Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht, respectively the executive director and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, argued that the emerging deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran makes an armed conflict over Iran’s nuclear program more likely in an op-ed that appeared Thursday in The Wall Street Journal....

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Michael Makovsky, the CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, testified that the emerging nuclear deal with Iran will hurt American interests and credibility in the Middle East at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday. In the beginning of his testimony (.pdf), Makovsky highlighted five significant shortcomings...

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In a brief statement today in Vienna, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the nuclear negotiations with Iran will be extended once again, though they are “not open-ended” and that the United States was “absolutely prepared to call an end to this process.” The Times of Israel reported: “Some tough...

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The ongoing nuclear talks have sparked an outpouring of hatred towards the United States in Iran, The New York Times reported today. The chants of “Death to America” and the burning of American flags in the streets are as familiar a part of life here as air pollution and traffic...

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An Obama administration official has expressed concern that the billions of dollars in sanctions relief that will be awarded Iran after a nuclear deal could be used to promote terrorism, The Daily Beast reported today. “We are of course aware and concerned that, despite the massive domestic spending needs facing Iran, some...

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The Israel Project (TIP) was praised for “doing a remarkable job in tracking the ups and downs” of the nuclear talks between the P5+1 nations and Iran by an editorial published by The New York Sun on Monday. The editorial quotes from e-mails from Omri Ceren, TIP’s managing director for press...

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The administration’s response to a report of an Iranian violation of the Joint Plan of Actions (JPOA) suggests that the White House believes “overlooking Iranian cheating is easier than confronting it,” an unsigned staff editorial in The Washington Post asserted Tuesday. The editorial raised questions about the emerging nuclear deal...

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In the wake of Tehran’s latest demands to have the United Nations Security Council lift its embargoes on Iran’s arms industry, nuclear negotiators missed their fifth deadline and agreed to extend talks until Friday, Bloomberg Business reported today. After almost two years, diplomats say they’re closer than ever to sealing an...

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Congress must perform a thorough review of any nuclear deal with Iran that is submitted by the administration, Jeffrey Robbins, who served as a staff attorney in the Senate and as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council, wrote in an op-ed published today in The Boston...

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The sanctions relief that is slated to accompany the emerging nuclear deal with Iran will likely enrich and further entrench Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters reported on Monday. The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more than just a...

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