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Fast Forward Barack Obama Vows To Veto Iran Congress Consent Bill
(Reuters) — President Barack Obama would veto a bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate allowing Congress to weigh in on any deal the United States and other negotiating countries reach with Iran on its nuclear capabilities, the White House said on Saturday. “The president has been clear that now is not the time for…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Basks in Anti-Semitic Lovefest in Iran
Iranian ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Dieudonne M’bala M’bala a “great artist” during a meeting in Tehran with the French comic and repeat inciter of hate against Jews. Dieudonne visited the Islamic Republic last week, the news site fararu.com reported, and presented Ahmadinejad with a golden statue of a man performing the quenelle — a gesture…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu’s Iran Exaggerations Now Clear for All To See
Say what you will, the latest intelligence leak to hit the world headlines couldn’t have come at a worse time for Benjamin Netanyahu. Just a week before the Israeli prime minister’s congressional address on the Iranian nuclear threat, a document from his own spy agency turns up and shows that his dark warnings about Iran…
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Fast Forward Argentina Judge Says No Evidence of Iran Cover-Up
(Reuters) — There is no evidence that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran’s purported involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing, an Argentine judge told Reuters in an interview on Thursday after dismissing the case. On the contrary, the evidence suggested “the government exhausted all possibilities to enable the investigation into the AMIA (Jewish community center)…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Slams Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘Judgment’ on Iran as Feud Deepens
U.S. officials on Wednesday questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judgment and said his outspoken condemnation of efforts to secure an Iranian nuclear deal had injected destructive partisanship into U.S.-Israeli relations. In an escalation of hostile exchanges between the allies six days before Netanyahu gives a speech to Congress on the threat from Iran, the…
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News Susan Rice Calls Benjamin Netanyahu Speech ‘Destructive’ — ADL Dials Back Criticism
National Security Adviser Susan Rice slammed Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech as “destructive” and more Democrats lined up against the speech even as the Anti-Defamation League dialed down its criticism. The speech is “destructive of the fabric of the relationship,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice told Charlie Rose, a TV journalist, on Tuesday. “What has happened…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Takes Veiled Swipe at Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran Nuclear Talks
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday took a veiled swipe at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying critics of an emerging nuclear deal with Iran did not know what they were talking about. Speaking to U.S. lawmakers, Kerry also said he expected to know soon whether Iran was willing to craft an “acceptable, verifiable”…
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Fast Forward Massive Diplomatic Leak Exposes Israel Claims on Iran
(Reuters) — A mass leak of South African espionage secrets will cause many foreign agencies to think twice before sharing information with Pretoria, hampering its efforts to walk a delicate diplomatic tightrope between East and West, experts said on Tuesday. Britain’s Guardian paper and Gulf TV channel Al Jazeera said they had obtained hundreds of…
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