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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Israel News At The U.N., Netanyahu Emerges As Trump’s Biggest Fan
A day of lengthy speeches addressing a global audience concluded with few signs of international cooperation, with one glaring exception—the increasingly profound friendship and mutual admiration between the leaders of the United States and Israel. The Donald Trump-Benjamin Netanyahu love story played out in statements made and in issues ignored during the speeches both leaders…
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News Trump And Netanyahu Strain To Avoid Even Mentioning ‘Two-State Solution’
The two-state solution, once a cornerstone of American and Israeli policy and official communications, is now so explosive that it cannot be uttered even when the president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel meet to discuss the future of the Middle East. “I really believe peace between the Palestinians and Israel…
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Fast Forward Iran Warns It Could Dump Nuclear Deal ‘Within Hours’ Over New Sanctions
Iran could abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers “within hours” if the United States imposes any more new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. “If America wants to go back to the experience (of imposing sanctions), Iran would certainly return in a short time – not a week or a month but…
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Opinion Trump’s Bibi-Esque Iran Policy Shows The Right’s Allergy To Diplomacy
Of the three immense embarrassments that befell the Trump presidency in mid-July, two were the fault of Trump’s aides and allies. The third was entirely his own doing. The difference is telling, and it’s critical that we understand it. The first two embarrassments — Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting and Congress’s failure to repeal Obamacare…
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Fast Forward Obama White House Freed Nuclear Smuggler In Iran Deal Trade-Off
(JTA) — The Obama administration’s January 2016 prisoner exchange with Iran allegedly involved dropping prosecutions against more Iranian fugitives than previously known, including a top procurer of material with nuclear applications. Some of the seven men freed in the exchange were accused by the Justice Department of posing threats to national security. In addition, the Justice…
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Letters Letter To The Editor: Recognize Continuing Dangers Of Iran Nuclear Deal
In his recent column (“How Bibi Played Us On The Iran Deal — And We Let Him”) Peter Beinart claims Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu duped us by hyping the threat posed by the Iran nuclear deal. But who does Beinart mean by “us”? It doesn’t take a Bibi Netanyahu to recognize the dangers the accord…
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Fast Forward Iran Insists It Won’t Renegotiate Nuclear Deal — Even If Trump Pushes New Sanctions
Iran will not renegotiate its nuclear agreement with world powers, even if it faces new U.S. sanctions after Donald Trump becomes president, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday. Trump, who will take office on Friday, has threatened to either scrap the agreement, which curbs Iran’s nuclear program and lifts sanctions against it, or…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Tell Trump 5 Ways To Scrap Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he would present to President-elect Donald Trump multiple options to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal. “There are ways, various ways of undoing it,” Netanyahu said in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday. “I have about five things in my mind.” He said he would…
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