President Barack Obama made a number of inaccurate claims about the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran in an interview with Reuters yesterday. In the course of the interview the President charged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was wrong in his assessment of Iran’s behavior since the P5+1 agreed to the...

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In recent weeks, as details of a nuclear deal between the West and Iran leak out, an increasing number of writers and analysts have expressed concern about the assumptions underpinning the emerging deal. Among the critics are a number who have, in the past, been aligned with the Obama administration. In addition...

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America’s Middle Eastern allies are concerned that they “haven’t had their say” in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, told Luke Russert this morning in an interview (embedded below) on The Briefing on MSNBC. Hazony’s argument is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t just be representing Israel...

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A bipartisan bill requiring Congressional review of any nuclear deal agreed to with Iran was introduced in the Senate Friday. The lead senators on the bill are Bob Corker (R – Tenn.), Robert Menendez (D- N.J.), Lindsey Graham (R- S.C. ) and Tim Kaine (D-Va. ). Josh Rogin in Bloomberg View reports: According to...

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The only diplomacy that will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons is diplomacy that will force Iran “to make a choice between its nuclear infrastructure and the fuel cycle on the one hand, and access to nuclear peaceful and economic relief on the other,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The...

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Saying that “[t]his process cannot continue indefinitely,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today released its latest findings about Iran’s nuclear program and reported that Iran is still not cooperating with the nuclear watchdog, in violation of the commitments it made in the November 2013 Joint Plan of Action (JPOA)....

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Iran is stepping up its offensive against rebels in southern Syria, exacerbating “the tensions on Israel’s northern border,” Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, and Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published yesterday. The Iran/Hezbollah/Assad troika has long threatened to develop the...

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Anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne gave a gift of a golden “quennelle” to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to the Islamic Republic, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Friday: Dieudonne visited the Islamic Republic last week, the news site fararu.com reported, and presented Ahmadinejad with a golden statue of...

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Only 11% of Americans view Iran favorably, according to the results of a Gallup poll released today. As the United States and several other nations continue to negotiate what would be a landmark agreement to limit Iran’s production of nuclear weapons, more than eight in 10 Americans view Iran unfavorably...

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The United States Treasury Department designated two members of Hezbollah who are running an amusement park in Nigeria. Armin Rosen of Business Insider reports: The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control added two individuals to its specially designated nationals list on February 26: Fouzi Reda Darwish Fawaz and Mustapha...

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