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Iran

Ambassador Stephen Mull, the White House official charged with overseeing the nuclear deal with Iran, admitted to Congress Thursday that the United States doesn’t know the exact location of the enriched uranium Iran was supposed to ship to Russia. Mull was pressed on that point by Rep. Chris Smith (R – N.J.)...

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Iran

The White House’s proposed 2017 budget does not include enough money for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to support its inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Wednesday. The budget calls for nearly $191 million for the nuclear watchdog, a $5 million increase over the previous year, but less than the...

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Iran

Iran did not respond to visa requests by three U.S. lawmakers who sought to travel to the Islamic Republic in order to observe its upcoming elections and inspect its nuclear facilities. Congressmen Mike Pompeo (R – Kan.), Lee Zeldin (R – N.Y.), and Frank LoBiondo (R – N.J.) said in a statement on Wednesday...

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Israel

Graduates of the Microsoft Ventures Israel Accelerator, which operates as part of Microsoft’s R&D center, raised nearly $9 million in funds or investment offers during the mentoring program. The startups are in fields as varied as e-commerce, tourism, advertising, medicine, and agricultural technology. The Accelerator program is designed to take...

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Washington

A hacker stole and published the contact details of thousands of American intelligence agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, publicizing the link to the online data-dump with a tweet signed “#FreePalestine,” Vice reported on Monday. The names, email addresses, and job descriptions of 9,000 Homeland Security...

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Iran

After successfully working with the Obama administration on changes to the country’s visa program in order to strengthen efforts to keep terrorists out of the United States, Congressional leaders are furious that the White House appears to be unraveling that law by significantly expanding exemptions to the program, seemingly at the request of...

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that “Iran does not face any insurmountable technical barriers to producing a nuclear weapon,” directly contradicting the Obama administration’s assertion that the nuclear deal blocks all of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear bomb, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday. Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. intelligence...

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Iran

Tens of thousands of Iranians celebrated the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution on Thursday by marching in Tehran and chanting “Death to America and Israel.” Judging by the tone of the celebrations, “if you thought anti-American sentiment in Iran had waned after the nuclear deal and the lifting of sanctions, you...

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Israel

Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Sen. Robert Kennedy who acted out of anger at Kennedy’s support for Israel, has been denied parole for the 15th time. Sirhan shot Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after the senator won the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary. “This crime impacted the nation, and I daresay...

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Europe

When the Spanish soccer superclub Real Madrid—the world’s most valuable sports franchise, according to Forbes—decided to beef up their official mobile app, they turned to Sportech Interactech, the Spanish subsidiary of the Israeli company Interacting Technology. Sportech Interactech plans to use its tech expertise to acquire more users, enhance interactions among Real fans,...

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