Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s angry denial of accusations that Iran is sanitizing the Parchin military site to remove evidence of nuclear work is “an assault on the integrity and prospects of the nuclear deal,” David Albright, the founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a leading nonproliferation think tank,...
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A group of Iraq war veterans have formed a group to oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, Eli Lake and Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View reported yesterday. The group, Veterans Against the Deal, was founded last month as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, and it does not disclose its donors. Its national...
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A Congressional vote to disapprove of the nuclear deal with Iran will not lead to war, Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote in an analysis Monday. First, Iran is unlikely to respond to congressional disapproval by enriching uranium with reckless abandon and thereby validating the skeptics who...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has sent a envoy to Tehran in hopes of boosting ties with Iran, The Times of Israel reported today. PA President Mahmoud Abbas sent Ahmad Majdalani, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, to Iran, where he met with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Majdalani...
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Companies and nations considering making an “unseemly rush” to open commercial ties with Iran in the wake of last month’s nuclear deal should take note of the ordeal of detained Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian before commencing business with the Islamic Republic, an editorial in the Post warned today. Iran is No. 130 out of 189...
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The nuclear deal with Iran will further enrich the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by freeing the organization through which he built his personal fortune from international sanctions, Jonathan Schanzer, a former Treasury Department official who is now the vice-president of research for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies (FDD), and...
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More than 60% of Americans distrust Iran, and a plurality believes that the Islamic Republic got the better part of the nuclear deal with the West, a poll (.pdf) released today by Monmouth University showed. Four-in-ten (41%) say Iran got more of what it wanted from this deal, while just 14% feel the U.S. came...
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A letter written by 29 prominent American scientists in support of the recent nuclear deal with Iran fails to address political aspects of the deal or ambiguities in the wording of the deal, Emily Landau, a leading nuclear nonproliferation expert, wrote in an analysis today in The Times of Israel....
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Among the individuals who will be freed from international sanctions under the terms of the nuclear deal between Iran and the West is Anis Naccache, a former lieutenant of of legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal and attempted assassin of Shahpour Bakhtiar, Iran’s last Shah-era prime minister. Bakhtiar’s nephew, Hooman Bakhtiar, criticized this...
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The nuclear deal with Iran will empower a regime that has killed an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 gays and lesbians since 1979 and enable the increased persecution of sexual minorities in the Islamic Republic, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published...
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