Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Vienna that ongoing negotiations between the P5+1 global powers and Iran had made progress but that more work was needed before a final agreement could be reached, If we don’t get a deal, if we don’t have a deal, if there’s absolute...

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The United States is prepared to grant Iran sanctions relief before it comes clean about its previous nuclear work, according to reports emerging from the nuclear negotiations in Vienna. The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that he believed that with Iran’s cooperation, he could resolve all issues...

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In The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It, Emanuele Ottolenghi explains how the United States and its allies wasted the leverage they had gained through years of building international sanctions against Iran, and how that will undermine the effectiveness of the emerging nuclear deal. The...

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Western diplomats said that the “red lines” set out by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week are preventing any breakthrough in the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 nations, Reuters reported today. Major issues still yet to be agreed include monitoring and verification steps to ensure that Iran does...

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The United States and its partners should not rush to make a nuclear agreement with Iran, a staff editorial in Toronto’s Globe and Mail argued Wednesday. The editorial frames its argument around last week’s open letter signed by eighteen experts and former government officials, including five who served in the Obama administration, calling on the...

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The process by which Iran reduced its stock of low enriched uranium prior to the June 30 negotiating deadline violated the terms of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), the agreement it signed with the West in November 2013, according to an analysis (.pdf) published today by the Institute for Science and International...

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The expected windfall Iran would receive from sanctions relief as part of a nuclear deal would likely benefit its internal and external security services—including proxy terrorist groups such as Hezbollah—which would further destabilize the Middle East, according to an analysis published today in The Wall Street Journal by Michael Singh, the managing director...

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Although the West and Iran agreed to extend nuclear negotiations a week past the June 30 deadline, major differences still exist between the two sides, USA Today reported Tuesday. Iran has publicly rejected allowing international nuclear inspectors into military sites, and has demanded immediate sanctions relief. According to a fact sheet released by...

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If the administration makes a bad nuclear deal with Iran, Congress should reject it, Josh Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed for The Miami Herald Tuesday. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. After noting that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected a number of conditions that would...

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The United States and its partners must re-establish strategic deterrence in order to ensure that the emerging nuclear deal with Iran preserves regional security, argued an analysis written Monday by Gen. (ret) Michael Herzog, an international fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. After noting that elements of the deal leave...

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