A classified document from the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran reveals that Western powers are willing to help Iran construct a low-water nuclear reactor instead of its nearly-completed plutonium-producing plant, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. This proposal is strikingly similar to the plan outlined in the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, the last...

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An open letter to the White House signed by a bipartisan group of experts, including five former Obama administration officials, called on the United States to strengthen the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The letter enumerated five elements that need to be strengthened to prevent Iran...

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A classified annex to the emerging nuclear deal reveals that the P5+1 powers have promised to provide Iran with advanced nuclear technology, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. To that end, the draft, entitled “Civil Nuclear Cooperation,” promises to supply Iran with light-water nuclear reactors instead of its nearly completed...

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In order to finalize a deal ensuring that Iran will be prevented from developing nuclear weapons, the West needs to focus on “sharpening the consequences should Tehran fail to accept the P5+1 proposals,” according an analysis published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. The piece, written by Michael Singh, managing director of the Washington Institute...

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A bipartisan group of former senators has banded to highlight the dangers of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Politico reported Tuesday. The latest salvo lands Wednesday, when the American Security Initiative, a bipartisan group chaired by former senators, unleashes an ad blitz, urging eight senators from both parties to...

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In his pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama could be “headed down the wrong path,” possibly allowing Iran “to further threaten Middle Eastern stability, jeopardize American interests, or destroy our strongest ally,” Congresswoman Kristi Noem wrote Sunday in an op-ed published in the Black Hills Pioneer....

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The effectiveness of a nuclear deal with Iran could be undercut by “bureaucratic neglect—or a political desire to look the other way,” argued an editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal published today. The piece was commenting on a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that the State Department “had failed to provide...

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Iran’s parliament voted Sunday to approve legislation that would forbid international inspectors from accessing military sites as part of any nuclear accord with the West. The legislation, which is in line with pronouncements of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials, would block one of the...

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Secretary of State John Kerry’s remark earlier this week that “We’re not fixated on Iran specifically accounting for what they did at one point in time or another” has caused concern among lawmakers that the White House has stepped back from its previous demand that Iran must come clean about its past...

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The emerging nuclear deal with Iran will not “end Iran’s ability and motivation to have a nuclear-weapons option” wrote Aaron David Miller, a State Department official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, in an analysis published today in Time. After noting that the likely result of the deal is the emergence of “a...

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