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Opinion WATCH: Iranian Goes To Extreme Lengths To Avoid Stepping On Israeli, U.S. Flags
Need a little something hopeful to break our tense political mood right now? Look no further than this video of Iranian scholar Sadegh Zibakalam. A well-known professor at the University of Tehran, the 68-year-old is seen performing some very unique physical and political gymnastics as he enters a building at another university. Even as everyone…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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Breaking News Congress May Push for New Iran Sanctions After Election Day
The Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday. The act, which expires on Dec. 31, is one of the major pieces of unfinished business facing lawmakers when they return to Washington on…
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Breaking News Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Colombian President — Iran Nuclear Dealmakers Rebuffed
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist rebels, a surpise choice after Colombians voted against the accord in a referendum. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Santos had brought one of the longest civil wars in modern history significantly closer…
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Breaking News Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Spar Over Iran Nuclear Deal at Debate
Hempstead, N.Y. — Donald Trump repeatedly slammed Hillary Clinton over the 2015 Iran nuclear deal at the first presidential debate — but the former Secretary of State hit back that the deal has succeeded in “keeping a lid” on Tehran’s threat. “You started the Iran deal, that’s another beauty,” Trump said to Clinton, “you have…
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Breaking News U.S. Made ‘Secret’ Concessions To Secure Iran Nuclear Deal: Report
The United States and its negotiating partners agreed “in secret” to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year’s landmark nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a report reviewed by Reuters. The report is to be published on Thursday by the…
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Breaking News White House Concedes Link Between $400M and Prisoner Release
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged that the release of $400 million in cash to Iran in January was linked to Iran’s release of American prisoners, but rejected notions it was a ransom payment. “With concerns that Iran may renege on the prisoner release given unnecessary delays regarding persons in Iran who could not be…
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The Schmooze Anne Frank Film Screened Clandestinely in Iran
A documentary about Anne Frank was secretly screened in Iran, a country whose leaders have openly questioned and denied the Holocaust. “Anne Frank: Then and Now” was shown to film students and a professor in a provincial theater. The film did not have government approval, and viewers risked being imprisoned for attending the event, Deadline…
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