Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – Md.), the Democratic whip of the House of Representatives, expressed disappointment with the Obama administration for indefinitely delaying punitive sanctions on Iran over its illicit ballistic missile program, arguing that failure to act will erode the United States’ ability to enforce the nuclear deal with...

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Only a day after floating the possibility that the White House would impose new sanctions on Iran due to its illegal ballistic missile tests, the Obama administration has now decided to delay its decision to an undetermined future date after Iran issued repeated threats, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google...

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Facing strong bipartisan Congressional pressure, the Obama administration is preparing to impose new sanctions on Iran for its illicit ballistic missile program, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. But one expert is characterizing the new sanctions as being the “bare minimum” the administration could do under the circumstances. The new...

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After the United States passed a law tightening its visa waiver program, Iran said that doing so was a violation of the nuclear deal signed by global powers in July, and threatened to file a complaint to the Joint Commission, a new international body that governs disputes between the signatory...

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The Obama administration’s lack of response to continued Iranian human rights abuses and violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions in the wake of the nuclear deal has emboldened Tehran’s illicit behavior, The Washington Post charged Monday in a staff editorial. While Iran rushed to fulfill those conditions of the nuclear agreement...

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Secretary of State John Kerry wrote a letter to his Iranian counterpart on Saturday to assure him that in order to avoid Iranian claims that the U.S is violating the nuclear deal, the White House will largely ignore recent legislation tightening visa requirements, sparking concerns that the Obama Administration is undermining Congressional authority to...

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The recent vote to close the International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s illicit nuclear work prompted Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Islamic Republic’s chief nuclear negotiator and foreign minister, to boast that the “fabricated problem” of Iran’s military nuclear program had come to an end. “Despite its pitfalls,” Zarif said, “the...

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The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted unanimously to close the watchdog group’s investigation into Iran’s past nuclear research on Tuesday, the same day it was revealed that the United Nations Council of Experts found Iran to be in violation of a Security Council resolution, the...

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In the wake of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency’s report confirming that Iran was covertly working to develop a nuclear bomb as late as 2009, the U.S. and its partners in the nuclear deal must keep sanctions in place until the regime “[fills] in the remaining blanks on its weapons...

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Less than a week after the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that Iran covertly operated an illicit nuclear weapons program as late as 2009, a senior Iranian official warned that reopening the investigation into the regime’s past nuclear activities would be equivalent to “welshing” on the nuclear deal, Iran’s Mehr...

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