The State Department issued an advisory warning Americans not to visit Iran due to the threat of detention and imprisonment on false charges, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “This deal over Iran’s nuclear program does not alter the United States’s assessment of the risks of travel to Iran for...

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Representative Brad Sherman (D – Calif.), the second highest ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that he will vote against the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), The Hill reported Friday. “A strong Congressional vote against the Agreement is the...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Qods Force commander, General Qassem Suleimani, traveled to Russia last month following the agreement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal with Iran is known, in violation of sanctions imposed the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and United...

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Top Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) announced yesterday evening their opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Schumer is one of the senior Democrats in the Senate and is slated to become...

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American victims of terror attacks perpetrated by Iran-backed groups have filed suit to prevent the United States from unfreezing Iranian bank accounts as part of the recent nuclear deal between Tehran and the West. The lawsuit, organized by Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, is on behalf of two dozen...

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American intelligence has detected Iran attempting to sanitize Parchin, the military site where the Islamic Republic is suspected of carrying out tests on detonators that could be used to trigger nuclear explosions, Josh Rogin and Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported on Wednesday. The U.S. intelligence community has informed Congress...

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Senators from both parties left a closed-door meeting today with the UN’s nuclear agency today upset by the agency’s lack of clarity, raising more questions than they had going in, The Hill reported today. Multiple Senate lawmakers emerged fuming from a nearly two-hour closed-door briefing with the globe’s top nuclear watchdog...

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Iranian Jews who immigrated to Great Neck, New York expressed frustration with the world’s naivete in agreeing to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, The Times of Israel reported today. The Times conducted a series of interviews with members of the community in the run-up to the Congressional vote...

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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a “bad agreement” that will leave Israel and the rest of the world dealing with its “dangerous” consequences, Israel’s former national security advisor, Gen. Yaacov Amidror, wrote in an analysis published Wednesday by the Begin and Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. The agreement...

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Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, criticized Iran for sentencing Mohammed Ali Taheri, the founder of alternative medicine movements in Iran, to death for the crime of “corruption on earth.”Al-Hussein made his comments in a press release issued today. “Iran’s use of the death penalty has long...

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