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Fast Forward Barack Obama Reassures Israel on Iran Deal
President Barack Obama attempted to reassure a skeptical Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday about a deal struck with Iran on its nuclear program and said he wants to begin consultations with Israel about it immediately. Obama spoke to Netanyahu by phone prior to departing the White House on a Democratic fund-raising trip to…
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Opinion A Worthy Leap of Faith
The interim agreement reached between the United States, five world powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran is not, as some commentators have said, a “historic deal.” Nor, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, is it a “historic mistake.” Its historical significance will only be known in six months or, perhaps, six years. Instead,…
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Fast Forward Skeptical Congress Will Give White House Space on Iran
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators on Sunday voiced skepticism about an interim nuclear deal reached with Iran but Congress looked likely to give President Barack Obama room to see if the agreement works. The deal does not need to be ratified by Congress and Obama is using his executive power to temporarily suspend some existing…
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Opinion Israeli Intel: Kvetching Aside, Iran Deal ‘Pretty Good’
We’ve noted before that the assessments of Israel’s security needs we hear from Israel’s elected leadership, starting with the prime minister, are not always identical — to put in mildly — to the assessments the leadership gets from its own intelligence and security professionals. On the surface, that dissonance appears to be recurring in spades…
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Fast Forward Understanding the Nuclear Deal With Iran
For the first time in a decade, the United States and a coalition of world powers have reached an agreement with Iran to curb the country’s nuclear program. The deal requires Iran to limit its nuclear enrichment and freeze most of its centrifuges for six months, as well as halt construction on its plutonium reactor….
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Fast Forward White House Insists ‘No Illusions’ on Iran Deal
The Obama administration insisted on strong safeguards in a nuclear deal with Iran and has no illusions about the risks that the Islamic state might not follow through on its obligations, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday. Kerry sought to reassure skeptics in the U.S. Congress who worry that the six-month agreement…
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Fast Forward Experts Say Deal Eases Iran Bomb Threat — Despite Israel Objections
A breakthrough agreement between Iran and six world powers to restrain its nuclear programme has been denounced by Israel as an “historical mistake” but should nevertheless make it significantly harder for Tehran to build any atomic bomb. By halting Iran’s most sensitive enrichment of uranium and stopping other aspects of its nuclear activities from expanding,…
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Fast Forward Israel Slams Iran Nuclear Deal as ‘Historic Mistake’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denounced the world powers’ nuclear agreement with Iran as a historic mistake that left the production of atomic weapons within Tehran’s reach. A grim-faced Netanyahu, who had strongly opposed any easing of economic sanctions against Iran – in a rift with Israel’s main ally, the United States –…
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