Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated that the UN Security Council resolution supporting the recent nuclear deal contradicts Iran’s “red lines,” The New York Times reported today. General Jafari’s remarks, reported in an interview with Iran’s Tasnim news agency, appeared to be primarily concerned...

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Today’s vote by the United Nations Security Council affirming the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal that the Council’s permanent members reached with Iran last week, has been hailed as a means to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. However, it represents a formal departure from the approach that...

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The recently-signed nuclear deal with Iran was approved unanimously by by the United Nations Security Council today, despite protests from both Republican and Democratic members of Congress on legislative and Constitutional grounds. Reuters reported today: Passage of the resolution triggers a complex set of coordinated steps agreed by Iran during nearly two years of talks with the...

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The Obama administration’s plan to use a United Nations Security Council resolution this week to force Congress to approve the nuclear deal with Iran would “essentially [abrogate] the treaty power of Congress,” Walter Russell Mead, a historian and professor of foreign affairs at Bard College, wrote Friday in an analysis for...

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An NGO affiliated with the Palestinian terror organization Hamas is likely to be accredited to operate at the United Nations, Gerald Steinberg, president of the watchdog organization NGO Monitor, wrote today in The New York Post. Adding to the scandal, the move to have the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) join the UN’s Economic and Social...

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The highest-ranking Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have sent a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him not to hold a United Nations Security Council vote to remove sanctions imposed on Iran before Congress has a chance to review the deal. The sanctions were placed on Iran for violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty....

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Qassem Suleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general who was implicated in the 2011 Iranian plot to assassinate Adel Al-Jubeir, then Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, will be removed from two lists of sanctioned individuals as part of the nuclear deal with Iran, Business Insider reported yesterday. As...

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The last-minute addition of a provision to the nuclear deal that will lift the arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council on Iran has prompted a number of Democratic lawmakers to vocally express their concern, the National Journal reported yesterday. Democrats are grappling with a reported phased lifting...

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The nuclear accords announced between the P5+1 powers and Iran include a provision that will lift the UN’s conventional arms embargo imposed on Iran after five years and restrictions on ballistic missile trade after eight years, The New York Times reported today. The restrictions may be removed within an even shorter time-frame...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hailed the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, which will provide Iran with billions of dollars of sanctions relief, as a “great victory,” Agence France-Presse reported today. Iran extended the beleaguered Syrian president a $1 billion line of credit last week. Assad said the...

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