Contradicting allegations made by Iran, a report today quoting the sister of Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour claims that he was killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) because he refused to help the Iranian regime build a nuclear bomb. The Times of Israel reported on the charge made by Mahboobeh Hosseinpour: Mahboobeh said...

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In a speech today before the United Nations General Assembly (embedded below), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified the greatest threat to the world as “militant Islam” and argued that the threat Israel faces from Hamas is the same that the rest of the region and the world faces from...

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On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General assembly focusing on the Iranian threat, The Wall Street Journal described Washington as failing to maintain its position regarding Tehran’s nuclear program. An in-house opinion piece (via Google) from the WSJ suggested “Tehran holds firm while the...

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An unsigned editorial in The New York Times Saturday, placed the blame of the lack of a nuclear deal squarely on Iran. The criticism is especially notable as the Times has been a very strong supporter of a nuclear deal with Iran. The editors of Times pull no punches in...

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Based on “highly reliable information,” Israel’s Intelligence Minister, Yuval Steinitz charged today that Iran used its Parchin military base to test detonators for nuclear weapons. Reuters reports: A statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, issued a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – the architect of Tehran’s diplomacy with the...

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According to a report Saturday in the Los Angeles Times, under some conditions the latest reported P5+1 “face-saving” offer to Iran to unplug but not dismantle their centrifuges could be “restored in days.” Experts said the idea of disconnecting centrifuges, in various forms, has been present in Western talks with...

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The New York Times revealed this weekend that the United States was “open” to an agreement with Iran that would allow the Islamic Republic to unplug the “plumbing” on its uranium enrichment infrastructure in exchange for wide-ranging sanctions relief, functionally reversing what had long been the West’s insistence that the...

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In an interview on Friday with the Foreign Policy Association, Foundation for Defense of Democracies executive director Mark Dubowitz explained that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the hardliners of the regime have identical goals, with both seeking “the achievement of nuclear weapons capacity” for Iran. In response to a question...

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Western powers on Thursday criticized Iran for its ongoing refusal to provide the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) with the cooperation that the agency requires to fully investigate the so-called “possible military dimensions” (PMDs) of Tehran’s atomic program, statements that the BBC conveyed alongside an assessment from officials that ‘a breakthrough in...

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On Thursday, Western powers demanded Iranian cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) investigation into Iran’s military nuclear research. Reuters reports: Western powers told Iran on Thursday it must step up cooperation with a U.N. watchdog’s investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by the country if it wants to get a...

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