If her speech Wednesday at the Brookings Institution is any indication, Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy agenda will mark a break with her former boss, President Barack Obama, according to a Washington Post analysis. Notably, the Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state advocated for confronting Iran more forcefully despite her announced support...

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D – Calif.), an Air Force veteran and a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today in a detailed 23-page press release (.pdf). Lieu stated that his opposition to the deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan...

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Hillary Clinton promised that she would “act decisively” as president to ensure Iran did not violate the recent nuclear deal. The leading presidential candidate and former secretary of state told an audience at the Brookings Institution today that Iran will “want to see how far they can bend the rules,” but that she would “hold...

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Public support for the nuclear deal with Iran has dropped sharply from 33% to just 21% in two months’ time, according to a poll published yesterday by the Pew Research Center. In mid-July, a week after President Obama announced the deal, 33% of the public approved of the agreement, while...

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The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former First Minister of Northern Ireland and the former Prime Minister of Spain called on Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Hill. David Trimble and Jose Maria Aznar argued that the deal, formally known as the Joint...

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Nearly three-quarters of Americans who support the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal with Iran is known, oppose an attempt in the Senate to filibuster the vote on the agreement, according to a new poll by Olive Tree Strategies that was released today. Overall, 56% of all respondents oppose...

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Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared on his English-language Twitter account today that Israel – or the “Zionist regime” – will be gone in 25 years. In his message, Khamenei said, “God willing there will be nothing of Zionist regime by 25 years.” He added, “Until then, struggling, heroic...

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The United States gets “nothing but grief” from the nuclear deal with Iran, the former head of U.S. military intelligence said today. Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, who served as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, said in an interview published on the website Medium that the deal could...

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America’s interpretation of the Iran nuclear deal is inaccurate, the speaker of the Iranian parliament told NPR in an interview today. Ali Larijani says the agreement is good enough. He adds that [the] United States’ reading of that deal, particularly when it comes to sanctions, is not good at all. And he’s hoping that the...

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D -W.Va.) announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today, becoming the 58th senator and fourth Democrat to do so. West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported: “Whenever I am able, I will choose diplomacy over war because the stakes are so high for West Virginia, which has...

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