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Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia
Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone (FIZ), waiting for customs authorities to clear their cargo and for FIZ personnel to prepare new papers. Within...
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Has Obama Administration Become Iran's Lawyer? A Dispatch From the Nuclear...
The smart money here in Vienna is on the likelihood of a nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran being finalized at any moment. Maybe it will happen today with the White House showing the good manners...
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Iran’s Nixonian Anti-Semitism, and What It Means for the Nuke Deal
Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has said that he asked for the publication of his book to be moved up specifically so it would intervene in the debate over the Obama Administration’s proposed...
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Iran and World Powers Agree to Nuclear Arms Deal
After an 18-day negotiation, a nuclear deal has been struck between Iran and 6 world powers, the so-called P5+1, led by the United States and Secretary of State John Kerry, who have reportedly won the...
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The Iran Deal and a Cold War Flashback
One paragraph in President Barack Obama’s initial speech on the Iran deal was superb, and, though he buried it near the end, it was and is the crucial paragraph—the one paragraph that may turn out to...
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Guess Who's Receiving 'Get Out of Jail, Free' Cards in the Nuclear Deal?
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that the Obama administration and its P5+1 partners struck with Iran Tuesday morning includes a long list of entities and individuals who will no longer be under...
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Trinity 2015: The Nuclear Age Began 70 Years Ago Today
One of history’s most important dividing lines was etched in a remote and desolate part of New Mexico exactly 70 years ago today, and the world knew nothing about it at the time. Ask most people when...
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Iran Is Nazi Germany. Or the Soviet Union. Or Neither?
The resort to historical analogies is neither sinful nor stupid intrinsically. It’s human. As the excellent Vietnam historian Fredrik Logevall said in a January lecture: There is a deep-seated human...
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Obama Blows His Jewish Dogwhistle On 'The Daily Show' With Jon Stewart
Last night, Barack Obama took to The Daily Show With Jon Stewart to promote the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that the White House, along with its P5+1 negotiating partners, signed with Iran...
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A Guide for the Perplexed: Thomas R. Pickering Explains the Iran Nuclear...
This agreement is arguably the most important and the most complex of this century. It treats with widespread concerns about Iran’s nuclear program. It resolves a serious nonproliferation problem for...
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The White House Continues Its Jew-baiting Campaign With the Reported Release...
This time around, it wasn’t a dog-whistle. John Kerry came out and said it outright: if the Iran deal gets blocked by Congress, Israel will be to blame. Apparently, Kerry sees it like this: the only...
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What Information Collected by Israeli Intelligence Reveals About the Iran-Talks
On Nov. 26, 2013, three days after the signing of the interim agreement (JPOA) between the powers and Iran, the Iranian delegation returned home to report to their government. According to information...
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In Cheeky Video, Celebs Urge Support for Iran Nuclear Arms Deal
On Tuesday an organization called Global Zero, or an “international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons,” published a video with a slew of celebrities who ultimately urge viewers to...
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The Most Famous Casualty of Obama’s Nuclear Deal Could Ultimately Be Hassan...
Current wisdom is that the nuclear deal will strengthen moderates within Iran, who will be seen as having delivered on their promise to strike a deal with the United States and deliver the country from...
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With Iran Deal Under Review, the Obama Administration Tries to Bait Three...
And now The New York Times is playing its role in the Obama administration’s Iran deal smear campaign. On Sunday, the paper of record charged that Republican congressmen and senators opposed to the...
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Obama to Jewish Leaders in Private D.C. Meeting: Lay Off the Iran Deal, and I...
On Tuesday, President Obama met with Jewish community leaders at the White House for two and a half hours to explain the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Agreement. “He spent 45 minutes, laying out deal,...
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New York Senator Chuck Schumer Comes Out Against Iran Deal
Last night, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the expected next Democratic Senate leader, announced his opposition to the recently-struck Iran deal. The move came as a major blow to persistent efforts by...
