Reuters on Tuesday conveyed new statements from French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declaring that Iran must only be allowed to maintain a few hundred centrifuges in the context of any comprehensive deal between Tehran and the P5+1 global powers, amid moves by the Iranians to hold bilateral negotiations with various...

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The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Tuesday that leading members of the the House Foreign Affairs Committee are questioning the Obama administration’s apparent decision to cooperate with the Palestinian unity government that was agreed to last week between the ruling Fatah party and the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and...

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Lebanon’s former head of General Security Jamil al-Sayyed, who spent four years in jail because of his alleged role in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, has launched a campaign to end the power-sharing arrangement between Shi’ites, Sunnis and Druze. This would effectively pave the way for Hezbollah...

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) revealed on Tuesday that Iran and Germany will hold talks over Iran’s nuclear program outside the structure of ongoing P5+1 negotiations: German officials will visit Tehran on Sunday for talks on Iran’s nuclear drive, top Iranian negotiator and deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday. The...

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Top foreign policy leaders from the House of Representatives set down clear red lines on Tuesday against providing Iran with any additional financial relief – not as an extension of the current interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), let alone as the result of a comprehensive nuclear agreement – in...

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An official visit to Turkey by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani triggered a flurry of diplomatic statements and economic agreements celebrated by both sides on Monday, announcements that were read by observers as straightforward evidence that relations between the two sometimes rivals were on the upswing, and which came just as...

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Iranian officials over the weekend acknowledged plans to hold meetings with the United States and Russia outside of ongoing negotiations between the P5+1 global powers and Tehran, a development that media outlets described as everything from evidence that the parties were scrambling to reinvigorate faltering talks over the Islamic republic’s...

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Bashar al-Assad’s re-election earlier this week is viewed by Iran as “a defeat for the United States and some Arab countries in the region,” according to an analysis published Friday by a Harvard-affiliated scholar. Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, an Iranian-American political scientist who serves on the board of the Harvard International Review, writes:...

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The Hindu on Friday conveyed recent remarks from Hassan Nourian – Iran’s Consul General in Hyderabad – urging Indians to shrug off American pressure aimed at limiting trade with the Islamic republic: Pointing out that India was a big economy which has twice the landmass of Iran and 15 times...

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As Iran shows no concrete sign of ending its nuclear program and continues its threats towards the West and interests in the region, its Arab neighbors have begun introducing the compulsory military draft for their young men. The president of the United Arab Emirates on Saturday issued a law implementing...

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