America’s Arab allies are increasingly concerned about the emerging nuclear deal that the West has reportedly prepared with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Friday. The direction of U.S. diplomacy with Tehran has added fuel to fears in some Arab states of a nuclear-arms race in the region,...

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In an interview with David Ignatius of The Washington Post, Israeli minister of intelligence Yuval Steinitz explained the Israeli government’s reservations over the emerging nuclear deal with Iran. One element of Steinitz’ opposition is that the current deal being discussed would not give the West a chance to respond if Iran decided to sneak to...

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A letter circulated by “the most left-leaning” Democratic members of the House of Representatives urging a delay in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress next month garnered the signatures of only 23 of the 188 Democratic representatives. The Associated Press reported: Almost two dozen liberal Democrats on Thursday asked...

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77% of Americans polled see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a critical threat to the United States, The Algemeiner reported yesterday. A significant majority of Americans — some 77% of those polled — see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat”; another 16% see it...

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Iran has not addressed its past nuclear research according a confidential International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document, Reuters reported today. The confidential report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), obtained by Reuters, said Tehran was continuing to withhold full cooperation in two areas of a long-running IAEA investigation that...

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Administration officials have denied reports that it has been withholding information about the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran from their Israeli counterparts, The New York Times reported yesterday. For its part, the Obama administration has been issuing strong denials that it is holding anything back. Alistair C. Baskey, a spokesman...

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The current proposal for the number of centrifuges Iran could keep under a final nuclear deal would not give the West enough to react in case Iran chose to develop a nuclear bomb, according to an analysis written this past Thursday by Dr. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the...

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Iran used an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to send a satellite into space earlier this month, Israeli Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz revealed in an interview yesterday. Steinitz contended that the use of an ICBM to launch the satellite was the means by which Iran could test the efficacy of its missiles. “It’s...

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Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel plans to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress next month, Reuters reported yesterday. An outspoken New Jersey Orthodox rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, said on Thursday he is placing full-page advertisements in two of the leading U.S. newspapers, The New York...

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The Islamic Republic of Iran is motivated by a revolutionary ideology to support global terrorism, and is unlikely to moderate that support even after a successful nuclear deal with the West, according to experts who testified before a House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee hearing yesterday. The experts were Frederick W. Kagan of the...

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