In testimony before a House of Representatives hearing Wednesday, former Treasury Department official Jonathan Schanzer warned that the sanctions relief being offered to Iran as part of ongoing nuclear negotiations threatens to make “much more terror finance” available to terror groups, The Hill reported yesterday. A former Treasury Department official raised concerns on...

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In prepared testimony (.pdf) before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday, David Albright, founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, stated that the emerging agreement with Iran over its nuclear program needs to be significantly strengthened, particularly when it comes to verifying compliance with the deal....

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Warning that the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran is weakening friends and strengthening enemies, former State Department official Aaron David Miller observed Wednesday in a commentary written for CNN that in the battle for influence in the Middle East, the United States is being “outfoxed, not outgunned” by Iran. Miller contrasted Iran’s...

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The United States government has known for “several years” that Iran’s breakout time—the amount of time required to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb—is only two to three months, but only declassified the information recently, Eli Lake reported today for Bloomberg View. Lake noted that in 2013, when President...

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The former commander of the Israeli Air Force has warned that it will be one or two years before the full implications of a deal with Iran over its nuclear program are properly understood. “If we don’t see a violation the day after any deal is agreed, that doesn’t mean...

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Former Bush administration official Michael Doran asserted that a “coercive component” would be essential to convincing Iran to give up its nuclear program in an interview published today with Max Fisher of the online publication Vox. When asked by Fisher if the goal of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear...

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The “loss of moral self-confidence” exemplified by the United States in its nuclear negotiations with Iran “threatens not only the United States and Israel but also the people of Iran and a growing number of others living under Tehran’s increasingly emboldened rule,” former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky wrote Friday in...

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The Obama administration is looking to provide Iran with up to $50 billion in sanctions relief upon the signing of a nuclear deal, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Friday. The Obama administration estimates Iran has between $100 billion and $140 billion of its oil revenue frozen in offshore accounts as a...

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Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III expressed concerns about the understanding reached between the P5+1 and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday. Baker wrote that there appeared to be “serious misunderstandings” between the negotiating parties on what a final agreement would look...

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A meeting earlier this week between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the disclosure of Iran’s past nuclear research and capabilities ended with no breakthrough, Reuters reported Thursday, contradicting the claim of Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA that they had “found solutions” to the problems discussed. The...

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