Tensions deepened on Thursday between the White House and Congress over the Obama administration’s diplomacy toward Iran, after the Wall Street Journal reported that that President Barack Obama had sent a secret letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei discussing a proposed nuclear deal and suggesting that Washington and Tehran...

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In the Daily Beast today, Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla) call attention to Iran’s “horrific” human rights record , which “deserves equal attention” as its nuclear ambitions and support of international terrorism. Using the recent execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari as a starting point, Kirk and Rubio focus on the...

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An editorial that appeared Monday in the defense industry magazine Defense News admonished the P5+1 not to “let Iran off the nuclear hook.” The editorial noted that the West is “bending to Iranian demands  to allow limited enrichment and shutter, not scrap, its vast nuclear complex and banks of enriching centrifuges.” This...

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Reuters revealed today the existence of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document charging that Iran has failed to address questions about its past nuclear research. Reuters has more: Iran is failing to address suspicions it may have worked on designing an atomic bomb, according to the latest report by a U.N. watchdog,...

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The Wall Street Journal reported today (Google link) that President Barack Obama wrote a secret letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month that “appeared aimed both at buttressing the campaign against Islamic State and nudging Iran’s religious leader closer to a nuclear deal.” Mr. Obama stressed to...

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Bloomberg News reported on the ongoing tension in and around Jerusalem marked by two terror attacks yesterday involving cars driving into pedestrians. Palestinian rage has erupted after Israel temporarily closed the Temple Mount, a sacred site to both Jews and Muslims, in response to Arab youths throwing stones at visitors. …...

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Iran is the one of the few countries in the world that imposes the death penalty on individuals because they are gay or lesbian. Clerics in the Islamic Republic often pressure gay Iranians to undergo sex change operations, which drives many homosexuals to flee the country. An article that appeared...

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At a joint press conference Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iran must prove its nuclear program is peaceful. Voice of America (VOA) reported that the two diplomats agreed “that Iran has a right to a peaceful nuclear program but ‘not a track...

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The deadline for the P5+1 nations and Iran to reach a deal to keep Iran from ever having nuclear weapons arrives next month, and negotiators are working overtime to reach a deal that would supposedly stop their nuclear program. Yet critics have suggested that the impending deal would do the exact opposite—preserve Iran’s technology and...

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The Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday that photos appearing on Iraqi news sites showed that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani was involved in a recent battle to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the Iraqi city of Jurf al-Sakher. The AP also...

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