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Fast Forward White House ‘Confident’ in Watchdog’s Controversial Iran Inspection Plan
A White House spokesman said the administration was “confident” in an agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran that would reportedly let Iran’s hand-picked inspectors examine a suspected weapons site. The Associated Press reported Wednesday on an agreement signed between the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran that would let experts…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Stays Neutral on Iran Deal
The Reform movement released a statement neither supporting nor opposing the recently signed agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Rep. Steve Cohen (D – Tenn.), who is Jewish , said he would support the deal, which lifts sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program. He noted, though, that the deal has flaws and that…
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News How New York’s Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand Split on Iran Deal
Within a few hours on August 6, New York’s two U.S. Democratic senators took sides on the heated debate over the nuclear deal with Iran. Kirsten Gillibrand, the junior senator, announced she’d vote for the controversial agreement. Chuck Schumer, the veteran who is slated to take over next year as Democratic leader of the Senate,…
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Opinion How Demonizing Iran Deal Supporters Brings Out Worst in Israel
Israeli police beefed up security last week for the American ambassador, Dan Shapiro, after he received a series of death threats related to U.S. support for the Iran nuclear deal. At least three explicit death threats were delivered in writing last Wednesday alone, following an undisclosed number in the preceding days to his home and…
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Fast Forward Mitch McConnell Admits Iran Deal Will Likely Pass
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the United States Congress would likely not muster the two-thirds majority needed to reject the recent accord over Iran’s nuclear program. To reject the agreement, a majority of Congress would need to vote against it, which is likely, and then garner a two-thirds majority to overcome President Obama’s promised…
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News How Iran’s Jews Survive in Mullahs’ World
The first thing I noticed about Shahab Shahamifar as we strolled to synagogue on a Saturday morning in July was his yarmulke. It was a medium-size, black knitted one, and he was wearing it as we walked the busy streets of Tehran. Then I noticed that no one looked up. Later, when the rabbi went…
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Fast Forward 340 Rabbis Back Iran Deal in Letter to Congress
In a letter to Congress, 340 U.S. rabbis from the major streams of Judaism expressed support for the Iran nuclear deal. The letter sent Monday urges the House of Representatives and Senate to endorse the agreement, in which sanctions are lifted in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program. Noting that “we are deeply concerned…
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Opinion Don’t Buy the Story Iran’s Government Is Selling You
I have no doubt that the Forward’s Larry Cohler-Esses has . The trouble is, he seems to have seen and learned only a sliver of a vastly more nuanced and tangled reality. As a result, he ends up reinforcing some half-truths, served up by the regime to well-meaning foreign media, which they take up and…
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