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Fast Forward Iran Nuclear Deal Nears as Ministers Gather — Issues Remain
Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of five other world powers joined talks on Iran’s contested nuclear programme on Saturday with the two sides edging towards a breakthrough to ease a dangerous decade-old standoff. The Chinese, Russian, French, British and German foreign ministers – Wang Yi, Sergei Lavrov, Laurent Fabius, William Hague and…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Joins Iran Nuclear Talks — Deal Looks in Sight
Secretary of State John Kerry will join talks on Iran’s contested nuclear programme in Geneva on Saturday, as Tehran and six world powers appeared to be on the verge of an elusive breakthrough in the decade-old dispute. The French, British and German foreign ministers, Laurent Fabius, William Hague and Guido Westerwelle, were also due to…
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Fast Forward 56% of Americans Back Iran Nuclear Deal
A poll showed majority support for the Obama administration strategy of easing sanctions on Iran in exchange for a partial rollback of its nuclear program. A CNN poll released Thursday and conducted by ORC international showed 56 percent of respondents favored “an interim deal that would ease some of those economic sanctions and in exchange…
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Fast Forward Senators Vow To Press Iran Nuclear Sanctions
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday he was committed to moving ahead with a tougher Iran sanctions bill when the Senate returns from a holiday recess early next month, adding to pressure on negotiators meeting in Geneva on a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program. “I will support a bill that would broaden…
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News Extremist Haredi Cult Flees Quebec, Planning Move to Iran
Forty families belonging to an extremist haredi Orthodox cult fled their Quebec homes and are planning to go to Iran. Members of the group, called Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, left their homes on Tuesday out of fear that Canadian welfare authorities would take their children, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The paper cited…
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Fast Forward White House Accuses Israel of Stoking Iran ‘War’
Israel’s proposal that Iran totally dismantle its nuclear capacity in exchange for sanctions relief would likely lead to war, a top White House official said. The official, in a conference call Wednesday with think tanks and advocacy groups sympathetic to the Obama administration’s Iran strategy, outlined the proposal that the major powers will put to…
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Opinion Editor’s Choice: The Question of Loyalty and Iran
The Forward is partnering with other Jewish newspapers to offer our readers a peek at some of the best stories from around the country, as selected by the editors at those papers. We will offer a selection of unedited links with brief introductions from the editors of the papers. Barack or Bibi? Trust, Loyalty and…
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Fast Forward Iran Nuclear Deal Would Halt Progress to Bomb — Not Prevent It
An interim deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear programme aims to make it harder for the Islamic state to build any bomb but may still leave it, at least for now, with enough material for several nuclear warheads if refined to a high degree. In a sign of how far Iran’s nuclear activity has advanced in…
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