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Crossing a Line to Sell a Deal
Chuck Schumer is a politician—a skilled and successful one. Which means that today’s announcement, following months of wildly uncharacteristic silence, that the senior senator from New York is opposing...
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Walter Russell Mead on the Strategic Impact of the Iran Deal
The following is the testimony delivered by Walter Russell Mead (Editor-at-Large of The American Interest, Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, and scholar in American...
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Duss and Gitlin Respond to Tablet Editorial on the Iran Deal Sell and the Jews
In their August 7 editorial, “Crossing a Line to Sell a Deal,” Tablet’s editors accuse the White House and its allies of smearing American Jews in efforts to promote the recently inked nuclear deal...
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Lee Smith Responds to Tablet Editorial—and Duss and Gitlin—on the Iran Deal...
Tablet contributor Matthew Duss and my fellow Tablet columnist Todd Gitlin think that the editors of this publication were off-base in calling out the Obama Administration for its tactics in selling...
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How Obama's Scorched Earth Sell of the Iran Deal is Undermining it and...
President Obama will almost assuredly be able to implement his recently-concluded nuclear deal with Iran. Despite significant congressional opposition, there simply don’t appear to be enough votes to...
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Why the Anti-Defamation League's Opposition to the Iran Deal Matters (It Has...
Yesterday, the Anti-Defamation League came out against the Iran nuclear deal. In a 1,300-word statement, ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt explained that he and his organization “respect and...
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Major inspection concessions revealed as the AP reports on a secret side deal...
It’s an odd bit of news that feels akin to the type of satirical ointment The Onion would slather over the nuclear arms deal with Iran: On Wednesday, George Jahn of the AP reported on a secret side...
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Nuclear SummerSlam: Rabbi vs. Rabbi!
The WWE’s SummerSlam went down last night in Brooklyn, where a bearded Jon Stewart, the host of the event, also tipped the scales of a match by shoving a metal chair into wrestler Jon Cena’s gut. But...
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Alan Dershowitz On Bernie Sanders, BDS, J Street, and His New Book, 'The Case...
What sparked the fire to write your new book, The Case Against the Iran Deal? I’ve been very concerned about this deal and the Iranian nuclear program since 2005 when I started to write about it. I...
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What Do You Want To Hear From the President During His Iran Deal Webcast?
Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the American Jewish community on the Iran nuclear deal via a live webcast hosted by the Jewish Federation of North America and...
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Here's What Our Readers Want to Hear From the President Concerning the Iran...
Last week, Tablet asked readers and friends what they want to hear from President Obama in his live webcast to the Jewish community on Friday afternoon. We received many responses. Below are the ones...
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Iran Lobby 1, AIPAC 0
Trita Parsi, the Iranian-born émigré who moved to the United States in 2001 from Sweden, where his parents found refuge before the Islamic Revolution, should be the toast of Washington these days. As I...
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As Two Key Senators Come Out in Favor, Iran Deal is Essentially a Done Deal
This afternoon, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey and Delaware Sen. Chris Coons announced their support for the Iran accord. Unlike the vast majority of similar pronouncements that preceded them, the...
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Barbara Mikulski Becomes 34th Senator to Back Iran Deal, Ensuring its Passage
Yesterday, we reported that the Iran deal was “a done deal” after two prominent pro-Israel Senate stalwarts–Delaware’s Chris Coons and Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey–came out in support. Today, it’s...
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Did Donald Trump Help Save the Iran Deal?
With Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski’s decision to back the Iran deal, President Obama now has the 34 Senate votes he needs to keep the accord alive. Congress can send whatever it wants to the White...
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And Tonight's Headliner Is....Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz will be the headliner this Friday night at the Comedy Cellar, the storied club in Greenwich Village. That’s not a joke. But Dershowitz won’t be doing any stand-up. Instead, the Harvard...
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Iran Deal—Yay or Nay? And Are You Jewish? The New York Times Makes a List.
