The WikiLeaks organization released a top secret memo from the Saudi embassy in Khartoum alleging that Iran had shipped nuclear equipment, including advanced centrifuges, to Sudan in 2012, The Times of Israel reported today. The memo, dated February 2012 and marked as “very secret,” was leaked last week by the WikiLeaks...

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In order to finalize a deal ensuring that Iran will be prevented from developing nuclear weapons, the West needs to focus on “sharpening the consequences should Tehran fail to accept the P5+1 proposals,” according an analysis published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. The piece, written by Michael Singh, managing director of the Washington Institute...

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A bipartisan group of former senators has banded to highlight the dangers of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Politico reported Tuesday. The latest salvo lands Wednesday, when the American Security Initiative, a bipartisan group chaired by former senators, unleashes an ad blitz, urging eight senators from both parties to...

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Iran’s breakout time under the emerging nuclear deal could be less than the Obama administration’s estimate of one year, according to Alan J. Kuperman, associate professor and coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas in Austin. Writing in The New York Times yesterday, Kuperman argued...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he would refuse to allow a halt his nation’s nuclear research, and demanded an immediate end to sanctions upon signing a nuclear deal with the West, Reuters reported Tuesday. “Freezing Iran’s Research and Development (R&D) for a long time like 10 or 12...

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The State Department’s 2014 Country Reports on Terrorism (.pdf) once again listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and called the Islamic Republic a “proliferation concern,” according to an analysis of the report written by Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall and published today by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). Chapter...

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In his pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama could be “headed down the wrong path,” possibly allowing Iran “to further threaten Middle Eastern stability, jeopardize American interests, or destroy our strongest ally,” Congresswoman Kristi Noem wrote Sunday in an op-ed published in the Black Hills Pioneer....

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Philip Hammond and Laurent Fabius, respectively the top diplomats of Britain and France, called for Iran to submit to verification of its nuclear program to ensure that it is peaceful, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. “Britain wants a robust and verifiable deal with Iran that ensures that its nuclear programme in...

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Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said that there is “no daylight” between his position on the emerging nuclear deal with Iran and the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The Telegraph published today. If the US Administration hoped that Mr Herzog might dilute Israel’s visceral suspicion of...

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The effectiveness of a nuclear deal with Iran could be undercut by “bureaucratic neglect—or a political desire to look the other way,” argued an editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal published today. The piece was commenting on a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that the State Department “had failed to provide...

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