Rep. Dan Kildee (D – Mich.) introduced a bipartisan Congressional resolution Thursday calling on Iran to “release all detained Americans immediately,” The New York Times reported. Characterizing the resolution as the product of legislative anger at Iran, the Times reported: The latest evidence of indignation was seen on Thursday when...

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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that the Arab world would have to be “aggressive” as it counters Iran in “Yemen and beyond,” Al Arabiya reported Monday. In his comments to journalists in Washington, Hariri sketched out an ambitious plan to target Syria, which he called “the joint” of Iran’s influence in...

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A map of the current position of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as Iranian anti-ISIS forces, shows that while Iran will continue fighting ISIS, it has no interest in defeating the terror organization. The map was created by security researcher Michael Pregent, who was interviewed yesterday by...

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The concessions built into the deal currently taking shape between the P5+1 and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland may be so extensive as to undermine the possibility of long-term monitoring, and fail to stretch Iran’s breakout time to a year, according to former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy director Olli Heinonen....

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An Iranian journalist who served as a media advisor to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani defected to the West over the weekend, protesting that he could “only write what he was told.” Reuters reported that Amir Hossein Motaghi was on the team that helped Rouhani win the 2013 presidential elections. “My conscience would...

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The P5+1 global powers and Iran will issue a “general” statement to close the latest round of nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, according to an Associated Press (AP) report today. According to the AP, the statement would “[allow] the sides to claim enough progress has been made thus far to merit...

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In an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday, David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, disputed the idea that the only alternative of the deal being negotiated with Iran was a war. The relevant segment of the interview is embedded below. When Mitchell asked...

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Top analysts, including a former top official at the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, are calling into question basic assumptions about the wisdom of the deal currently being hammered out in Lausanne, Switzerland between the P5+1 global powers and Iran. At stake is whether the administration’s publicly-expressed goal for the talks—that...

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Placing trust in Iran to abide by the nuclear deal being negotiated would be “short-sighted and wrong,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The New Jersey Star Ledger. The Israel Project published The Tower. Citing Ayatollah Ali...

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A range of media outlets blasted the Obama administration on Thursday and Friday over the White House’s Middle East policy in the broadest sense, arguing that the increasingly chaotic region is in a downward spiral due, in part, to missteps by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team. The various conflicts engulfing...

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