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The website of the Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera featured an op-ed on Thursday praising the perpetrators of last week’s terror attack at a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof. News of the post first broke in English on the blog “Elder of Ziyon.” Part of the commentary, translated from the Arabic,...

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MidEast

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced his resignation today. The move was first reported by The New York Times: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel handed in his resignation on Monday, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national...

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Diplomacy

VIENNA – As negotiations between the West and Iran over the country’s illicit nuclear program reached its deadline without any agreement, negotiators extended their target date for a comprehensive deal to June 30 next year, with a “political framework agreement” expected by March 1. However, according to an unnamed Western diplomat, the extension isn’t likely...

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Human Rights

As negotiations over the fate of its nuclear program continue in Vienna, Iranian officials have revealed shocking new statistics about the lives of women and children under the Ayatollahs’ regime, including the fact that 1.7 million children are currently working in Iran, according to the state-run News Network TV. Mostafa Fayzi, head of...

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Diplomacy

Amid reports that a nuclear deal between the West and Iran is unlikely to be reached by tomorrow’s deadline, an editorial in The Washington Post today called on the Obama administration to consult Congress to help shape an effective deal. In Washington, delay is also useful because President Obama has failed...

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Diplomacy

VIENNA – With only a day to go before the deadline to reach an agreement over the future of Iran’s nuclear program, Western and Iranian news media are making dramatically different claims over how negotiations will conclude. A report in Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency claimed that a “political agreement” would be announced tomorrow, and Iranian officials...

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Iran

Iranian sources have revealed that Iran supplied the terrorist organization Hezbollah with a new missile containing a large warhead that it claims can reach the Dimona nuclear reactor in southern Israel, the Ya-Libnan news site reported at the weekend, citing an Iranian news agency. The FARS news agency, which is affiliated with the...

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Diplomacy

VIENNA – The resolution of a nuclear deal between Iran and the West looks increasingly unlikely, as a member of the Iranian negotiating team told Iranian state media that agreeing to a final deal before tomorrow’s deadline would be “impossible.” As Reuters reported: “Considering the short time left until the deadline and number of issues...

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Diplomacy

As negotiations continue between the Western powers and Iran over the country’s illegal nuclear program, a front page article in The New York Times today documented the difficulty the West would have in fashioning an agreement that would account for Iran’s hidden nuclear research. Unstated is the fear of a more problematic...

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Diplomacy

The Western nations currently negotiating with Iran over the fate of the country’s illicit nuclear program will “likely stop short of demanding full disclosure of any secret weapon work by Tehran,” according to a report in Reuters: Officially, the United States and its Western allies say it is vital that Iran fully addresses...

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