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The agreement to inspect Iran’s nuclear research site at Parchin is faulty and hurts the credibility of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, its former deputy director general said today. Olli Heinonen, the former number two official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), expressed doubts that the inspections plan is strong enough in an...

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Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran in an op-ed published today in The Washington Post. Cardin is also a co-sponsor of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which mandated legislative oversight of any deal....

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Diplomacy

Palestinian officials have rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to restart peace negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat called Netanyahu “king of the settlers” and dismissed his remarks as a PR stunt, Israel Radio reported. Erekat charged that the prime minister actively worked...

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Iran

The recently reported arrest of Ahmed al-Mughassil, the head of Saudi Hezbollah, for the 1996 bombing of the United States military barracks at the Khobar Towers complex in Saudi Arabia has once again emphasized the heavy involvement of both Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah in orchestrating the terror attack. In...

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Human Rights

The head of the Anti-Defamation League blasted the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America for its vote last week to endorse the anti-Israel boycott movement. ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt wrote a letter to union president Bruce Klipple today, urging him to reconsider. We are deeply troubled by the United Electrical Radio and Machine...

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The president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the controversial group promoting closer ties with Iran, admitted in an email to supporters Wednesday that he wants to prevent a Congressional vote on the nuclear deal with Iran from occurring. An alert written by NIAC founder and president Trita Parsi celebrated securing the 34th Democratic Senate...

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Russian troops, weapons, and vehicles have been sighted in battles in Syria supporting the Assad regime, The Telegraph reported Wednesday. The video footage claimed to show troops and a Russian armoured vehicle fighting Syrian rebels alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s troops in Latakia. … In further indications of Russian “mission creep” in Syria,...

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Israel

The Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin sent a letter to General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt Tuesday calling on him to cancel his company’s labor contracts with the the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America after the union endorsed the anti-Israel boycott movement last week, noting that the union’s actions may violate “numerous U.S....

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Hundreds of Floridians protested the nuclear deal with Iran outside a community center where Vice President Joe Biden arrived to deliver a speech in favor of the agreement, CBS Miami reported today. Carrying signs and waving banners, protestors set up camp near the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie...

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Kuwait charged 24 men with spying for Iran and Hezbollah in order “to carry out aggressive acts” against the state, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Tuesday. The men were charged with “spying for the Islamic republic of Iran and Hezbollah to carry out aggressive acts against the State of Kuwait” by...

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