America’s interpretation of the Iran nuclear deal is inaccurate, the speaker of the Iranian parliament told NPR in an interview today. Ali Larijani says the agreement is good enough. He adds that [the] United States’ reading of that deal, particularly when it comes to sanctions, is not good at all. And he’s hoping that the...
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D -W.Va.) announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today, becoming the 58th senator and fourth Democrat to do so. West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported: “Whenever I am able, I will choose diplomacy over war because the stakes are so high for West Virginia, which has...
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Despite its stated goal of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear threat, the deal will allow it to become a “threshold nuclear state” by the time it expires, Gen. (ret.) James Conway, the former commandant of the of Marine Corps, and Gen. (ret.) Charles Wald, former deputy commander of United States...
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The agreement to inspect Iran’s nuclear research site at Parchin is faulty and hurts the credibility of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, its former deputy director general said today. Olli Heinonen, the former number two official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), expressed doubts that the inspections plan is strong enough in an...
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Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran in an op-ed published today in The Washington Post. Cardin is also a co-sponsor of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which mandated legislative oversight of any deal....
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The president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the controversial group promoting closer ties with Iran, admitted in an email to supporters Wednesday that he wants to prevent a Congressional vote on the nuclear deal with Iran from occurring. An alert written by NIAC founder and president Trita Parsi celebrated securing the 34th Democratic Senate...
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Hundreds of Floridians protested the nuclear deal with Iran outside a community center where Vice President Joe Biden arrived to deliver a speech in favor of the agreement, CBS Miami reported today. Carrying signs and waving banners, protestors set up camp near the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie...
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A task force led by two retired four-star generals has concluded that the nuclear deal with Iran will help the Islamic Republic “become more powerful and expand its influence and destabilizing activities.” The assessment (.pdf), led by James Conway, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, and Charles Wald, the former...
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A survey found that two thirds of government personnel in the national security sector, including the Department of Defense and military, do not believe that the nuclear agreement with Iran is good for American interests, Defense One reported yesterday. Significantly, 58% of those surveyed serve at a managerial level or...
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There has been continued talk of a possible Democratic filibuster of the vote on the Iran deal as the congressional recess comes to an end. A filibuster would go against the spirit of the Corkin-Cardin bill, formally known as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which passed the Senate...
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