The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday that would prohibit the United States from buying Iranian “heavy water,” which can be used to produce weaponizable nuclear material. The “No 2H2O from Iran Act” passed 249-176 with both Republican and Democratic support. The U.S. government confirmed Monday that it paid Iran $8.6...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that his country is capable of fully restoring its nuclear program if the nuclear deal falls apart. If the global negotiating powers refuse to fulfill their commitments, Iran “will be completely prepared, and, in terms of nuclear capabilities, we are at such a level so as...

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American and Iranian officials confirmed Monday that the Obama administration undertook an $8.6 million purchase of nuclear materials from Iran, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The taxpayer-funded deal sought to prevent Iran from violating the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last summer. “I can confirm reports that the DOE...

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Iran engaged in secret efforts last year to procure nuclear-related materials that spanned at least half of Germany’s states and involved attempts to advance the Islamic Republic’s chemical and biological weapons capabilities, according to newly-released German intelligence documents examined by the Jerusalem Post. Iranian operatives targeted German manufacturers whose products could...

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One year after it signed the nuclear deal, Iran is still attempting to secretly procure illicit nuclear technology and equipment, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency revealed last week. In its 317-page annual report, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, known by its German acronym BfV, said that Iran is engaging...

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Iran must declare all of its past and current nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order for the agency to credibly conclude that the country’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, former IAEA deputy director general Olli Heinonen wrote in a research paper for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on...

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The Obama administration is encouraging companies to do business with Iran in order to make last year’s nuclear deal irreversible, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. Administration officials told the Journal that they were encouraging businesses to make agreements with Iran in order to make it harder for future administrations to unravel the...

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The Obama administration’s push for more companies to do business with Iran is inappropriate and concerning, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Thursday. “It is Iran’s challenge to demonstrate that their economy is transparent enough, legitimate enough, secure enough, to attract foreign investment. I don’t think it’s our job to...

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The $25 billion aircraft deal that Boeing recently struck with Iran could be jeopardized by Tehran’s continued support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday. Boeing’s jets will be sold to the state-owned Iran Air, which was sanctioned by the Treasury Department in 2011 partially due to its transport of “potentially dangerous...

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A veteran U.S. diplomat who pushed for the nuclear deal with Iran, which allowed Boeing to sell $25 billion worth of planes to state-owned Iran Air, did not disclose that he was paid by Boeing during the time he advocated for the agreement, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday. Thomas Pickering, a former ambassador...

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