Allowing Iran to collect the environmental samples from suspected nuclear sites that will be submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency for review would make the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action a “dangerous farce,” former CIA intelligence analyst Fred Fleitz wrote Friday in National Review Online. Fleitz’s warning came after...

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A clause in the nuclear deal suggests that Iran may unilaterally withdraw from the agreement and pursue its military nuclear program if the West attempts to impose sanctions due to violations of the deal, nonproliferation expert Emily Landau of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) wrote today in an op-ed she co-authored in...

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In an exchange at yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew refused to answer Sen. Robert Menendez (D – N.J.) when he asked whether the administration would support an effort by Congress to reauthorize sanctions legislation against Iran, which is set to expire next year. A video...

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Sen. Chris Coons (D – Del.) questioned the American negotiating team behind the recently concluded nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), over the agreement’s weaknesses at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday. Addressing Secretary of State John Kerry, Coons asked if the...

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Skeptical senators from both sides of the aisle pressed three key members of the Obama administration at a hearing for explanations on Thursday over the final deal reached with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew appeared before the Senate...

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The Obama administration acknowledged yesterday that classified side agreements were made between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, setting the stage for a possible showdown with congressional critics over the role of the legislative branch in the nuclear deal, The Hill reported yesterday. National security adviser Susan Rice on...

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Iran’s foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif told Iran’s Majlis, or parliament, that according the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Iran is permitted to deny international nuclear inspectors access to military sites, “raising new questions about Tehran’s commitment to the terms of the agreement,” The Los...

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The nuclear deal agreed to last week has become a “horror story,” that will “[ensure] the establishment of a new Iranian nuclear program, which will be immeasurably more powerful and dangerous than its predecessor,” according to Ari Shavit, a senior Israeli reporter who is frequently critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

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The White House and State Department have used misleading claims to respond to criticisms that a clause in the nuclear deal giving Iran 24 days to explain a suspicious nuclear site will allow the Islamic Republic to sanitize or hide illicit material. On a page of the White House website set up to explain the deal...

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Nuclear proliferation experts have raised serious questions about a provision in the recently-agreed nuclear deal that allows Iran up to 24 days to address suspicions of unlawful nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), The New York Times reported today. Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director-general of the IAEA,...

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