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Fast Forward Trump ‘Open’ To Working With Iran To End Syria War
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration is open to working with Iran to end the Syria conflict. “The United States remains open to working together with both Russia and Iran to find a solution that leads to a stable and united Syria,” Sean Spicer, the White House spokesman, said Monday in opening remarks at the…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz: What If Israel Is the Ally That Trump Betrayed To Russia?
Lawyer and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz speculated that Israel was the source of intelligence that President Trump revealed to the Russians. “Let’s take the following hypothetical: What if it was Israel who provided this intelligence?” he said on an interview on MSNBC. He warned that if Israeli intelligence was shared with Russia, then Russia could…
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Fast Forward Obama White House Freed Nuclear Smuggler In Iran Deal Trade-Off
(JTA) — The Obama administration’s January 2016 prisoner exchange with Iran allegedly involved dropping prosecutions against more Iranian fugitives than previously known, including a top procurer of material with nuclear applications. Some of the seven men freed in the exchange were accused by the Justice Department of posing threats to national security. In addition, the Justice…
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Fast Forward 4 Things North Korea Tells Us About Iran — And Doesn’t
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Trump administration last week endorsed a narrative long promoted by critics of the Iran nuclear deal: It’s North Korea all over again. “An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea, and take the world along with it,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday at a press…
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Fast Forward Trump Says Iran Violating ‘Spirit’ Of Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Iran is not living up to the “spirit” of the nuclear deal, President Donald Trump said Thursday, the latest in a flurry of mixed messages on the deal his administration has relayed in recent days. “As far as Iran is concerned I think they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement…
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Israel News U.S. Pushes U.N. Security Council To Focus On Iran, Not Israel
The United States pushed the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to focus on “illegal and dangerous behavior” by Iran and Lebanese group Hezbollah in the Middle East, an accusation that Iran dismissed as “misleading propaganda.” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the 15-member council that its monthly meetings on the Middle…
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Fast Forward Trump Sticks With Obama Playbook On Iran Nuclear Deal
(JTA) — The Trump administration certified that Iran is in compliance with the deal it signed with the world powers to rein in its nuclear program. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday sent a letter to Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. certifying the compliance with the 2015 deal, which…
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Opinion How CNN’s ‘Believer’ Smears Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox As Intolerant ‘Black Peril’
Reza Aslan, host of the modestly named “Believer With Reza Aslan” on CNN, has rendered his verdict: “ultra-Orthodox” Jews in Israel are to the Jewish state what the mullahs were to Iran in 1979. Sensationalism isn’t entirely unexpected from a presenter who, on the segment of his show dedicated to Hinduism, focused on a sect…
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