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Israel News Iran’s Hassan Rowhani Wants to Make a Nuclear Deal — Leaving Israel Isolated
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Fast Forward Israel Kept in Loop on Barack Obama’s Historic Phone Call to Iran Leader
White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice informed her Israeli counterpart Yaakov Amidror Friday of the planned telephone conversation U.S. President Barack Obama was to hold with Iranian President Hassan Rohani and then informed him of its contents after it had taken place. A senior Israeli official said that Amidror traveled to Washington Friday morning,…
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Fast Forward Iranians Rally Behind Hassan Rouhani After Historic Call to Barack Obama
Hundreds of Iranians cheered President Hassan Rouhani on his return from New York on Saturday after his historic phone call with U.S. President Barack Obama but a smaller number of hardliners shouted “Death to America” and threw eggs and shoes at his official car leaving the airport, Iranian media reported. While an anticipated handshake between…
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Fast Forward How Barack Obama’s 15-Minute Call to Hassan Rouhani Made History
President Barack Obama and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone on Friday, the highest-level contact between the two countries in three decades and a sign that they are serious about reaching a pact on Tehran’s nuclear program. The call is the culmination of a dramatic shift in tone between Iran and the United…
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Fast Forward Hassan Rouhani Wants Quick Nuclear Deal and Better Ties With West
New Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday he wanted talks with major powers on Iran’s nuclear program to yield results in a short period of time and that the improved mood in U.S.-Iranian relations could lead to better ties. “The atmosphere (in Iran-U.S. ties) is quite different from the past,” Rouhani told a news…
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Fast Forward John Kerry’s ‘Shall We Talk’ Sparked Iran Thaw
First there was a handshake, then an invitation to talk and finally a 30-minute tete-a-tete that made for the highest-level official meeting between the United States and Iran in more than three decades. The opportunity for a rare meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, came after…
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Israel News AIPAC Pushes Tough Line on Iran as Nuclear Thaw Picks Up Pace
Emerging from a losing and ultimately aborted congressional battle to win approval of military action against Syria, the mainstream pro-Israel lobby is now launching a new drive to set the terms for a potential nuclear deal between the United States and Iran. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is launching its campaign — one much…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Looks Forward to ‘Good’ Nuclear Meeting With Iran
Secretary of State John Kerry said he looked forward to a “good meeting” with Iran and major powers on Thursday but would not address what Iran needed to do to show a genuine desire to address its nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif meets his counterparts from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the…
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