The Associated Press on Sunday reported that efforts in Lausanne, Switzerland to seal a nuclear framework agreement with Iran are being hampered by continuing Iranian demands regarding research and development of enrichment technology. The P5 +1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia – are calling...

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Placing trust in Iran to abide by the nuclear deal being negotiated would be “short-sighted and wrong,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The New Jersey Star Ledger. The Israel Project published The Tower. Citing Ayatollah Ali...

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The Iranians continue to show signs of inflexibility in the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in comments to reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York, said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was “not very precise” about Tehran’s willingness to compromise...

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Sen. Harry Reid (D – Nev.) announced his retirement today and backed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) to succeed him as Senate Minority Leader. The news comes one day after Schumer signed as co-sponsor of a bill to require legislative review of any Iran nuclear deal agreed to by...

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Iran’s nuclear program is vulnerable to both military attack and economic pressure, Middle East expert Lee Smith argued in an essay that appears in the current issue of The Weekly Standard. While Smith acknowledged that “you can’t bomb knowledge,” or, in other words, make Iranian nuclear scientists forget their technical...

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In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, the Senate unanimously passed a proposal put forward by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Thursday that would re-impose sanctions on Iran if Tehran was found to be in noncompliance with any nuclear agreement. The vote was 100-0. The nonbinding language is grounded in sections of the...

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In Congressional testimony two weeks ago, retired Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn stated that the United States is “at war with violent and extreme Islamists (both Sunni and Shia) and we must accept and face this.” It is time to make a choice—push, before we are pushed. But the United...

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The Associated Press has reported that the United States is considering allowing Iran to continue to operate hundreds of centrifuges at Fordow, an underground nuclear complex outside of the city of Qom. The Iranians would reportedly be able to feed elements such as zinc, xenon, or germanium at the site, rather than...

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Tensions between Arab states and Iran, which erupted into a hot war overnight in Yemen with a Saudi-led military offensive against the Iranian-backed Houthi militants, are hanging over the ongoing negotiations between the P5+1 nations and Tehran in Lausanne, Switzerland. The talks, which revolve around Iran’s nuclear program, are expected...

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The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Western powers are scaling back their demands for Iranian disclosure about the possible military dimensions (PMDs) of its nuclear program. According to diplomats close to the negotiations, Iranian refusal to comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) probes into the PMDs...

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