More than 60% of Americans distrust Iran, and a plurality believes that the Islamic Republic got the better part of the nuclear deal with the West, a poll (.pdf) released today by Monmouth University showed. Four-in-ten (41%) say Iran got more of what it wanted from this deal, while just 14% feel the U.S. came...

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A letter written by 29 prominent American scientists in support of the recent nuclear deal with Iran fails to address political aspects of the deal or ambiguities in the wording of the deal, Emily Landau, a leading nuclear nonproliferation expert, wrote in an analysis today in The Times of Israel....

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Among the individuals who will be freed from international sanctions under the terms of the nuclear deal between Iran and the West is Anis Naccache, a former lieutenant of of legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal and attempted assassin of Shahpour Bakhtiar, Iran’s last Shah-era prime minister. Bakhtiar’s nephew, Hooman Bakhtiar, criticized this...

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The nuclear deal with Iran will empower a regime that has killed an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 gays and lesbians since 1979 and enable the increased persecution of sexual minorities in the Islamic Republic, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published...

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The State Department issued an advisory warning Americans not to visit Iran due to the threat of detention and imprisonment on false charges, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “This deal over Iran’s nuclear program does not alter the United States’s assessment of the risks of travel to Iran for...

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Representative Brad Sherman (D – Calif.), the second highest ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that he will vote against the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), The Hill reported Friday. “A strong Congressional vote against the Agreement is the...

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Top Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) announced yesterday evening their opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Schumer is one of the senior Democrats in the Senate and is slated to become...

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American intelligence has detected Iran attempting to sanitize Parchin, the military site where the Islamic Republic is suspected of carrying out tests on detonators that could be used to trigger nuclear explosions, Josh Rogin and Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported on Wednesday. The U.S. intelligence community has informed Congress...

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Senators from both parties left a closed-door meeting today with the UN’s nuclear agency today upset by the agency’s lack of clarity, raising more questions than they had going in, The Hill reported today. Multiple Senate lawmakers emerged fuming from a nearly two-hour closed-door briefing with the globe’s top nuclear watchdog...

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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a “bad agreement” that will leave Israel and the rest of the world dealing with its “dangerous” consequences, Israel’s former national security advisor, Gen. Yaacov Amidror, wrote in an analysis published Wednesday by the Begin and Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. The agreement...

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