Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) warned that the likely outcome of the current nuclear negotiations with Iran is war. He made the remarks in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that was published today. When asked by Goldberg whether engaging and possibly empowering the moderates in Iran’s regime through negotiations...

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In a step that will weaken United Nations-mandated sanctions that were enacted in response to Iran’s illicit nuclear program, the Russian government has lifted a 2010 ban on shipping an advanced air-defense system to Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. The lifting of the ban also raised fears that Iran...

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On Thursday, writing in Foreign Policy magazine, retired U.S. Navy admiral James Stavridis argued that the Arab League’s multinational response force, announced to address growing regional instability, will be established as a Sunni “army” to counter the rising power of Shiite Iran. The Arab League’s response force, first reported in late...

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Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, leaders of Israel’s main opposition party, the Zionist Union, released a position paper calling the understandings reached earlier this month with Iran over its nuclear program “problematic,” and said that they present “real potential dangers for the long term,” The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. In addition, the...

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Shortly after the understanding was signed between Iran and the P5+1 countries over the country’s illicit nuclear program, a U.S. State Department fact sheet—since disputed by Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif—stated that “U.S. and E.U. nuclear-related sanctions will be suspended after the [International Atomic Energy Agency] has verified that Iran has taken...

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said that the United States has the capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear program “over a fraction of one night” in an interview Wednesday on CNBC. The interview is embedded below. The U.S. needs to give Iranian leaders a clear choice: Get rid of your...

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Pushing back against claims that the alternative to the current nuclear negotiation framework with Iran is war, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post that the protocols announced last week actually make war more likely. As Israel’s minister of defense, as a former Israel...

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Iran’s Defense Minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, ruled out any international inspection of Iran’s military sites, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported yesterday. “No such agreement has been made; principally speaking, visit to military centers is among our redlines and no such visit will be accepted,” Gen. Dehqan stressed on...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Twitter today to accuse the Obama administration of lying about the parameters of a future nuclear deal. The Times of Israel reported: A framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be secured by the...

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A nuclear deal that frees Iran from sanctions but doesn’t address its destabilizing behavior in the Middle East “risks empowering Iran’s hegemonic efforts,” former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz argued in an op-ed (Google link) published today in The Wall Street Journal. Kissinger and Shultz noted that,...

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