If the Obama administration ratifies a nuclear deal with Iran in the United Nations Security Council but does not submit it to Congressional review, it would be “a direct affront” to the American people, Sen. Bob Corker (R – Tenn.) wrote yesterday in a letter to President Barack Obama. In recent days, senior members...

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Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, issued an unedited report (.pdf) today that “provides a picture of the prevailing situation” of human rights  in Iran. This is his first report since October 2013. One of the areas examined by Shaheed is the “Right to Life.” At least 753 individuals were reportedly...

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Talks are underway between the seven countries negotiating over Iran’s nuclear program—including the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council—to lift the security council’s sanctions on Iran, Reuters reported today. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council...

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Two new proposed laws in Iran designed to marginalize women who don’t bear children will further erode women’s rights and reduce Iranian women to “baby making machines,” according to a new report by Amnesty International published on Wednesday. One of the laws outlaws voluntary sterilization, which is believed to be the second most common method...

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A analysis for the Institute for National Security Studies published Tuesday argued that Iran’s claims of victimization are a “nuclear fairy tale,” part of a “a public campaign to persuade the media and public opinion” that it is being unfairly targeted by a “bullying hegemonic West.” In the analysis, Shimon Stein and Emily Landau...

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In an interview with Reuters on Monday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama attempted to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s credibility on the Iranian issue by saying that Netanyahu had made inaccurate statements about the outcomes of negotiations....

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The biggest concession that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei won in Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the West was the “sunset clause,” after which there “would be no legal limits on Iran’s nuclear ambitions,” Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, argued Sunday in an op-ed published in The Washington...

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Arabs across the Middle East reacted furiously after militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) destroyed a priceless collection of statues and sculptures dating back hundreds of years in a museum in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, and then posted a video of the destruction online. The Jerusalem...

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The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a new offensive on the city of Aleppo on Tuesday, the same day it reportedly agreed to a United Nations plan to suspend aerial bombing and artillery shelling on the northern city. In the new offensive around Aleppo, the Syrian army is...

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While Israel has facilitated reconstruction efforts in Gaza, political infighting between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has prevented supplies from reaching the people who need them, according to a report written by Neri Zilber and published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy today. Zilber writes: According to the...

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