Politico yesterday reported on a confrontation between State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki and Fox News’s Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen, in which Rosen pressed Psaki on statements made in February by State’s then-spokesperson Victoria Nuland, in which Nuland was asked about the existence of bilateral talks with Tehran: With current State Department spokesperson...

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The Washington Post on Thursday described the interim agreement signed between the global P5+1 powers and Iran as “notable for its omissions,” and expressed concern over the deal: But the agreement leaves the United States and its partners at a disadvantage in negotiating the comprehensive settlement. The concessions made to Iran will...

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A statement issued last week by Yukiya Amano, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, emphasizes that the organization continues to be concerned about possible clandestine elements in Iran’s nuclear program oriented toward the production of a nuclear weapon: The Agency continues to verify the...

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TIME reports that Saudi Arabia is considering acquiring nuclear weapons – almost certain to be purchased off the shelf from Pakistan, the nuclear program of which Riyadh sponsored – in response to fears that the international community is positioning Iran to complete what is widely believed to be its drive toward producing...

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The State Department acknowledged last week that the recently announced agreement widely described as freezing Iran’s nuclear program in fact permits Tehran to continue construction at its Arak complex, after statements by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif committed the Islamic republic to bolstering the plutonium facility during the agreement’s six-month interim period: The...

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The State Department acknowledged last week that Iran currently has a window of time during which it is allowed to continue its nuclear activity unrestrained by an interim agreement announced last month in Geneva, with State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki telling reporters that the six-month period during which the administration is precluding...

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Iranian dissidents, U.S. lawmakers, and analysts have all in recent days criticized what Roya Boroumand – executive director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, a human rights group that monitors abuses in Iran – described to the Daily Beast as “the fact that human rights and democracy have not been the subject of...

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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared today that renewed Turkish-Iranian ties will “become the backbone of regional stability” in the Middle East. “In my point of view, when Turkey and Iran join hands, this will not only benefit both countries, but also become the backbone of regional stability,” Davutoğlu said, pointing to...

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Statements made today by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, which, per Reuters, committed Iran to making continued progress on its plutonium-producing facility at Arak “despite an agreement with Western powers to halt activity,” are set to fuel skepticism about White House assurances that the interim deal worked out in Geneva...

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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham was quoted by Iranian state media today declaring that the White House is mischaracterizing the terms of an interim agreement signed this weekend between the P5+1 and Iran, a statement that threatens to deepen an already-pitched controversy over the degree to which the agreement conceded that...

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