Congress must perform a thorough review of any nuclear deal with Iran that is submitted by the administration, Jeffrey Robbins, who served as a staff attorney in the Senate and as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council, wrote in an op-ed published today in The Boston...

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The sanctions relief that is slated to accompany the emerging nuclear deal with Iran will likely enrich and further entrench Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters reported on Monday. The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more than just a...

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Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president of Iran and an ally of current President Hassan Rouhani, called for the destruction of Israel and described the country as “alien” and “temporary,” according to a report Monday in Iran’s official IRNA news agency. Rafsanjani, who heads the powerful Expediency Council, which...

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Iran is demanding that the United Nations Security Council lift its embargo on the country’s arms industry in the context of the emerging nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations, The Los Angeles Times reported today. “The treatment of Iran by the [United Nations] Security Council has been terrible, to put...

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Criticizing the emerging nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran, Andrew Bowen, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest, argued that the agreement will come at the “expense of both Washington’s allies and the U.S.’ long-term strategic interests in the Middle East” in an analysis published...

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The Iranian government has started to promote the emerging nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations as a victory stemming from American concessions, Ha’aretz reported Sunday. But a major revelation happened Saturday night when Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian TV the two sides were very close to agreeing...

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Leaders of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah met last week in Beirut with officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a report by Avi Issacharoff in The Times of Israel. Senior members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah met with officials...

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Top lawmakers, military analysts, and media outlets are broadly suggesting that coziness between the Obama administration and Iranian officials will weaken the details and enforcement of whatever nuclear deal emerges from the negotiations in Vienna, Austria. Concerns began to openly surface as the latest talks commenced, with both the Associated...

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Iran and the P5+1 nations have drawn up a draft proposal for the lifting of sanctions in the event that Tehran complies with a comprehensive nuclear agreement, the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday. Written by technical experts, the document still must be approved by senior officials of the seven nations at...

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Leading Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, says that even with a nuclear deal Iran will still be “the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism,” Yahoo! politics reported Friday. “But even if we do get such a deal, we will still have major problems from Iran,” she said. “They...

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