There is a third option beyond a bad nuclear deal or war with Iran, Yishai Schwartz argued in a post Tuesday for the Brookings Institution’s Lawfare blog. Schwartz acknowledged the weaknesses in the emerging deal—the sunset provision allowing Iran an unconstrained nuclear program in ten years, the unlikelihood of being able to...

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that any nuclear deal with Iran must allow for inspections of all sites, “including military sites,” that inspectors suspect may be used or have been used for nuclear purposes, The Hill reported today. “France will not accept (a deal) if it is not clear that...

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Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said that inspection of military sites would be an essential part of any nuclear with Iran to ensure that the Islamic Republic cannot develop nuclear weapons, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. In an interview with AFP and...

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Ambassadors from European countries engaged in nuclear negotiations with Iran said that they will likely miss their June 30 deadline, while the sanctions regime that forced Iran to negotiate continues to erode, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Gerard Araud, the French ambassador to the United States, told a panel...

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The espionage trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, which started today in Tehran, is part of “an aggressive campaign to bully the United States and its partners into weakening” the terms of the nuclear deal being negotiated by Iran and the P5+1 nations, a staff editorial in The Washington...

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The emerging nuclear deal with Iran would only result in a “temporary turning down” of Iran’s nuclear program rather than ending it, former Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D – Conn.) told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) in an interview published yesterday. “What started out as negotiations that would lead to the end...

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iran is demanding 24 days notice before international inspections of suspected nuclear sites, Reuters reported Wednesday. When asked whether there had been some progress since April, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who has been perceived as the most demanding in the talks, said the negotiations...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly ruled out international inspections of military sites or interviews with nuclear scientists, two measures that would be necessary for a deal to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Reuters reported today: The comments, broadcast live on state TV, were the latest in a...

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The United States should transfer Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP), otherwise known as “bunker busters,” to Israel, as well as planes that can launch them, in order to deter Iran’s nuclear program more effectively, U.S. Representatives Grace Meng (D – N.Y.) and Lee Zeldin (R – N.Y.) wrote in an op-ed in The New...

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In an op-ed published today, Sen. Angus King (I – Maine) hailed the bipartisan effort in the Senate that led to the passage of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 earlier this month and wrote that a nuclear-armed Iran is a danger “to the United States and to the...

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