As world powers spent the past few days finalizing an agreement to lift a UN arms embargo on Iran as part of a nuclear deal, Iranian proxies sparked violent confrontations throughout the Middle East. Forces loyal to Iran-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed 13, including seven women and a child, in bombing raids on a...

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The P5+1 global powers and Iran today announced the conclusion of nearly two years of nuclear negotiations. The talks, which began with the aim of permanently dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, concluded with a deal that will allow Iran to have an unlimited enrichment program in a decade, and will permit...

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The P5+1 nations threw away their leverage in the nuclear negotiations by not treating Iran as a “determined proliferator” and pushing it to comply with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), opting instead to approach negotiations as “a political dispute,” Emily Landau, a leading nonproliferation expert, wrote Saturday in The Times of Israel....

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Iran continues to defy existing sanctions on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs as nuclear negotiations proceed in Vienna. In a report published Friday in The Weekly Standard, Emanuele Ottolenghi and Benjamin Weinthal, fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, cited a German intelligence agency that recently reported on Iran’s...

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After Turkey received a massive influx of refugees last month fleeing Syria’s civil war, the United Nations has now put the total number of refugees from that conflict at more than four million, The New York Times reported Thursday. More than 24,000 people crossed into Turkey to escape fighting in northern Syria...

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In the wake of Tehran’s latest demands to have the United Nations Security Council lift its embargoes on Iran’s arms industry, nuclear negotiators missed their fifth deadline and agreed to extend talks until Friday, Bloomberg Business reported today. After almost two years, diplomats say they’re closer than ever to sealing an...

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Iran is demanding that the United Nations Security Council lift its embargo on the country’s arms industry in the context of the emerging nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations, The Los Angeles Times reported today. “The treatment of Iran by the [United Nations] Security Council has been terrible, to put...

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A United Nations Human Rights Council hearing on last year’s war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas was highlighted by testimony on Monday from three military experts who said that the Council’s recently commissioned report on the war would encourage further terrorism. The three experts were Col. Richard Kemp, former...

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In The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It, Emanuele Ottolenghi explains how the United States and its allies wasted the leverage they had gained through years of building international sanctions against Iran, and how that will undermine the effectiveness of the emerging nuclear deal. The...

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Update, July 1: Following the publication of the piece below rebutting JTA reporter Ron Kampeas’ inaccurate claims, JTA substantively revised its account concerning the timing of Israel’s aid operation in Haiti. After it became clear that a needs assessment team led by Ambassador Amos Radian was in place in Haiti on...

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