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Iran

The White House’s failure to provide Congress with all of the side deals connected to the nuclear agreement with Iran means that the 60-day countdown clock for a vote hasn’t started, Northwestern University law professor Eugene Kontorovich wrote today in an analysis in The Washington Post The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015,...

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Diplomacy

If her speech Wednesday at the Brookings Institution is any indication, Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy agenda will mark a break with her former boss, President Barack Obama, according to a Washington Post analysis. Notably, the Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state advocated for confronting Iran more forcefully despite her announced support...

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Diplomacy

Israel is prepared to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians right away, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his British counterpart David Cameron in London on Wednesday. “I want to say here in 10 Downing Street, and reaffirm again, that I am ready to resume direct negotiations with the Palestinians with...

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Israel

Four Israeli companies have announced multi-million-pound investments in Wales that will create up to 100 new jobs. The announcements came in the wake of a visit by a delegation of Israeli businesses to Wales to celebrate existing Israeli-Welsh trade and investments. Orbotech, a global leader in semiconductor equipment, confirmed that...

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Iran

Rep. Ted Lieu (D – Calif.), an Air Force veteran and a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today in a detailed 23-page press release (.pdf). Lieu stated that his opposition to the deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan...

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Iran

Hillary Clinton promised that she would “act decisively” as president to ensure Iran did not violate the recent nuclear deal. The leading presidential candidate and former secretary of state told an audience at the Brookings Institution today that Iran will “want to see how far they can bend the rules,” but that she would “hold...

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Iran

Public support for the nuclear deal with Iran has dropped sharply from 33% to just 21% in two months’ time, according to a poll published yesterday by the Pew Research Center. In mid-July, a week after President Obama announced the deal, 33% of the public approved of the agreement, while...

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Europe

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former First Minister of Northern Ireland and the former Prime Minister of Spain called on Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Hill. David Trimble and Jose Maria Aznar argued that the deal, formally known as the Joint...

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Nearly three-quarters of Americans who support the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal with Iran is known, oppose an attempt in the Senate to filibuster the vote on the agreement, according to a new poll by Olive Tree Strategies that was released today. Overall, 56% of all respondents oppose...

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Iran

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared on his English-language Twitter account today that Israel – or the “Zionist regime” – will be gone in 25 years. In his message, Khamenei said, “God willing there will be nothing of Zionist regime by 25 years.” He added, “Until then, struggling, heroic...

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