In order to ensure that the emerging nuclear deal will effectively prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the United States must insist on implementing eight principles to “achieve a sound, enforceable deal,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – S.C) wrote in an op-ed (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal today. Graham...

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Saudi Arabia had made the “strategic decision” to purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan amid the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, a former American defense official said in a report published today in The Sunday Times. “There has been a longstanding agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House...

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The Czech Republic stopped Iran from making a major purchase of equipment that could be used in its nuclear program, Reuters reported Wednesday. Some details of the attempted purchase were described in the latest annual report of an expert panel for the United Nations Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee, which has...

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The United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that will allow Congress to review, and perhaps reject, a nuclear agreement with Iran. The bill passed 400-25, similar in its popularity to the Senate’s 98-1 tally. CNN reported: Initially the White House resisted efforts to give Congress a...

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As President Barack Obama is making his case for a nuclear deal with Iran, a former Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, is arguing that the deal will have the opposite effect of what the president intends by “open[ing] the door” to nuclear proliferation, The New York Times reported today. “Whatever...

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A United Nations panel in charge of monitoring illicit Iranian nuclear procurement suggested in its recently released annual report that a decline in confirmed reports of such violations could be attributed to “a political decision by some member states to refrain from reporting to avoid any possible negative impact on ongoing negotiations between …...

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Shortly after Iranian foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke at New York University, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) responded, criticizing Zarif’s demand that U.N.-imposed sanctions on Iran must be lifted immediately upon completing a nuclear deal and challenging Zarif to a debate. On his website, Cotton pointed out that Zarif’s remarks contradicted...

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In a speech at New York University today, Iranian foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at President Barack Obama and the U.S. Senate, justified the detention of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship, and suggested that The Washington Post‘s Tehran reporter, Jason Rezaian, is a spy. Josh Rogin of...

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According to a Quinnipiac poll released Monday, sixty-five percent of Americans believe that any agreement with Iran should be subject to congressional approval—increasing the public pressure on the White House to ensure Congress’ role in any final agreement reached. The current bipartisan legislation before the Senate, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act...

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A policy towards Iran that is based on the belief that that Islamic Republic will change its destabilizing behavior in the Middle East is mistaken, as even after signing a nuclear deal Iran will not curb the nation’s “imperial ambition,” three fellows at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy wrote...

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