The Iran nuclear deal. Senselessly delayed in Congress.Continue reading "Iran Deal—Yay or Nay? And Are You Jewish? The New York Times Makes a List." at...
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Ann Coulter's 'F---ing Jews' Comment and The Degradation of American...
Ann Coulter went off the rails Wednesday night during the Republican presidential primary debate. Apparently angry that several of the candidates kept referring to Israel, Coulter tweeted: “How many...
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The White House's Press Secretary Traded Barbs About the Iran Deal with...
The White House’s Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Eric Schultz, took to Twitter today to boast about the Obama Administration’s strong-arm tactics in securing the Iran deal. After Bloomberg...
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Iran's Parliament Votes to Endorse Nuclear Deal
The Iran nuclear deal, however slowly, continues to truck along. On Tuesday, nearly three months since the P5+1 world powers (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, plus Germany)...
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Obama Licenses Iran to Ship Missiles to Hezbollah—Posing a Direct Threat to...
The logical endgame of President Obama’s Iran policy and his “roundtable” approach to Syria has always been to offer American protection for Iranian missile shipments to Hezbollah. Sounds crazy, right?...
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Hey, Obama, Israel Wants the Iran Treatment, Too!
The Obama Administration’s memorandum to the American “trade community,” issued earlier this month and prohibiting the labeling of goods produced by Israeli companies in the West Bank as having been...
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Was Iran Involved in Sept. 11? A Federal Judge Awards Victims $10.5 Billion...
On March 9, the U.S. District Court in the southern district of New York reached a default judgment ordering Iran to pay some $10 billion to the relatives of victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept....
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Will Tehran Be Given Access to the U.S. Dollar?
Although the Iran nuclear deal went into effect on January 16—“Implementation Day,” in the wonky parlance of what’s officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—it’s becoming...
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Latest Developments in the Iran Nuclear Deal
Arms-control agreements tie the earth-shattering drama of great power politics to a set of vague and highly technical obligations and tradeoffs, the larger significance of which can sometimes only be...
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Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease
Two pieces from Tablet magazine most vividly represented our rigorous attention in 2016 to the Syrian crisis, and America’s moral collapse there. This article originally appeared on September 21, 2016....
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Trump’s Iran Deal Trap: ‘Re-Negotiation’ vs. ‘Enforcement’
Forget China and underwater drones, forget Russian hacks and leaks, because it’s all a sideshow: America’s big-ticket foreign-policy issue is still the Iran deal. Donald Trump has promised to rip it up...
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No One Is Afraid of AIPAC
At first blush, at least, a Trump presidency promises everything that AIPAC, America’s largest pro-Israel lobbying group, could ever wish for. After eight years of rocky relations between Jerusalem and...
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What Obama Owes Putin—And Why Donald Trump is Left Holding the Bag
Is Donald Trump a Russian secret agent? Did he pay FSB hookers to pee on the bed the Obamas slept in at the Ritz in Moscow, overlooking the Kremlin? It’s silly season, so any drunk on a fat...
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Are North Korea and Iran Cooperating to Build Long-Range Weapons of Mass...
Iran and North Korea have long cooperated in some aspects of their missile development and probably in some aspects of their nuclear programs as well. Some of the details of this cooperation are clear,...
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How Trita Parsi and NIAC Used the White House to Advance Iran’s Agenda
In 2005, Jack Abramoff’s corruption and lobbying scandal became public. One of Abramoff’s main accomplices was Bob Ney, a former congressman from Ohio who was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Part of...
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Agreement Spreads That the Iran Deal Was a Bad Idea
“Since the Obama administration and its negotiating partners struck the deal with Iran in July 2015,” Joshua Keating recently wrote in Slate, “the Middle East’s sectarian conflicts have only become...
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America’s Cash-for-Genocide Program in Syria
Like the president he served, Ben Rhodes wanted to stop Bashar al-Assad from gassing little children. But it was complicated. In an excerpt from his new book, The World As It Is, published in The...
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