Foreign Policy’s blog The Cable on Friday published details of a strategy document, co-authored by officials the outlet characterized as carrying “immense political clout” in the debate over Iran, outlining a structure for Congressional sanctions that would take hold in the aftermath of comprehensive nuclear deal between Tehran and the...

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Following Wednesday reports that Tehran is pouring assets into Iraq, analysts are raising concerns that Iranian efforts in the country, which in recent weeks has seen Sunni extremists overtake portions of the country, could complicate U.S. moves aimed at restabilizing the Iraq. Ephraim Kam, a senior research fellow at the...

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Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, is heading to Washington with a delegation of top Israeli nuclear and defense experts in advance of the July 20 deadline in talks with Iran. Israel fears the Americans will back down from demands that Iran comply with multiple United Nations sanctions. The...

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A leading scholar of the Middle East has proposed that the key to understanding how the middle east affects U.S. interests lies less in Al-Qaeda and its affiliates and more in the expansionist efforts of the Iranian regime. Lee Smith, author of The Strong Horse and a senior editor at The...

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On Tuesday the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to seize Iran’s internet domain (.ir) and IP addresses in order to recover more than $1 billion in damages that the Islamic Republic owes for...

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed statements from Iran’s Foreign Ministry blasting the P5+1 global powers for making “excessive demands” in the face of “rational proposals” being put forth by Tehran: “Iran is ready for a resolution and made rational proposals,” the official IRNA news agency quoted foreign minister Mohammad...

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On Wednesday the the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014. The Jerusalem Post reports: The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014, introduced by US Representatives Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), includes a provision to sanction foreign financial institutions that knowingly...

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As a nuclear deal with Iran appears to be drawing closer, Israel is growing more nervous that the international community may settle for a pact that leaves the Islamic Republic with the ability to quickly assemble nuclear weapons. “Also in the past two weeks despite the public’s justifiable attention on...

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Citing a report in the official Iranian news agency IRNA, the Associated Press reported Monday that Iran has arrested three people seen celebrating Iran’s World Cup team in a video (embedded below) posted to YouTube. Provincial police chief Col. Rahmatollah Taheri was quoted as saying the video clip, produced by...

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The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iranian negotiators have continued to deny the West access to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, even as the P5+1 global powers are trying to hammer out an agreement that would force Iran to put its atomic program beyond use for weaponization: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is considered by...

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