The new national director of the Anti-Defamation League has said that he is “deeply troubled” by some accusations made against opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran, which he wrote “can foster a hostile climate for the American Jewish community.” Jonathan Greenblatt, who formerly worked in the Obama White House,...

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The billions of dollars in sanctions relief that will flow to Iran in the wake of the nuclear agreement “will fund Iranian imperialism,” Michael Gerson wrote in a column for The Washington Post. Gerson explained Iran’s long-running strategy of deploying “several thousand well-trained, well-led militia members” against the country’s regional rivals, having them “exploit...

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The nuclear deal between Iran and the West provides Iran and its allies with a “historic opportunity” to confront Israel, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a meeting in Beirut Tuesday, according to Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV. The Times of Israel reported: “Zarif said from...

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The approach by advocates of the nuclear deal with Iran has been “disappointing” due to supporters “resorting to intimidation and demonization, while also grossly overstating their case,” former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote in an editorial Monday for Bloomberg News. Last week, President Barack Obama said that it was not a...

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There will be no “snapback” of sanctions on Iran if the Islamic Republic violates the UN’s arms embargo, Secretary of State John Kerry admitted in an interview with Reuters today. “The arms embargo is not tied to snapback,” Kerry said. “It is tied to a separate set of obligations. So they are...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s angry denial of accusations that Iran is sanitizing the Parchin military site to remove evidence of nuclear work is “an assault on the integrity and prospects of the nuclear deal,” David Albright, the founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a leading nonproliferation think tank,...

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In his first public comments since announcing last week that he would vote against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal with Iran is known, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) said that the United States should seek a “better deal” with Iran, The Hill reported yesterday....

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A group of Iraq war veterans have formed a group to oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, Eli Lake and Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View reported yesterday. The group, Veterans Against the Deal, was founded last month as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, and it does not disclose its donors. Its national...

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A Congressional vote to disapprove of the nuclear deal with Iran will not lead to war, Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote in an analysis Monday. First, Iran is unlikely to respond to congressional disapproval by enriching uranium with reckless abandon and thereby validating the skeptics who...

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The nuclear deal with Iran will further enrich the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by freeing the organization through which he built his personal fortune from international sanctions, Jonathan Schanzer, a former Treasury Department official who is now the vice-president of research for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies (FDD), and...

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