An IDF colonel who works on Israel’s air defense system told a conference that Iran is upgrading Hezbollah’s arsenal by adding guidance systems to some the terror group’s rockets, making them an even bigger threat to Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. Speaking at the Israel Air and Missile Defense...

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Noting that President Barack Obama’s stated goals for an acceptable nuclear deal with Iran in 2012 would see Tehran “‘[…] end their nuclear program’ and ‘abide by the U.N. resolutions that have been in place,'” an unsigned staff editorial published today in The Washington Post laments that the president has retreated...

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In the understanding reached on Thursday between the P5+1 global powers and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland, there appears to be a discrepancy in the language on the sequencing of sanctions relief between the European Union/Iran join statement and a factsheet released by the Obama administration on the parameters of the...

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The P5+1 nations and Iran concluded an understanding to limit elements of Iran’s nuclear research and lift international sanctions on Iran today in Lausanne, Switzerland. Even as he praised the agreed-upon parameters, President Barack Obama raised doubts about Iran’s record of abiding by past international commitments. The New York Times reports on some the...

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An “agreement for a framework for a final agreement” between Iran and the P5+1 global powers has been agreed upon, in the words of the German Foreign Ministry, and will be announced in a press conference shortly. The parties plan on finalizing an agreement by June 30, the deadline of the interim Joint...

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In an aggressive exchange with reporters, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced Western attempts to get Iran to compromise on sanctions relief. Zarif’s comments came just before it was announced that the negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland between Iran and the P5+1 powers over the future of Iran’s illicit nuclear program would be extended...

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Even as the Obama administration has backed away from its previously-stated goals in preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, it still has the ability to deter Iran by making clear “in advance what the consequences are” for violating any deal and developing a nuclear weapon, “and that they will be high,”...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today issued a sharply worded condemnation of the West’s decision to continue nuclear talks with Iran, in light of the latest threat made by Iran against Israel. The Times of Israel reported: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday excoriated world powers over their dogged pursuit...

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The concessions built into the deal currently taking shape between the P5+1 and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland may be so extensive as to undermine the possibility of long-term monitoring, and fail to stretch Iran’s breakout time to a year, according to former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy director Olli Heinonen....

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An Iranian journalist who served as a media advisor to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani defected to the West over the weekend, protesting that he could “only write what he was told.” Reuters reported that Amir Hossein Motaghi was on the team that helped Rouhani win the 2013 presidential elections. “My conscience would...

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