On Monday, Tehran unveiled its Talash-3 surface-to-air missile, which Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili says will be able to “shoot down any hostile target,” even at high altitudes. Iran claims it recently test-fired the Talash-3 with success. The Talash systems can be fired to low, medium,...

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Emily Landau, a senior research fellow at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, warns in a paper published Wednesday that the P5+1, the six countries negotiation with Iran, risk “a bad nuclear deal” by failing to deal with two crucial issues. While most of the public discussion about the negotiations has focused...

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Administration officials testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday were met with what The New York Times described as “a wall of skepticism” from lawmakers pushing for a greater role in negotiations between Tehran and the P5+1 global powers. Lawmakers have for months backed increased economic sanctions on Tehran, and have this...

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In the wake of the agreement to extend the P5+1’s nuclear talks with Iran for four months, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) published a paper (.pdf) Tuesday outlining five principles for ensuring a successful deal: 1. Sufficient response time in case of violations. 2. A nuclear program meeting...

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The Wall Street Journal on Monday conveyed reports that Tehran has for the past six months exported a record amount of crude oil to China, which the outlet noted comes “amid a loosening of U.S. sanctions” as Iran negotiates with the P5+1 powers – including Beijing – over its nuclear...

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The Wall Street Journal on Friday afternoon announced that Iran and the P5+1 global powers had reached an agreement to extend through late November talks over Tehran’s nuclear program. The interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) was set to expire July 20, amid increasing speculation that talks would be extended as a...

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Journalists on Wednesday pressed White House and State Department spokespeople on a set of commitments – made months ago to lawmakers and reporters – in which top administration officials defended nuclear negotiations with Iran by insisting that if talks failed they would cooperate with Congress in imposing new sanctions on...

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Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday told reporters in Vienna that “very real gaps” remain between Iran and the P5+1 global powers as the parties work to reach an agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program ahead of the July 20 expiry of the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA): Kerry,...

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The Daily Beast on Monday assessed that the easing of sanctions on Tehran, as reported in a newly released study by Roubini Global Economics and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), has allowed the Iranian economy to begin to recover, “undercutting Western leverage” ahead of the July 20 deadline...

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing the Obama administration to work more closely with Congress as the P5+1 powers near the July 20 deadline to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran that would force the Islamic republic to put its atomic program beyond use for weaponization. In a letter...

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