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Fast Forward Bibi Says Iran Nuclear Deal Getting Even Worse
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that concessions to Iran are increasing as it approaches the deadline for its nuclear talks with world powers. Netanyahu referred to the June 30 deadline addressing the 163rd Pilots Course Graduation Ceremony on Thursday at the Hatzerim Israel Air Force base in Israel’s south. “The foremost threat that endangers…
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Fast Forward 5 Ex-Obama Officials Join Push for Stronger Iran Deal
A group of prominent American security advisers, including five with ties to President Barrack Obama’s first term, warned on Wednesday that a deal on curbing Iran’s nuclear program was at risk of failing to provide adequate safeguards. In an open letter, the group of former U.S. officials and foreign policy experts cautioned that an Iran…
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Fast Forward Iran Parliament Sets Conditions for Nuclear Deal
Iran’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday banning access for U.N. inspectors to its military sites and scientists, potentially complicating chances for a nuclear accord with world powers as a self-imposed June 30 deadline approaches. Two major stumbling blocks to a deal have been disputes over how much transparency Iran should offer to ease suspicions…
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Fast Forward Iran Nuclear Deal Looks More Likely as Talks Enter Home Stretch
Iran is trying to avoid detailed commitments. The French are sticking to their tough line. And U.S. President Barack Obama faces a battle to sell any deal to a skeptical Congress. Despite those and other obstacles, negotiators appear increasingly likely to clinch an historic deal to restrict Iran’s nuclear program for at least a decade…
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News Is Chuck Schumer Waffling on Iran Nuclear Deal?
If you thought you knew where Chuck Schumer, the powerful U.S. senator from New York, stood on the impeding nuclear deal with Iran, think again. “The decision about Iran is one of the most serious I’ve had to make,” he told activists from the Orthodox Union who gathered on Capitol Hill on June 3 for…
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Opinion Why Right-Wingers Are So Angry That Israel Hasn’t Bombed Iran Yet
Amid all the fuss over Treasury Secretary Jack Lew getting heckled at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York on June 7, you might have missed the day’s biggest bombshell. I refer to the nasty smackdown that morning between Post columnist Caroline Glick, the poison-pen darling of the pro-Israel far right, and two of the…
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Fast Forward Did Israel Launch Cyberattack on Iran Nuclear Talks Hotels
Three European hotels that hosted the Iran nuclear talks reportedly were targeted by a computer virus widely believed to be used as spyware by Israel. Each of the unnamed hotels was targeted by a version of the Duqu virus about two weeks before hosting the negotiations between Iran and world powers, The Wall Street Journal…
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Fast Forward Israel Voices Concern Over Gulf Arms Race
Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon voiced concern on Tuesday that Washington’s supply of advanced arms to Gulf Arab states to deter Iran could eventually challenge Israel’s U.S.-backed regional military supremacy. “Even if there are not now any hostile designs (among them) against us, as we know in the Middle East intentions are liable to change….
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