The Iranian nuclear deal will prompt the Gulf states to pursue their own nuclear programs in response, a former member of Israel’s National Security Council predicted at a conference on Tuesday. “The nuclear deal may set a worrisome standard in the region and a cascade of threshold nuclear states,” Yoel Guzansky, now a research...

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) discovery of uranium particles at the Parchin military complex in Iran underscores the need to grant the agency full access to monitor the site, nuclear experts warned in a brief published Monday. The Obama administration recently acknowledged that the presence of uranium, reported by the IAEA in December, was a sign that...

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Obama administration officials concluded that particles of uranium found at Iran’s Parchin military base and revealed in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s final report on the country’s past nuclear activities were likely tied to the regime’s nuclear weapons program, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Sunday. The admission further underscores concerns that the IAEA’s investigation...

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President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications admitted that the administration’s fundamental selling point for the nuclear deal with Iran was false, according to a profile written by David Samuels and published Sunday in The New York Times magazine. Ben Rhodes, described as having a “mind meld” with...

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The United States agreed last month to buy 32 tons of excess “heavy water,” a byproduct of nuclear enrichment, from Iran, which had produced more heavy water than the agreed-upon limits of the nuclear deal it signed with global powers last year. But the fact that Iran kept enriching after it reached its heavy water...

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The United States signed an agreement on Friday in Vienna to buy 32 tons of Iran’s heavy water for $8.6 million in order to prevent Tehran from violating the nuclear deal. For the first few years after signing the deal, which was reached in July, Iran is not allowed to...

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Secretary of State John Kerry failed to address growing bipartisan concerns that the Obama administration will grant Iran access to dollars as part of last year’s nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported Friday. “The United States is not standing in the way and will not stand in the way of...

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Iranians “to a large extent have themselves to blame” for their economic difficulties because of their country’s corrupt financial system and support for terrorism, The New York Times editorial board wrote on Monday. While Iran has largely complied with the nuclear-related aspects of the deal it reached with global powers last year, leading...

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The governor of Iran’s central bank warned that if the United States doesn’t facilitate Iran’s reintegration into the international financial system, the nuclear deal will “[break] up under its own terms,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Valiollah Seif made his remarks in a 90-minute presentation in Washington, which this week...

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President Barack Obama has been “making one concession after another in response to Iran’s post-deal demands” in order to keep last summer’s announced nuclear agreement alive, former Clinton White House official Lawrence J. Haass wrote in an op-ed in the U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday. America’s concessions on ballistic missiles and access...

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