Reuters reported Thursday afternoon that Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Vienna this weekend along with foreign ministers from the P5+1 powers, who have been negotiating with Tehran over the latter’s nuclear program, amid concerns that a deal may not be reached by the time the interim Joint...

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Reuters on Tuesday published remarks by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regarding Tehran’s nuclear program, with Khamenei insisting that Iran has an “absolute need” to build 190,000 centrifuges, ten times the number of centrifuges the Islamic republic already possesses, and far more than what has been proposed by P5+1...

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The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Iran’s economy is making an impressive recovery from the sanctions relief granted as part of the interim deal with the P5+1 nations last November. It begins by noting that the president of Iran’s chamber of commerce, Gholam Hossein Shafei, “greets trade missions from...

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The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that delegations from energy and automobile companies have been become a near-daily presence in Iran since the easing of sanctions under the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA): As talks between Iran and six major powers on limiting its nuclear program enter the...

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Reuters on Tuesday published new figures indicating that Iran has for the eighth straight month violated crude export restrictions set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), with the outlet quoting a range of experts suggesting that the Obama administration has been deliberately looking the other way as Tehran busted...

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As the P5+1 negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program head into the final few weeks before the July 20th deadline, Secretary of State John Kerry wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post Tuesday arguing that Iran’s “public optimism about the potential outcome of these negotiations has not been...

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Foreign Policy’s blog The Cable on Friday published details of a strategy document, co-authored by officials the outlet characterized as carrying “immense political clout” in the debate over Iran, outlining a structure for Congressional sanctions that would take hold in the aftermath of comprehensive nuclear deal between Tehran and the...

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Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, is heading to Washington with a delegation of top Israeli nuclear and defense experts in advance of the July 20 deadline in talks with Iran. Israel fears the Americans will back down from demands that Iran comply with multiple United Nations sanctions. The...

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A leading scholar of the Middle East has proposed that the key to understanding how the middle east affects U.S. interests lies less in Al-Qaeda and its affiliates and more in the expansionist efforts of the Iranian regime. Lee Smith, author of The Strong Horse and a senior editor at The...

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed statements from Iran’s Foreign Ministry blasting the P5+1 global powers for making “excessive demands” in the face of “rational proposals” being put forth by Tehran: “Iran is ready for a resolution and made rational proposals,” the official IRNA news agency quoted foreign minister Mohammad...

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