Unfreezing billions of dollars worth of Iranian assets, a likely consequence of the nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic, will have the effect of exacerbating Iran’s “systematic, 35-year campaign of regional meddling, destabilization, and extension of … influence” that threatens the Middle East, David Rothkopf, editor of Foreign Policy, argued Thursday. How...

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A senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, doubled down on one of Iran’s demands included in a “fact sheet” published by Iran’s parliament according to a report Wednesday in the semi-official Fars News Agency. Ali Akbar Velayati, Khamenei’s top adviser for international affairs said that the lifting of sanctions...

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Iran’s parliament released its own “factsheet” incorporating the demands added by Ayatollah Khamenei in response to the Lausanne nuclear “framework” statement. The full April 9 Khamenei speech slamming the US as a ‘cheater and a liar’ has been translated by MEMRI. Here are excerpts [emphasis added]: All the problems [will...

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Speaking at a ceremony commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a speech delivered Wednesday evening at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum that the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran showed that the West had not learned the lessons of the Holocaust, Ynet reported: The Israeli prime minister...

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A day after a Senate committee unanimously approved a bill mandating congressional review of any nuclear deal with Iran before sanctions can be lifted, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a crowd that “if there is no end to sanctions, there will not be an agreement,” Reuters reported today. “If there is no end...

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President Barack Obama’s decision to offer support for the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which mandates Congressional oversight of any Iranian nuclear deal and was passed unanimously by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, was prompted by the likelihood that the president’s veto of the bill would be overridden, The Times of...

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A bill mandating Congressional oversight of any Iran nuclear deal agreed to by the administration passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously today after the top senators on the committee agreed to a compromise on the bill’s language. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the committee, said that the legislation, which...

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In a reversal of the administration’s longstanding objections to congressional oversight of an emerging deal over Iran’s nuclear program, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today that President Barack Obama would sign a compromise Senate bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier today. Defense News reports:...

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The Iran Task Force, a “group of former government officials and nuclear, legal, and sanctions experts” issued a statement today supporting a “decisive” role for Congress in affirming any nuclear deal with Iran agreed to by the White House. We support bipartisan efforts to give Congress a decisive role in...

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The framework announced by Iran and the global P5+1 powers at Lausanne last week contains significant weaknesses that leading scientists warned over the weekend will be ignored “at the peril of regional security and peace,” marking the latest in what has become a string of warnings from top nuclear experts...

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