Iranian dissidents fear that the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 powers and Tehran will free the regime to treat them more harshly, Saeed Ghasseminejad, a former Iranian political prisoner who is currently an associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an op-ed published yesterday in the...

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A group of 53 Iranian dissidents wrote a letter, published Friday by The Daily Beast, outlining their opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran and arguing that the agreement’s failure to hold Tehran accountable for its human rights abuses, both domestic and international, will only empower the Islamic regime and...

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Sen. Jeff Flake (R – Ariz.) will vote against the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), despite being lobbied “heavily” by President Obama and his administration, Politico reported Saturday. It doesn’t look like President Barack Obama will get to claim “bipartisan support” for...

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Jonathan Greenblatt, the newly appointed national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a former special assistant to President Barack Obama, called on Congress to vote against the nuclear deal with Iran in a column for the Huffington Post Thursday. Greenblatt stated that the nuclear deal not only gives Iran”a legal and legitimate pathway...

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Gen. Charles Krulak, the former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is not “in the best interests of the United States of America, the...

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Despite the new agreement reached between the P5+1 and Iran, the Islamic Republic could still acquire nuclear weapons capability through North Korea, according to analysts. Ilan Berman, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, warned yesterday, in an article published in the National Interest, that despite the administration’s assurances that all...

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The agreement over Iran’s nuclear program is “a deal with the devil” that should be rejected by Congress, Rabbi Richard Block,  immediate past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, said in an op-ed today in The Hill. Under prior legislation, most sanctions on Iran were to sunset only when the president certified to Congress that...

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Rep. Alcee Hastings (D – Fla.) is the latest senior Democratic member of Congress to announce his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran, the Palm Beach Post reported today. Hastings, a liberal Democrat who usually supports Obama, joins another Palm Beach County delegation member who’s normally a pro-Obama vote...

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In a direct challenge to the United Nations Security Council resolution implementing the nuclear deal with Iran, the country’s military has announced plans to conduct ballistic missile exercises later this year, the semi-official Fars news agency reported today. Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan stated that war games, including...

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There is significant legal precedent for Congress voting against the nuclear deal with Iran and initiating a renegotiation of the agreement, Orde Kittrie, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the State Department’s former lead attorney for nuclear affairs, wrote in an op-ed (Google link) today in The...

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