According to the draft of a secret side deal negotiated between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Tehran will play a significant role in inspecting the military facility and suspected nuclear site at Parchin, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. Although this is a draft agreement, the AP’s sources...

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Israel struck several targets inside Syria in retaliation for four rockets that hit the northern Galilee and Golan Heights late Thursday afternoon, The Times of Israel reported today. The Israeli military said it fired artillery shells at several Syrian targets Thursday evening, hours after four rockets were fired into Israel...

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Rather than preventing war, the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will stoke Tehran’s regional ambitions and increase the likelihood of a major regional conflict, Joshua Muravchik, a distinguished fellow at the World Affairs Institute, wrote yesterday in an analysis for The Weekly Standard....

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A video depicting an invasion of Jerusalem by Iranian troops and Tehran’s proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, was released on a website affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The Times of Israel reported yesterday. The clip, in boxy computer animation reminiscent of video games from the mid-1990s, opens with...

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Russia will complete a deal, as early as next week, to sell the sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Iran despite longstanding American objections, Fox News reported today. Despite a ban on arms shipments to Iran under international sanctions, Russia appears willing to proceed with the sale of advanced S-300 surface-to-air missiles to...

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In a departure from the usual procedure, Iran will be allowed to use its own “experts and equipment” to provide international inspectors with environmental samples from the military base and suspected nuclear site Parchin, the Associated Press (AP) reported today, citing a classified draft of a side agreement between Iran...

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Both Democratic and Republican members of Congress oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as its failure to permanently restrict Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb is a “bipartisan concern,” Sen. Steve Daines (R – Mont.) argued in an op-ed published in...

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The United Nations stood behind condemnation of the Syrian government issued by special envoy Staffan de Mistura after Sunday airstrikes on a busy marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus, left a reported 96 people dead, the Associated Press reported yesterday. In a statement Monday, de Mistura condemned the government...

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Sen. Robert Menendez (D – N.J.), a top Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today, saying the agreement “failed to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state at a time of its choosing,” The Washington Post reports. Menendez...

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Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and one of its chief nuclear negotiators, said that no nuclear inspectors will be allowed to enter the Islamic Republic unless previously approved by its intelligence agency, the Washington Free Beacon reported yesterday. “Any individual, out of IAEA’s Inspection group, who is not approved...

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