Spurred by a letter written by Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Texas) to three senior Obama administration officials, investigative journalist Claudia Rosett on Thursday examined the possibility that Iran and North Korea are collaborating on nuclear weapons research in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal. The most salient question,...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered top government officials to take actions that could violate last year’s nuclear deal, Reuters reported Tuesday. The orders, which can be found on Rouhani’s presidential website, instructed Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Ali Akbar Salehi to: “1. Plan for designing and manufacturing nuclear engine to...

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Will Obama (or Trump) Release Secret Iran Documents? Senators from both parties have called on the White House to release documents pertaining to the Iran nuclear deal that are being stored in secured classified facilities despite not actually being classified. The documents reportedly contain American promises regarding the opening-up of Iran’s economy, details of...

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A number of Democratic senators, including some who supported the nuclear deal with Iran, are calling for the release of documents related to the deal that have been stored in classified facilities despite not actually being classified. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that the Obama administration placed the documents in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information...

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President-elect Donald Trump will have to avoid “making the same assumptions and often the same mistakes” that prior administrations from both parties have made since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, wrote Monday in Politico. According to him, the...

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While President-elect Donald Trump will likely be stricter in enforcing the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran, the incoming administration should not ignore the threat that Iran’s chemical and biological weapons programs pose, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Monday at Forbes. Enforcing the...

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Mideast Envoys Think Jimmy Carter’s Peace Proposal is Nuts After publishing an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on President Barack Obama to recognize Palestinian statehood and support efforts in the United Nations Security Council to set parameters for a peace agreement, former President Jimmy Carter was the...

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The former deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency has criticized the agency for “reduc[ing] the level of transparency and details in its reporting” on Iran’s nuclear program, making it “practically impossible” to confirm that Iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear deal. Olli Heinonen, who worked for...

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Three Democratic senators forcefully rejected recent charges by top Iranian officials that the United States would be violating the nuclear deal if it extended the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), The Weekly Standard reported Tuesday. The House of Representatives passed the ISA’s renewal in a 419-1 vote earlier this month. The bill needs to pass...

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Highly radioactive material was stolen from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, including a supply of iridium-192, an unstable isotope that can be used to manufacture dirty bombs, the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Friday. A dirty bomb combines radioactive material with conventional explosives in order to contaminate the area...

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