The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that it intends to sell $10.8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with Bloomberg describing the move as designed to send “a message of support” to Gulf allies known to be increasingly critical of the Obama’s administration’s general...

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The Washington Post on Thursday brushed off repeated Iranian assertions that the Islamic republic has an absolute “right” to enrich uranium, matter-of-factly noting that “no ‘right’ to enrich uranium exists in the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” that enrichment is not “needed for a nuclear program,” that “many countries using nuclear power do...

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The Obama administration is said to be considering a proposal that would provide non-sanctions financial relief to Iran in exchange for Iranian nuclear program concessions, giving the administration the flexibility to reciprocate confidence building measures without threatening the delicate sanctions regime widely credited for bringing Tehran to the bargaining table....

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Iran executes more people annually than any country except for China. Since the election of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani Iran has maintained a pace of executions set to match last year’s total of roughly 500. A recent column in the Washington Post noted that while Rouhani was at the United...

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A major Israeli Air Force exercise continued into its second week, refocusing attention on what the Washington Post last week called “an apparent message to Iran” that the Jewish state – which has committed to preventing the Islamic republic from succeeding in what is widely seen as a drive to...

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Turkish officials, including the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, deliberately burned “up to 10 Iranians who had been meeting inside Turkey with their [Israeli] Mossad case officers” by alerting Iran of their existence, according to an expose published late last night by the...

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For a second day in a row, coverage of nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran emphasized expressions of optimism while noting that Iranian negotiators have not in fact offered anything substantively concrete or new. Officials quoted by Reuters yesterday described “no apparent narrowing of differences” and worried that what...

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Talks which concluded today between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva are being described with optimism in some quarters and pessimism in others, as analysts and policymakers struggled to figure out what exactly the Iranians offered and if the offer would be sufficient to put nuclear weapons beyond the reach...

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In April the Pentagon assessed that Tehran could test an ICBM capable of reaching the United States are early as by 2015. Later in the year a threat report published by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) and the Office of Naval Intelligence concluded that Iran’s space launch...

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The weekend and Monday saw senators, analysts, and journalists raise increasingly pointed concerns over rumors that the West may accept a deal that would leave Iran with either enriched uranium up to 3.5% purity or the right to continue enrichment. Observers fear that any amount of enriched material or enrichment...

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