Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president of Iran and an ally of current President Hassan Rouhani, called for the destruction of Israel and described the country as “alien” and “temporary,” according to a report Monday in Iran’s official IRNA news agency. Rafsanjani, who heads the powerful Expediency Council, which...

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Iran is demanding that the United Nations Security Council lift its embargo on the country’s arms industry in the context of the emerging nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations, The Los Angeles Times reported today. “The treatment of Iran by the [United Nations] Security Council has been terrible, to put...

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Criticizing the emerging nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran, Andrew Bowen, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest, argued that the agreement will come at the “expense of both Washington’s allies and the U.S.’ long-term strategic interests in the Middle East” in an analysis published...

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The Iranian government has started to promote the emerging nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations as a victory stemming from American concessions, Ha’aretz reported Sunday. But a major revelation happened Saturday night when Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian TV the two sides were very close to agreeing...

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Top lawmakers, military analysts, and media outlets are broadly suggesting that coziness between the Obama administration and Iranian officials will weaken the details and enforcement of whatever nuclear deal emerges from the negotiations in Vienna, Austria. Concerns began to openly surface as the latest talks commenced, with both the Associated...

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Iran and the P5+1 nations have drawn up a draft proposal for the lifting of sanctions in the event that Tehran complies with a comprehensive nuclear agreement, the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday. Written by technical experts, the document still must be approved by senior officials of the seven nations at...

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Leading Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, says that even with a nuclear deal Iran will still be “the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism,” Yahoo! politics reported Friday. “But even if we do get such a deal, we will still have major problems from Iran,” she said. “They...

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Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Vienna that ongoing negotiations between the P5+1 global powers and Iran had made progress but that more work was needed before a final agreement could be reached, If we don’t get a deal, if we don’t have a deal, if there’s absolute...

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The United States is prepared to grant Iran sanctions relief before it comes clean about its previous nuclear work, according to reports emerging from the nuclear negotiations in Vienna. The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that he believed that with Iran’s cooperation, he could resolve all issues...

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In The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It, Emanuele Ottolenghi explains how the United States and its allies wasted the leverage they had gained through years of building international sanctions against Iran, and how that will undermine the effectiveness of the emerging nuclear deal. The...

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