MidEast

Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III expressed concerns about the understanding reached between the P5+1 and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday. Baker wrote that there appeared to be “serious misunderstandings” between the negotiating parties on what a final agreement would look...

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Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology announced that their respective subsidiaries have entered into an exclusive worldwide research and license agreement that can potentially lead to the development of novel anti-cancer drugs. The agreement aims at the development of a joint project, based on new...

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Israel has successfully tested an advanced tunnel detection system near the Gaza border, and plans to expand the deployment of the systems, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The new system was already successfully trialed in recent months along parts of the border, and is now expected to be expanded further,...

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A meeting earlier this week between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the disclosure of Iran’s past nuclear research and capabilities ended with no breakthrough, Reuters reported Thursday, contradicting the claim of Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA that they had “found solutions” to the problems discussed. The...

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Unfreezing billions of dollars worth of Iranian assets, a likely consequence of the nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic, will have the effect of exacerbating Iran’s “systematic, 35-year campaign of regional meddling, destabilization, and extension of … influence” that threatens the Middle East, David Rothkopf, editor of Foreign Policy, argued Thursday. How...

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At a meeting between President Barack Obama and American-Jewish leaders this week, one of the participants said that the president “didn’t dismiss” Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel, but also that “he just didn’t really address it,” Lee Smith reported Thursday for Tablet. “It was one of the tensest meetings I can ever remember,” said...

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