A dispute over the degree to which Iran won enrichment concessions in this weekend’s interim deal has pitted Iran and Russia on one hand against the U.S. and Britain on the other, and is threatening to severely complicate talks aimed at achieving a comprehensive agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program. Iranian...

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Analysts, diplomats, and journalists spent overnight Saturday and into Sunday outlining both the meaning and the implications of an interim agreement secured last night between the P5+1 global powers and Iran. Controversy erupted not just over the substance of the deal – whether it met the benchmark previously set by...

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Israeli media outlets this morning conveyed and further contextualized an infographic, published yesterday by The Israel Project (TIP), evaluating the details of an agreement that the P5+1 global powers and Iran are reportedly close to signing. Arutz 7’s Ari Yashar stated that the graphic “offer[ed] detailed figures and analysis of...

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Efforts by U.S. lawmakers to impose new financial pressure on Iran picked up momentum Thursday, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid committing to having the Senate vote to boost sanctions after the body’s Thanksgiving recess, and 14 other senators, hailing from both parties, declaring that they would cooperate to push...

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The Associated Press describes a burgeoning “strange alliance” between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the latest development in what has become a cascade of regional adjustments by traditional U.S. allies concerned that Washington is ceding its traditional role as a regional power: In one of the region’s oddest pairings, Israel and the Gulf...

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With speculation over impending Iran talks reaching a fever pitch, analysts are outlining what minimum requirements an interim deal with Iran must meet if it is to successfully move Tehran further from being able to construct a nuclear weapon. At stake more precisely is whether Iranian concessions – to be...

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Observers are issuing increasingly sharp warnings that instability in Yemen risks becoming endemic, nearly two years after the fall of Yemen’s then-dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh. A transition sponsored and supported by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has been halting, and the country’s political situation is complicated by at last two...

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Recent days have witnessed something of a rhetorical campaign questioning the motivations and even loyalties of analysts and lawmakers pushing for new sanctions against Iran. Weeks ago the administration line – that sanctions had coerced Iranian leaders into coming to the negotiating table against their will and that new sanctions would derail ongoing...

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Two weeks ago French objections to what the country’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described as a “sucker’s deal” reportedly contributed to blocking a deal between the P5+1 and Iran that would have swapped limited Iranian concessions for relief from international sanctions. Last week Patrick Maisonnave, France’s ambassador to Israel, outlined the...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday took to CNN to criticize what he described as an “extremely bad deal” with Iran that global powers are said to be hopeful they can secure this week in Geneva. It’s not just the terms of the trade – which would allow Iran...

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