Although the State Department has said that a proposed arms deal between Russia and Iran would violate a United Nations Security Council ban on weapons transfers to Iran, doubts are emerging whether the Obama administration will actually move to block the deal, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday. Iran announced...

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The Obama administration said that the proposed sale of Russian fighter jets to Iran would violate the United Nations Security Council resolution that supported the nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said that the purchase of the aircraft as part of an $8 billion Russian...

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Seven months after it was first announced, the nuclear deal with Iran remains deeply unpopular in the United States, with nearly twice as many Americans opposing the agreement as supporting it, according to a poll released Wednesday by Gallup. The poll, conducted from February 3-7, found that 57% of Americans...

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The use of Shi’ite militias from across the Middle East to boost the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is the latest example of how Iran uses “Shiite proxies to bolster its reach and influence” across the region, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. Fighters from Hezbollah, Iran’s...

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Iranian military officials announced Monday that they plan to purchase $8 billion worth of arms from Russia, the latest sign of growing economic and military ties between the two countries in the wake of the nuclear deal signed last year. Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan and other senior defense officials have spent the last two days...

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Germany will not fully normalize ties with Iran until it recognizes Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin Tuesday. Although German government and business leaders have been making overtures to Iran in recent months after the Islamic Republic’s economy was freed up...

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Fresh on the heels of its widely–derided video of the modern history of Israel, Vox, the website known for its often incorrect explanations of complicated issues, mocked as “Voxsplaining,” has just released a video “explaining” how Iran can be a dictatorship and democracy at the same time. In the three...

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) slammed the Obama administration’s proposed cut in funds for counter-terrorism programs nationwide as “ill-advised and ill-timed,” the Associated Press reported Sunday. Under the White House’s proposed 2017 budget, which was released last week, federal funding to the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) would be reduced...

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The provisions that the Obama administration is considering for the Visa Waiver Program, which would exempt Iranian dual nationals from having to obtain a visa when traveling to the United States, pose both a security risk and a threat to the sanctions regime in place against Tehran, according to testimony...

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Ambassador Stephen Mull, the White House official charged with overseeing the nuclear deal with Iran, admitted to Congress Thursday that the United States doesn’t know the exact location of the enriched uranium Iran was supposed to ship to Russia. Mull was pressed on that point by Rep. Chris Smith (R – N.J.)...

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