The wife and mother of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian were seized by Iranian authorities and held incommunicado for hours before his release, nearly causing U.S. officials to cancel the deal to free Rezaian and four other American hostages held by the Islamic Republic, The New York Times reported Monday. Rezaian...

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The removal of sanctions on Iran, “part of which will lead to a great deal more weaponry, conflict, bloodshed, and death throughout this area,” marks a “dark day” for the Middle East, Avi Issacharoff, the Middle East analyst for The Times of Israel, wrote in an op-ed Sunday. After noting...

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The editors of The Washington Post celebrated Iran’s release of their reporter Jason Rezaian along with three other Americans in exchange for Iranian prisoners, but nonetheless warned in an editorial published Sunday that absent stronger action from the administration, “Iran’s attacks on Americans and vital U.S. interests will surely continue.” The editorial noted that the four...

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Four high-profile Americans who were being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison have been freed, U.S. officials announced on Saturday, although two other U.S. nationals will remain incarcerated in Iran. The Obama administration, meanwhile, has agreed to release seven Iranians currently in American custody and to drop its pursuit of...

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The seizure of two American naval vessels and their crews earlier this week is the latest “hostile act” carried out by Iran against the United States, Lee Smith, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote in The Weekly Standard on Friday. Since the announcement of the nuclear deal, Iran...

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The increasing diplomatic activity between the United States and Iran, and specifically between Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has “unsettled” longtime American allies, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The Obama administration has insisted that the nuclear deal that Iran signed with global...

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A senior Iranian official denied that Iran has deactivated its Arak heavy water reactor, contradicting claims made earlier this week by the semi-official Fars news agency, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Fars report, which said that Iran dismantled the core of its Arak reactor and filled it with cement,...

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JNS.org – The rulers of the Arab Gulf states are, it seems, increasingly attentive to what Israel has to say about the balance of power in the region. As a rising Shi’a Iran faces off against a Sunni coalition led by Saudi Arabia, the core shared interest between Israel’s democracy...

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The Iranian government has been cracking down on individual rights with increasing fervor since the nuclear deal was signed in July, defying the expectations of some deal supporters that the agreement would lead to a more moderate path for the Islamic Republic. The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) more Friday:...

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Rep. Joe Kennedy (D – Mass.) and Rep. Ted Deutch (D – Fla.) introduced a bipartisan bill to quicken the process for imposing sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile program, human rights violations, and support of terrorism, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Describing Democrats as being “frustrated” and “losing...

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