Welcome to the Forward’s coverage on the Iran Nuclear Deal. Here you can find plenty of information, old and new, on the 2015 agreement that eased sanctions on Iran to keep Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. President Trump pulled out…
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News Interview: Former prime minister Ehud Olmert says the two-state solution is not dead
Ehud Olmert was one of Israel’s shortest-serving prime ministers, in office just over three years — and is the only one (so far) who has been convicted of a crime, serving 16 months in prison for bribery and obstruction of justice. Now 75, Olmert remains fully engaged in his country’s rough-and-tumble politics, as one of…
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News How Biden and Bennett will push the restart button on U.S.-Israel relations
Despite their deep differences on major diplomatic questions, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett are hoping to set a new tone for U.S.-Israeli relations at the White House Thursday, their first meeting since each took office. They disagree on returning to the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and China, but…
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Fast Forward Nikki Haley: ‘Iran is the sugar daddy of Hamas’
Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. during the first two years of the Trump administration, cautioned the Biden administration against returning to the nuclear deal with Iran, in a speech to supporters of Israel on Sunday. Iran’s prime goal, by funding its proxies in the Middle East region, is to target the…
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News Analysis: Why Biden’s attempt to return to the nuclear deal with Iran is not causing alarm … yet
Six years ago, the Jewish American community was evenly divided over a key issue that would help define President Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy. A survey conducted by the Jewish Journal in July 2015 showed that 49% of American Jews supported the nuclear deal with Iran while 31% were opposed. The debate tore apart even…
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News Iran talks: ‘We are not going to pay anything upfront,’ senior administration official tells Jewish leaders
In a call with Jewish American leaders on Friday, a senior Biden administration official assured that the U.S. will not provide Iran any sanctions relief until an agreement is reached between world powers and Iran on returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. “Until we get somewhere and until we have a firm commitment, and it’s…
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Fast Forward Biden State Department appointee on Iran talks: ‘2021 is not 2015’
Wendy Sherman, President Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy Secretary of State, told members of the Senate on Wednesday that the administration is “clear-eyed” about its goals in an attempt to re-join the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. “I would note that 2021 is not 2015, when the deal was agreed; nor 2016, when it was…
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News Biden’s moves on Iran give Republicans opening to make Israel a wedge issue
Secretary of State Tony Blinken promised during his Senate confirmation hearings last month that the Biden administration would not rush to re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and would only do so with input from Israel and other Middle East allies. So it was something of a surprise when Blinken, America’s top diplomat, told…
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Fast Forward 150 House Democrats sign letter backing Biden’s bid to reenter Iran nuclear deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A letter backing President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to reenter the Iran nuclear deal without any new conditions has garnered 150 signatures from House Democrats — enough to block any congressional bid to prevent the move. The sentiments in the letter are in direct contradiction to the urgings of the Israel lobby group…
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