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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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