The Washington Post reported earlier this week that images smuggled out of a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria show “disturbing images of emaciated children and elderly people” and indicate that there are thousands of residents in the Yarmouk camp at risk of starvation, the result of a siege being maintained by Syria’s...

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The erosion of American influence in the Middle East has created power vacuums which are being filled by geopolitical rivals from across the region, forcing Washington’s allies to “take matters into their own hands,” according to analysis published Wednesday in the New York Times. Michael Doran and Max Boot – senior fellows...

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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer blasted the White House on Tuesday for accusing U.S. lawmakers who favor pressuring Iran of seeking to drag America into a war. “There have been some that have suggested in the White House that those folks were more interested in war than they were in the resolution...

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A central White House argument against Senate legislation that would impose future sanctions on Iran should negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program fail – that any bill doing so would drain bilateral good will necessary for diplomacy to succeed – may now face deepening skepticism after top Iranian government officials engaged...

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Journalists and analysts struggled yesterday to evaluate how the weekend announcement regarding the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – revealing that the deal’s implementation will begin January 20th, at which point the six month negotiations clock will start ticking – would affect a legislative push in the Senate to lock in...

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The White House is refusing to make public the details of the implementation agreement codified this weekend regarding the Joint Plan of Action (JPA), and has even reportedly committed to a secret side deal with Iran that describes the concessions that the Islamic republic is obligated to make. The Los Angeles Times late on Monday conveyed...

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Reuters on Monday published photos taken earlier that day showing “Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif… lay[ing] a wreath at the grave of assassinated Hezbollah military commander” Imad Mughniyeh, a terrorist who was killed in 2008 after having spent literally decades killing Americans and others on behalf of his paymasters in Tehran....

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BuzzFeed reported Friday that the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act – Senate legislation that would impose sanctions on Tehran should negotiations over its nuclear program fail – had secured a veto-proof majority and was in fact “well above 67 [votes],” per a Senate aide who spoke to the outlet. CNN’s Jim Sciutto had earlier...

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Pro-Iran, anti-sanctions groups call for Iranian impunity for terrorist attacks on the United States, oppose final deal that prevents Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, funded by the famously soft-on-Iran Ploughshares Fund (which also underwrites the notorious pro-Iran lobby NIAC, and has spent millions of dollars to...

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Empirical evidence is emerging on what had long been a central theoretical disagreement in the debate over the Joint Plan of Action (JPA), with multiple data points suggesting that the Obama administration has been over-optimistic in assuming that sanctions against Iran would largely hold in the aftermath of the JPA’s...

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