Ending the arms embargo on Iran in the context of a nuclear deal “may actually help create an Iranian military that puts the lives of American sailors, soldiers, and airmen at serious risk” Andrew Bowen, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest wrote in an analysis for...

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The nuclear accords announced between the P5+1 powers and Iran include a provision that will lift the UN’s conventional arms embargo imposed on Iran after five years and restrictions on ballistic missile trade after eight years, The New York Times reported today. The restrictions may be removed within an even shorter time-frame...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hailed the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, which will provide Iran with billions of dollars of sanctions relief, as a “great victory,” Agence France-Presse reported today. Iran extended the beleaguered Syrian president a $1 billion line of credit last week. Assad said the...

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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the international agreement signed by Iran and the West, will give the Islamic Republic up to 24 days to hide any illicit nuclear activity from international inspectors. Under the terms of the deal, the only site Iran may use for nuclear development for the next...

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As world powers spent the past few days finalizing an agreement to lift a UN arms embargo on Iran as part of a nuclear deal, Iranian proxies sparked violent confrontations throughout the Middle East. Forces loyal to Iran-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed 13, including seven women and a child, in bombing raids on a...

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Josh Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, issued the following statement in response to today’s announced nuclear agreement with Iran. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. Today’s announcement of this nuclear agreement with Iran is a realization of the deepest fears and the most dire predictions of skeptics...

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The P5+1 global powers and Iran today announced the conclusion of nearly two years of nuclear negotiations. The talks, which began with the aim of permanently dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, concluded with a deal that will allow Iran to have an unlimited enrichment program in a decade, and will permit...

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The P5+1 nations threw away their leverage in the nuclear negotiations by not treating Iran as a “determined proliferator” and pushing it to comply with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), opting instead to approach negotiations as “a political dispute,” Emily Landau, a leading nonproliferation expert, wrote Saturday in The Times of Israel....

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A source close to Iran’s negotiating team in Vienna said that terms of a nuclear deal were not yet agreed to, Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars claimed on Sunday, disputing a report by the Associated Press (AP) earlier in the day. An Iranian official has said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani...

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Iran continues to defy existing sanctions on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs as nuclear negotiations proceed in Vienna. In a report published Friday in The Weekly Standard, Emanuele Ottolenghi and Benjamin Weinthal, fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, cited a German intelligence agency that recently reported on Iran’s...

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