A foundation run by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stands to be a major beneficiary of lifted sanctions as part of the nuclear deal with Iran, Reuters reported Tuesday. Khamenei has yet to publicly back the accord, which lifts some sanctions on Iran in return for limits on its nuclear program. But...
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Qasssem Suleimani, the general of Iran’s elite militia who is subject to UN sanctions and a travel ban, reportedly met this week with Russian leaders in Moscow for the second time in two months. The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir, known as being sympathetic to the terrorist group Hezbollah, reported on Tuesday that Suleimani,...
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A prominent Iranian dissident has exposed the extensive commercial and political links between National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and a number of key figures in the Iranian regime, including current President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Writing in the Daily Beast under the pseudonym “Alex Shirazi,” the dissident...
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Citing her record as an opponent of the Iraq war, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D – Ariz.) expressed her opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran Thursday in a press release. While Sinema praised the administration for its efforts to make a deal she concluded that “ultimately the risks inherent in this...
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The chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has announced that his nation has discovered an unexpected new source of uranium, raising doubts about earlier assessments that Iran had insufficient supply of uranium to fuel its nuclear program. Reuters reported Saturday: “I cannot announce (the level of) Iran’s uranium mine reserves. The...
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The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted down a resolution approving of the nuclear deal with Iran by a vote of 269-162. Twenty-five Democrats were among those disapproving the deal. A second resolution that would prevent President Barack Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran was subsequently passed. The Hill reported more: While the failure of...
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Many of the senators who support the nuclear deal with Iran, and who voted Thursday to filibuster and prevent an up-or-down vote, have made strong cases against the deal they advocate for, Mitchell Bard, executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, observed in The Times of Israel Thursday. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said on...
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A Senate vote to end debate on the nuclear deal with Iran fell short of its required margin today, preventing a full vote to disapprove the deal itself. A bipartisan group of 58 senators voted to invoke cloture on debating the resolution, two short of the 60 votes required to pass. The remaining...
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Filibustering a vote on the Iran deal would be “unfair and unwise” and “contrary to the spirit of the Constitution,” former Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in an op-ed (Google link) today in The Wall Street Journal. Lieberman called on Senate Democrats and the White House not to block a vote on the deal, which...
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The White House’s failure to provide Congress with all of the side deals connected to the nuclear agreement with Iran means that the 60-day countdown clock for a vote hasn’t started, Northwestern University law professor Eugene Kontorovich wrote today in an analysis in The Washington Post The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015,...
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