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Fast Forward Joe Biden Tells AIPAC That Obama Is Not ‘Bluffing’ on Iran Nuclear Threat
Vice President Joe Biden told America’s biggest pro-Israel lobbying organization on Monday that President Barack Obama is “not bluffing” about the United States’ determination to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. “The president of the United States cannot and does not bluff. President Barack Obama is not bluffing,” he told the American Israel Public…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says Nuclear Talks Have Given Iran Time To Build Arsenal
Renewed international efforts to negotiate curbs on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme have backfired by giving it more time to work on building a bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks on the inconclusive Feb. 26-27 meeting between Iran and six world powers signalled impatience by Israel, which has threatened to launch…
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News AIPAC Offers Clues to Barack Obama as He Heads to Israel
As President Obama prepares for his trip to Israel, he can get a good sense of Israeli expectations by listening in to speeches and conversations at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference. There, the message is clear: The perceived nuclear threat from Iran and the turmoil in Syria and in other neighboring…
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Fast Forward Hagel To Meet Israeli Defense Minister Barak at Pentagon
New U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, whom Republican critics have sought to portray as anti-Israel, will meet Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Pentagon on Tuesday for his first face-to-face visit with a foreign counterpart. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the talks between the U.S. and Israeli defense chiefs would…
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Fast Forward Bills Targeting Iran Introduced in Time for AIPAC Conference
Lawmakers in Congress introduced bills in time for AIPAC’s annual policy conference that would tighten Iran sanctions and back Israel should it strike that country’s suspected nuclear program. A bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), the chairman of its Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel…
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Fast Forward Argentina’s Congress Approves Pact with Iran To Probe Bombing of Jewish Community Center
Argentina’s Congress approved early on Thursday a agreement with Iran to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that Argentine courts have long accused Tehran of sponsoring. Jewish leaders say the pact to set up a “truth commission” risks undermining the ongoing judicial investigation into the attack, which killed 85 people,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Wants World To Issue New Military Threat on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the international community on Wednesday to threaten Iran with “military sanctions”, saying economic measures are failing to curb Tehran’s nuclear drive. “I believe it is incumbent upon the international community to intensify the sanctions and clarify that if Iran continues its programme, there will be military sanctions,” Netanyahu said….
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Fast Forward Iran All Smiles, West Wary After Nuclear Summit
Iran gave an upbeat assessment of two days of nuclear talks with world powers that ended on Wednesday, but Western officials said Tehran must start taking concrete steps to ease mounting concerns about its atomic activity. The first negotiations between Iran and six world powers in eight months ended without a breakthrough in Almaty, but…
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