Rather than preventing war, the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will stoke Tehran’s regional ambitions and increase the likelihood of a major regional conflict, Joshua Muravchik, a distinguished fellow at the World Affairs Institute, wrote yesterday in an analysis for The Weekly Standard....

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Rep. Donald Norcross (D – N.J.) announced that he will vote against the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and emphasized that “Iran must never be allowed to become a nuclear threat to the world,” the Burlington County Times reported yesterday. Norcross and Rep. Tom...

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Russia will complete a deal, as early as next week, to sell the sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Iran despite longstanding American objections, Fox News reported today. Despite a ban on arms shipments to Iran under international sanctions, Russia appears willing to proceed with the sale of advanced S-300 surface-to-air missiles to...

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In a departure from the usual procedure, Iran will be allowed to use its own “experts and equipment” to provide international inspectors with environmental samples from the military base and suspected nuclear site Parchin, the Associated Press (AP) reported today, citing a classified draft of a side agreement between Iran...

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Both Democratic and Republican members of Congress oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as its failure to permanently restrict Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb is a “bipartisan concern,” Sen. Steve Daines (R – Mont.) argued in an op-ed published in...

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Sen. Robert Menendez (D – N.J.), a top Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today, saying the agreement “failed to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state at a time of its choosing,” The Washington Post reports. Menendez...

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Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and one of its chief nuclear negotiators, said that no nuclear inspectors will be allowed to enter the Islamic Republic unless previously approved by its intelligence agency, the Washington Free Beacon reported yesterday. “Any individual, out of IAEA’s Inspection group, who is not approved...

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Iranian officials warned Yukiya Amano, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that he would lose their trust in the event that he discloses the content of the Tehran regimes’ secret agreements with the international nuclear watchdog, according to a report Monday in Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. Behrouz Kamalvandi,...

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Despite proclamations that the nuclear deal with the P5+1 powers represents “a turning point for Iran,” Hamid Yazdan Panah, a lawyer and human rights activist, wrote that “the facts on the ground” show an increased rate of executions in the Islamic Republic, in a commentary published by Reuters today. Since...

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A congressional rejection of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would not lead to war or diplomatic isolation of the United States, as the Obama administration has warned, just as similar warnings proved incorrect about stronger sanctions, former Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in an op-ed published Friday in...

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