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Diplomacy

The nuclear deal agreed to last week has become a “horror story,” that will “[ensure] the establishment of a new Iranian nuclear program, which will be immeasurably more powerful and dangerous than its predecessor,” according to Ari Shavit, a senior Israeli reporter who is frequently critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

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Diplomacy

The White House and State Department have used misleading claims to respond to criticisms that a clause in the nuclear deal giving Iran 24 days to explain a suspicious nuclear site will allow the Islamic Republic to sanitize or hide illicit material. On a page of the White House website set up to explain the deal...

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Diplomacy

Nuclear proliferation experts have raised serious questions about a provision in the recently-agreed nuclear deal that allows Iran up to 24 days to address suspicions of unlawful nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), The New York Times reported today. Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director-general of the IAEA,...

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MidEast

The Washington Post has turned to the United Nations for help in freeing its reporter Jason Rezaian, who was arrested by authorities a year ago today. CNN reported: The Washington Post is petitioning the United Nations to help secure the release of Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian, one year after he...

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Iran

Iran-backed militias are successfully recruiting Syrians to fight on behalf of beleaguered President  Bashar al-Assad by doubling their pay, the Financial Times reported today. The report described a scene where a recruiter informed potential soldiers that although half of them would die, the survivors could earn $200 a month. “It sounded like a...

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Iran

The recent nuclear deal with Iran will strengthen the hold that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hold over the country, Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote in the current issue of The Weekly Standard. Insofar as the sanctions regime strengthened the IRGC’s hold on the Iranian economy,...

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Diplomacy

Senators Bob Corker (R – Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D – Md.), the two highest ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, insisted to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in a meeting today that the Obama administration must turn over missing documents related to the nuclear deal agreed to with Iran, known...

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Israel

The official educational curriculum of the Palestinian Authority (PA) promotes terrorism and hatred of Jews and Israel, a report presented today at an international teachers’ conference stated. The report, prepared by the organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), documents that “the PA teaches its children to reject Israel’s right to exist,...

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Diplomacy

A former top official of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency has said that the recently-signed nuclear deal’s provision allowing Iran more than three weeks notice before accepting international inspectors will help the country cheat in its nuclear obligations. Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and...

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Diplomacy

A plurality of Americans who are familiar with the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), disapprove of the agreement, while 73% of Americans have little or no confidence that Iran’s leaders will abide by its terms, according to a poll released today by Pew Research...

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