Today’s vote by the United Nations Security Council affirming the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal that the Council’s permanent members reached with Iran last week, has been hailed as a means to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. However, it represents a formal departure from the approach that...

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The nuclear deal with Iran “concedes an enrichment capacity that is too large; sunset clauses that are too short; a verification regime that is too leaky; and enforcement mechanisms that are too suspect,” Eric Edelman, a former Defense Department official, and Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow on the Council for Foreign...

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President Barack Obama’s decision to enact a policy of engagement with Iran, rather than opposing its regional ambitions outside of the nuclear deal, will likely lead to an escalation of Iranian aggression, Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jackson Diehl wrote in an op-ed today. Diehl contrasted Obama’s Iranian negotiation strategy with how President Ronald...

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In a speech just four days after Iran completed a nuclear deal with the West, the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave a speech before a huge crowd and praised it for calling for the death of Israel and the United States, The Times of Israel reported on Saturday. Iran’s...

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The recently-signed nuclear deal with Iran was approved unanimously by by the United Nations Security Council today, despite protests from both Republican and Democratic members of Congress on legislative and Constitutional grounds. Reuters reported today: Passage of the resolution triggers a complex set of coordinated steps agreed by Iran during nearly two years of talks with the...

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There’s been a lot of talk lately proclaiming Barack Obama the second coming of Neville Chamberlain. The analogy may be facile, but it is not far-fetched. The accord just reached in Vienna, at best, only temporarily cools off Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The Iran deal will be remembered either as a...

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The Obama administration’s plan to use a United Nations Security Council resolution this week to force Congress to approve the nuclear deal with Iran would “essentially [abrogate] the treaty power of Congress,” Walter Russell Mead, a historian and professor of foreign affairs at Bard College, wrote Friday in an analysis for...

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Noting that his country is a mere 50 miles from Iran, Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs, wrote that the nuclear agreement recently reached with the Islamic Republic gives it a chance to be a good neighbor or to “subsidise instability across the region...

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The highest-ranking Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have sent a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him not to hold a United Nations Security Council vote to remove sanctions imposed on Iran before Congress has a chance to review the deal. The sanctions were placed on Iran for violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty....

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The nuclear agreement with Iran will “wreak havoc” across the Middle East, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States for nearly 25 years, wrote in an op-ed, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Writing for the London-based Arabic news Web site Elaph, Badar suggests that President Obama is knowingly making a bad...

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