Rep. Ed Royce (R – Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution to disapprove of the nuclear deal reached between the P5+1 nations and Iran, Reuters reported Tuesday. Republican U.S. Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, on Tuesday introduced...

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Even if Iran follows the procedures laid out in the recent nuclear deal, it can still “break out” to nuclear weapons capability in as little as six to seven months, not a year as the Obama administration claims, David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, testified...

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Three leading members of the House of Representatives – Reps. Steve Israel (D – N.Y.), Nita Lowey (D – N.Y.), and Ted Deutch (D – Fla.) – today became the first three Democratic Jewish members of Congress to go on record opposing the nuclear deal with Iran. Rep. Israel, the chair...

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The sanctions regime imposed on Iran for its illicit nuclear program has been destroyed and cannot easily be re-instituted, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Monday. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported: “The structure of the sanctions that the US had built based on the UN Security Council’s...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out the case against the nuclear deal with Iran in a presentation streamed over the internet today. The video is embedded below. After saying that “the deal doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb, it paves it,” Netanyahu discussed the “three fatal flaws” of the deal....

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The nuclear deal with Iran must not allow Iranian perpetrators of terror to escape justice, former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau wrote in a commentary for Reuters today. Put simply: Iran sponsors terrorism. I am convinced I could prove that proposition in a court of law, and indeed some Americans...

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A new poll released today shows that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to the pending nuclear deal with Iran. 57 percent of Americans surveyed in a Qunnipiac University poll said that they disapprove of the deal, more than twice as many as the 28 percent in favor. The vast majority of respondents said...

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Rep. Kathleen Rice (D – N.Y.) announced today that she will vote against the nuclear deal with Iran. She is the fourth Democratic representative to announce her opposition to the deal. She explained her reasoning in an op-ed in the 5 Towns Jewish Times. It’s inarguable that Iran’s top policy priority is to obtain a...

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President Barack Obama has a “blind spot” towards anti-Semitism that is evident in his administration’s outreach to Iran, Ruth Wisse, a scholar of Yiddish and comparative literature, wrote in an op-ed (Google link) published Friday in The Wall Street Journal. Yet when it comes to the world’s most widespread and ideologically driven...

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The Obama administration sees the recently concluded nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran as the first step towards greater cooperation between the United States and the Islamic Republic, The New York Times reported Saturday. What the president and his aides do not talk about these days — for...

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