Pro-Iran groups – including one that has been blasted by members of Congress for peddling “propaganda put out by the Iranian regime” – are scrambling to position themselves, as bipartisan Congressional letters from both the House of Representatives and the Senate regarding negotiations with Iran gain traction. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC)...

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Bipartisan House and Senate letters sent to President Barack Obama in recent days are being read as a reassertion of Congressional prerogatives in the context of negotiations with Iran, after weeks in which the White House was widely perceived to have largely marginalized skeptics on the Hill via among other...

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The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake and Josh Rogin reported last week that the Obama administration’s diplomacy toward Iran was risking a cascade of new nuclear proliferators across the Middle East, with both Western and Israeli intelligence agencies telling the outlet that Saudi Arabia is developing uranium enrichment infrastructure that has long been ‘considered...

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The Israel Project (TIP) made available today a range of resources highlighting the accomplishments – and, as importantly, the ongoing legacy – of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The Tower’s own obituary is here, and the Tower Magazine’s more in-depth look at the Israeli leader’s life is here. Josh...

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Analysts continue to debate the details of the failed deal proposed last weekend between the international community and Iran, discussing both the substantive concerns of skeptics and the political consequences of what was very early on described by critics as over-eagerness by the Obama administration to cut a deal at...

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Israel’s Defense Ministry confirmed this morning that Jerusalem had carried out a successful anti-missile exercise over the Mediterranean. The test – which came amid renewed, destabilizing threats of attack from the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria – was reportedly conducted as a joint exercise with the United States. The missiles...

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Despite the risks and its own disappointment, Israel must explore all possibilities for exploring peace with the Palestinians, Tzipi Livni, Israel’s justice minister and envoy to the peace process, told an audience Tuesday in Jerusalem. Speaking at a forum hosted by The Israel Project, Livni emphasized that Western pressure was...

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