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Fast Forward GOP Presidential Candidates Denounce Iran Deal
Republican presidential candidates on Tuesday roundly condemned President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio suggesting he would re-introduce sanctions if elected to the White House next year. The agreement reached between Iran and six major world powers will now be debated in the U.S. Congress, but Obama said on Tuesday…
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Fast Forward Congress Fight Looms But Unlikely To Overturn Iran Deal
The nuclear deal between world powers and Iran starts a new phase of intense negotiation – this time between the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress, where some Republicans have long been working to sink an agreement. Any effort in Congress to overturn the deal will face an uphill fight. Republicans have majorities in both…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Gambles on Iran Nuclear Deal
The sealing of a nuclear pact with Iran marks the biggest foreign policy gamble of Barack Obama’s presidency – a legacy-defining achievement that could yet backfire if Tehran exploits any loopholes or escalates tensions in the Middle East. No other foreign policy challenge bears Obama’s personal stamp more than the final nuclear accord reached with…
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Fast Forward Jews Join Israel in Slamming Iran Deal
Israeli leaders, and Jewish groups condemned the final Iran nuclear deal announced Tuesday. “When you are willing to make an agreement at any cost, this is the result,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday morning, before the details were officially announced. “From the initial reports we can already conclude that this agreement is an…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Warns Congress Not To Block Iran Deal
President Barack Obama heralded a nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday as an opportunity worth seizing and warned Congress he would veto any legislation that prevented its successful implementation. Obama, speaking at the White House, said every pathway for Iran to get a nuclear weapon was cut off under the agreement. The deal was built…
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News Iran and World Powers Clinch Historic Nuclear Deal
Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East. Reaching the agreement did not bury the controversy of one of the most bitterly contested diplomatic issues of the day: the European Union called it a “sign…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Javad Zarif Closed Deal With Big Smile — and Tough Bargaining
It is hard to picture Iran’s nuclear talks with world powers without the beaming face of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who, in reaching a deal, has shown the power of what Iranians call his ‘smile diplomacy’. The 55-year old career diplomat led Iran’s negotiating team in concluding a deal with world powers in Vienna…
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Fast Forward No Deal Yet as Iran Nuclear Talks Drag On
Iran and six world powers were close to clinching an historic pact on Monday that would bring Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, but an Iranian negotiator said he could not guarantee a deal was imminent. “I cannot promise whether the remaining issues can be resolved tonight or tomorrow night….
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