Iranian Jews who immigrated to Great Neck, New York expressed frustration with the world’s naivete in agreeing to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, The Times of Israel reported today. The Times conducted a series of interviews with members of the community in the run-up to the Congressional vote...

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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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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 nuclear deal with Iran will lift international sanctions on Gen. Qassen Suleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force, Iran’s elite foreign special forces division. This decision is a “shameful betrayal” of the “the American families of Suleimani’s casualties, and … those of us who lost friends and comrades” to Suleimani, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael...

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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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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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The desperation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could prompt him to increase the regime’s use of chemical weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) yesterday, citing sources in the American government. Last year, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad let international inspectors oversee the removal of what President Barack Obama called the regime’s...

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Human rights activists have added a new dimension of coverage to the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna between the P5+1 global powers and Iran, despite declarations by top American officials that they would prefer not to let human rights issues interfere with sealing a nuclear deal. The families of Americans jailed in...

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In the wake of admissions that the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran will pass the June 30 deadline, the Associated Press (AP) published an analysis today that explored a number of possibilities world powers could pursue should the talks fail. The analysis judges that a military response is unlikely, but...

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The windfall of sanctions relief that Iran will be granted as a result of the emerging nuclear deal will allow the Islamic Republic “to project its power into corners of the Middle East in ways that were never possible before,” Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,...

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