a UN arms embargo on Iran as part of a nuclear deal, Iranian proxies sparked violent confrontations throughout the Middle East. Forces loyal to Iran-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed 13, including seven women and a child, in bombing raids on a...

Josh Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, issued the following statement in response to today’s announced nuclear agreement with Iran. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. Today’s announcement of this nuclear agreement with Iran is a realization of the deepest fears and the most dire predictions of skeptics...