The Daily Beast assessed yesterday that the alliance between the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was “straining after a rare outburst from the UAE,” which Abu Dhabi unleashed after an annual State Department human rights report criticized the Gulf nation for blocking the formation of a political party that the...

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A White House senior official late last Friday flat-out denied recent boasts made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, given to Turkish TV in a live interview, that had Erdogan instructing President Barack Obama to take “the necessary stance” against a U.S.-based foe of the Turkish political leader and Obama...

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Top Iraqi officials on Wednesday deepened their efforts to stem the damage from a recently published Reuters report revealing that Baghdad had inked a weapons deal with Iran worth $195 million, breaking a U.N.-imposed arms embargo on the Islamic republic and fueling concerns that the Obama administration had allowed Iraq to slip into the...

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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi over the weekend catalogued the topics that Iran expects to negotiate over when comprehensive nuclear negotiations renew, pointedly excluding any mention of Iran’s ballistic missile program while including uranium enrichment and plutonium production. Araqchi who had attended a Commission session on Sunday said Iran declared during...

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The Daily Beast on Thursday conveyed the contents of a letter signed by what the outlet described as “more than 80 top foreign policy figures from across the political spectrum,” calling on President Barack Obama to confront Turkey over Ankara’s ongoing crackdown against civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law....

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Iranian officials and media outlets on Thursday continued to press their recent and repeated position that the scope of comprehensive nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 global powers will be limited to topics addressed in the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), risking a scenario in which the Obama administration may...

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The first day of coverage regarding comprehensive talks between Iran and the P5+1 global powers revolved around pessimism from all sides regarding the prospect that talks would succeed, amid declarations by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that negotiations would “not lead anywhere” and statements by U.S. officials that the initial six-month negotiation period...

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The Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday morning conveyed statements from White House officials brushing off concerns regarding a January spike in Iran’s oil exports, which was widely read against the backdrop of a stabilization in Iran’s economy, prompting Foreign Policy to say that it had “raised concerns” over the veracity of White House statements...

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The State Department last week put itself on the defensive over the Obama administration’s policy toward Egypt’s army-backed government – which has ranged from a controversial aid freeze last October to a pointed diplomatic snub as recently as two weeks ago – with State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf being pressed for the second day in a row to...

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The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake and Josh Rogin reported last week that the Obama administration’s diplomacy toward Iran was risking a cascade of new nuclear proliferators across the Middle East, with both Western and Israeli intelligence agencies telling the outlet that Saudi Arabia is developing uranium enrichment infrastructure that has long been ‘considered...

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