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Israel News Jewish Groups Back Away From All-Out Fight Over Iran Nuclear Deal
American Jewish organizations have taken a step back from the barricades in the emergent conflict between Israel and the United States over the interim agreement with Iran on its contested nuclear program. Even as Israel has fiercely attacked the agreement, signed by the United States and five other countries with Iran, the Jewish organizations have…
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Opinion Was Valerie Jarrett Obama’s Secret Iran Link?
That bombshell Associated Press report on Sunday about the months of secret U.S.-Iranian talks that led up to the Geneva agreement has added whole new layers of mystery and intrigue, not to mention venom, to the news of the nuclear agreement itself. What’s fascinating is how much isn’t being said. The story was first broken…
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Israel News AIPAC Holds Fire on Iran Nuclear Deal — Calls for Tougher Future Stance
In a carefully worded statement awaited by many observers, the main pro-Israel lobby focused more on pushing for a tough final agreement with Iran on its nuclear program than on blasting the United States and several other countries for signing an interim agreement with Iran that Israel has denounced. Even on the question of the…
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Fast Forward Congress Iran Hawks Back Off — for Now
(JTA) — They want to brandish a new stick against Iran, but hawks in Congress aren’t going to use it — yet. For all the disappointment they expressed following the deal on Iran’s nuclear program, skeptics in Congress appear to be willing to give the agreement brokered by the Obama administration space to breathe —…
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Israel News Ron Dermer Faces Big Challenges as Israel’s New Ambassador to the U.S.
Ron Dermer really had to hit the ground running. Before even getting a chance to unpack his bags and settle in, Israel’s new ambassador to the United States has been thrust into one of the toughest challenges an Israeli envoy can face: a major row between Jerusalem and Washington over Iran’s nuclear program, the issue…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Blasts Critics of Iran Deal
President Barack Obama took on critics of a newly brokered nuclear deal with Iran on Monday by saying tough talk was good for politics but not good for U.S. security. Top Republicans – as well as U.S. ally Israel – have criticized Obama for agreeing to the deal, which the United States and its partners…
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Fast Forward Will Israel Keep Fighting Iran Deal Even Now That It’s Sealed?
(JTA) — With an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program in place, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu each face formidable challenges ahead. For Obama, the goal will be to move from the interim agreement to a broader and more permanent deal within six months, all while managing deep skepticism about the deal…
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Fast Forward How Great Satan and Axis of Evil Made Nice — and Cut Deal
Saturday night had turned into Sunday morning and four days of talks over Iran’s nuclear programme had already gone so far over schedule that the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel had been given over to another event. A black tie charity ball was finishing up and singers with an after party band at a bar above the…
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