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Iran

In a speech just four days after Iran completed a nuclear deal with the West, the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave a speech before a huge crowd and praised it for calling for the death of Israel and the United States, The Times of Israel reported on Saturday. Iran’s...

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Diplomacy

The recently-signed nuclear deal with Iran was approved unanimously by by the United Nations Security Council today, despite protests from both Republican and Democratic members of Congress on legislative and Constitutional grounds. Reuters reported today: Passage of the resolution triggers a complex set of coordinated steps agreed by Iran during nearly two years of talks with the...

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Diplomacy

There’s been a lot of talk lately proclaiming Barack Obama the second coming of Neville Chamberlain. The analogy may be facile, but it is not far-fetched. The accord just reached in Vienna, at best, only temporarily cools off Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The Iran deal will be remembered either as a...

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Diplomacy

The Obama administration’s plan to use a United Nations Security Council resolution this week to force Congress to approve the nuclear deal with Iran would “essentially [abrogate] the treaty power of Congress,” Walter Russell Mead, a historian and professor of foreign affairs at Bard College, wrote Friday in an analysis for...

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Diplomacy

An NGO affiliated with the Palestinian terror organization Hamas is likely to be accredited to operate at the United Nations, Gerald Steinberg, president of the watchdog organization NGO Monitor, wrote today in The New York Post. Adding to the scandal, the move to have the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) join the UN’s Economic and Social...

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Iran

Noting that his country is a mere 50 miles from Iran, Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs, wrote that the nuclear agreement recently reached with the Islamic Republic gives it a chance to be a good neighbor or to “subsidise instability across the region...

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MidEast

The highest-ranking Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have sent a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him not to hold a United Nations Security Council vote to remove sanctions imposed on Iran before Congress has a chance to review the deal. The sanctions were placed on Iran for violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty....

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Diplomacy

The nuclear agreement with Iran will “wreak havoc” across the Middle East, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States for nearly 25 years, wrote in an op-ed, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Writing for the London-based Arabic news Web site Elaph, Badar suggests that President Obama is knowingly making a bad...

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The United States expects that some of the sanctions relief money Iran will receive under the nuclear deal will go to fund terrorism in the Middle East, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. We should expect that some portion of that money...

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Iran

In Alberto Nisman’s Secret Recordings, Revealed, which was published in the July 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine, Eamonn MacDonagh writes that the wiretaps made by Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who died under mysterious circumstances earlier this year, may provide evidence of collusion between the governments of Argentina and Iran in an effort...

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