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China Is Behind the Nuclear Program in Iran. And North Korea. And Pakistan.
In November, immediately after the announcement that Iran had reached a deal with Western negotiators concerning its nuclear program, China’s former ambassador to Tehran, Hua Liming, made the case that...
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The Simple Math of an Iranian Nuclear Bomb
No single threat to Israeli—and perhaps global—security has generated as much controversy in the last decade as Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian officials insist the program is peaceful. International...
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Why a Pact With Iran Throws Arab Liberals Under a Bus
Democracy, freedom, self-determination, human and individual rights are values that Arab liberals like myself thought we shared with the United States. That’s what you told us. For years, we’ve...
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Why Did Obama Send a Lowly Vice-Presidential Adviser To Inform American...
Almost as soon as the White House reached the nuclear framework agreement with Iran, it began sending out senior administration officials to brief domestic allies and rivals in order to sell the deal....
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Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Could be Catastrophic for Israel
In a recent issue of National Interest, former CIA analyst Paul Pillar lamented “the near-obligatory reference to Nazis in any anti-agreement writing about Iran.” The comparison, he argues, is “an...
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What Iran Will Buy With Obama’s $50 Billion
U.S. administration officials are still defending the nuclear deal by assuring us that Iran will only use the $50 billion “signing bonus” they expect to receive on the country’s internal needs. No...
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Why Is Obama Abandoning 70 Years of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy?
As the June 30 deadline for striking a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran looms, discussions quickly get bogged down in debates about numbers and types of centrifuges, schedules for sanctions relief,...
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How Obama and Israel Changed the Stakes of Jewish Power
Last week an issue that has simmered for some time in private conversations burst out into the open—in a very unpleasant way. At the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on June 7, Treasury Secretary...
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The Jewish Perspective on Nuclear Weapons—and Deterrence
Is the world on the cusp of a new nuclear arms race that will add several new nuclear powers to the international landscape? This is the gloomy projection of many analysts in the wake of the projected...
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Obama’s Unicorn Deal With Iran: The White House's Current Approach to the...
The White House will not, as many critics have charged, accept a bad deal in its current negotiations with Iran here in Vienna. “We know that myth is wrong because we’ve had the opportunity to do that...
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Iran Wins Big-Time in Vienna
“I’m here until I have a deal in my hands,” Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif just said here in Vienna. “I think we can do it.” What Zarif is really saying is that during his one-day trip to Tehran,...
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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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