The international inspection plan meant to verify that Iran is observing the terms of the recently-signed nuclear deal is not strong enough to ensure compliance, William Tobey, a former deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote (Google link) Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. He argued that even the “anytime,...

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National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced yesterday during an interview at the White House that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will be traveling to Saudi Arabia and Israel in order to convince these traditional U.S. allies of the benefits of the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a report yesterday by Reuters....

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Qassem Suleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general who was implicated in the 2011 Iranian plot to assassinate Adel Al-Jubeir, then Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, will be removed from two lists of sanctioned individuals as part of the nuclear deal with Iran, Business Insider reported yesterday. As...

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In an analysis written after the announcement of a nuclear agreement with Iran, Richard Haas, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, expressed concern that even under the best circumstances, the deal will leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state. After pointing out several weaknesses in the deal, which allows...

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Calling the Syrian civil war, which has claimed over 300,000 lives, the “worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century,” Michael Weiss and Nancy Youssef wrote today in The Daily Beast that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stands to achieve significant gains due to the nuclear agreement reached between the P5+1 powers and Iran....

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Iran has a long history of violating international law, a behavior which the nuclear deal it negotiated with the P5+1 powers doesn’t have an effective mechanism to change, Benny Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in The New York...

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Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog plans to travel to the United States in the coming days to voice his concerns regarding the nuclear deal crafted by the P5+1 nations and Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported today. Amid news of the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers, opposition...

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The nuclear deal announced between the P5+1 powers and Iran yesterday has been received harshly in Saudi Arabia, with local media broadly emphasizing the deal’s flaws, Israel’s i24 website reported today. A cartoon in Asharq al-Awsat, a pan-Arab daily close to King Salman’s branch of the ruling family, showed a...

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The flawed nuclear deal reached yesterday “maps Iran’s emergence as a regional power, with the full blessing … of the United States,” Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, wrote in an op-ed published today in The New York Daily News. After pointing out the various...

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The last-minute addition of a provision to the nuclear deal that will lift the arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council on Iran has prompted a number of Democratic lawmakers to vocally express their concern, the National Journal reported yesterday. Democrats are grappling with a reported phased lifting...

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