A new report published on Monday by top figures at the U.S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) sought to clarify what has emerged as a growing debate about the degree to which Iran will be forced to live up to its obligation to disclose so-called “possible military dimensions” (PMD)...

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Ambassador Dennis Ross, who served as President Obama’s special adviser on Iran during his first term, co-chaired a task force whose report, published Monday, offers a stark and pointed assessment of last year’s P5+1 interim agreement over the Iranian nuclear program, also known as the Joint Plan of Action (JPA). The report,written by the Iran...

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Though conventional wisdom holds that “that Sunni al Qaeda couldn’t possibly cooperate with Shia Iran,” another piece of evidence has emerged that Iran does indeed cooperate with the Sunni terror group. A recent statement made by a spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Muhammad al Adnani, claims that...

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Officials from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog disclosed on Friday that they had demanded more information from Iranian officials regarding tests on detonators – specifically, on Exploding Bridge Wire (EBW) detonators – suspected of having been conducted with the aim of creating nuclear warheads, the latest...

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Despite the ongoing P5+1 negotiations between the West and Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed expectations of any compromise on his country’s ballistic missile program as “stupid” and “idiotic.” UPI reports on the statements made to Iran’s IRNA news agency. So this is a stupid, idiotic expectation …...

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Iran will continue to develop its nuclear program and refuses to “retreat even an iota,” the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, said May 11. “All westerners, easterners and the (Group) 5+1 (six world powers engaged in nuclear talks with Iran) should know that we will not retreat a single step in...

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The Wall Street Journal on Thursday conveyed commitments from Iran’s oil minister vowing to boost the country’s crude exports despite what the outlet described as “a cap agreed upon with the international community.” The interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which Iran and the P5+1 global powers had agreed...

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President Barack Obama was honored Wednesday by the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation. Filmmaker Stephen Spielberg, who created the foundation, presented the president with the Ambassador for Humanity award. In his remarks, the president condemned the official anti-Semitism of foreign governments such as Iran. And that includes confronting a rising tide of anti-Semitism around...

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During her recent trip to Israel, American National Security Adviser Susan Rice hailed American strategic cooperation with Israel as an “investment in protecting the many interests that our nations share.” The Times of Israel reported: Rice said that the new deal “will take our total investment in Iron Dome, which has...

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Syrian rebel groups on Wednesday began clearing out of the strategic city of Homs under a deal that the Washington Post described as “loaded with poignancy for the opposition,” with hundreds of fighters allowed to carry only a single weapon as they boarded buses conveying them to the countryside. The...

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