Eleven Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.), sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of State John Kerry expressing their concern over Iran’s recent test launch of a ballistic missile. We are writing to express our profound concern about Iran’s...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has conditioned acceptance of the nuclear deal on Iran being exempted from consequences of its ongoing support for international terrorism, human rights abuses, and nuclear cheating, CNN reported today. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s official website carries a letter from the Supreme Leader to Iranian President...

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October 19 was “adoption day,” one of the markers of the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers in July. It is the date by which Iran says it will voluntary adopt measures governing inspections of its nuclear sites, while the United States and Europe will begin the process of removing nuclear...

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Iranian state television showed images of underground missiles bases on Wednesday, and featured military leaders saying that they were ready to launch on the order of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “if enemies make a mistake.” Agence France-Presse reported more: Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace...

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The government of Iran spent months brushing off inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency tasked with investigating Iran’s past nuclear work, and only began fully cooperating with them this week, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. Iran’s behavior changed when “the IAEA and some Western governments directly warned Tehran that it must increase...

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Iran’s test-firing of ballistic missiles on Sunday likely violated United Nations Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said today. Politico reported more: “If the facts are as we believe them to be, it would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions,” Samantha Power said, speaking at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit...

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Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile in violation of an existing United Nations Security Council resolution, Reuters reported Sunday. Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of a United Nations ban, signaling an apparent advance in Iranian attempts to improve the accuracy of its missile...

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Some U.S. government officials have privately acknowledged that a key provision of the nuclear deal with Iran violates existing federal law, James Rosen of Fox News reported today. At issue is a passage tucked away in ancillary paperwork attached to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, as the...

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As much as the Obama administration and its supporters—including some members of the so-called “arms control community”—want to sell the Iran deal as a foreign policy victory and nonproliferation success story, it is nothing of the sort. Not even according to many who reluctantly lent their support to the deal...

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The announcement earlier this week that Iran had self-inspected its suspected nuclear research site at the Parchin military base, without inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) present, undermined the agency’s ability to address concerns about past and possibly current Iranian nuclear weapons work, former international weapons inspectors asserted...

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