In his pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama could be “headed down the wrong path,” possibly allowing Iran “to further threaten Middle Eastern stability, jeopardize American interests, or destroy our strongest ally,” Congresswoman Kristi Noem wrote Sunday in an op-ed published in the Black Hills Pioneer....

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Philip Hammond and Laurent Fabius, respectively the top diplomats of Britain and France, called for Iran to submit to verification of its nuclear program to ensure that it is peaceful, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. “Britain wants a robust and verifiable deal with Iran that ensures that its nuclear programme in...

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The Obama administration’s response to the new book by former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren is part of an opportunistic effort “to portray itself as a loyal friend to Israel,” Jonathan Tobin wrote Thursday in Commentary. The motives for these denunciations are obvious. The president knows that the truth about his hostility...

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The U.S. government’s internal monitoring organization has determined that the State Department is three years late in applying certain sanctions to Iran, Al-Monitor reported Wednesday. The report raises questions over whether the State Department is intentionally delaying sanctions on Iran as negotiations over its nuclear program continue. The report (.pdf), issued by the Government Accountability...

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President Barack Obama’s “paternalistic” view towards Israel negatively impacted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Ben Cohen, Senior Editor of The Tower, wrote Thursday in a review of former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren’s new book Ally. In his book, Oren wrote that “the Israel [Obama] cared about was also the...

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Secretary of State John Kerry’s remark earlier this week that “We’re not fixated on Iran specifically accounting for what they did at one point in time or another” has caused concern among lawmakers that the White House has stepped back from its previous demand that Iran must come clean about its past...

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The emerging nuclear deal with Iran will not “end Iran’s ability and motivation to have a nuclear-weapons option” wrote Aaron David Miller, a State Department official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, in an analysis published today in Time. After noting that the likely result of the deal is the emergence of “a...

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AIPAC issued a statement calling Secretary of State John Kerry’s comments, apparently retreating from a demand that Iran come clean about all of its past nuclear work, “disturbing,” The Jerusalem Post reported today. AIPAC’s statement was one of concern that, after sealing a framework to a nuclear deal with Iran, the US was...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey for increased aid to the beleaguered Druze community in Syria during Dempsey’s visit to Israel last week, the Times of Israel reported Sunday. The request was lodged with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman during the...

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The United States and the other Western nations involved in the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran are prepared to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program despite Iran’s refusal to fully come clean about all of its past nuclear research, the Associated Press reported today. After a November 2013 interim...

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