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Ted Cruz, Mika Brzezinski Spar Over Iran Letter

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended his decision to sign a letter penned by his colleague Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and signed by 46 other Republicans senators warning the Iranian regime that any deal

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Partners in Peace: Executions in Iran Are Surging

Executions are rising sharply in Iran, reaching a 12-year high in 2014, according to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council. The UN called this “deeply troubling” and further criticized Iran for not living up to promises that it would protect ethnic and religious minorities, according to a report at Voice of America News.

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Netanyahu on Eve of Elections: No Palestinian Terror State on My Watch

Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, told NRG news that there is no place for a Palestinian state in the world under current conditions, given its present leadership—making his position on the “peace process” crystal-clear just hours before Israelis are set to vote for the leadership of their next government.

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Assad: Not Interested in Talking With Kerry

Sunday, after meeting with Iranian officials in Damascus on state television, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, addressed  Secretary of State John Kerry’s “offer” to negotiate the end of their civil war, saying such statements “from outside do not concern us.” Secretary

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It’s Clear Tom Cotton Won His Battle with Obama

Even Politico, a reliably leftist media outlet that has done its best to support Barack Obama from pillar to post, is now tacitly acknowledging that hard-line Senator Tom Cotton has won his battle with the administration over the letter he authored to Iran that was signed by 46 other GOP senators.

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Kurds Claim ISIS Is Using Chemical Weapons

According to a statement from the Kurdish Regional Security Council, the Islamic State has crossed that fabled WMD “red line” by deploying chemical weapons against Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting along the Iraqi border with Syria, near the captive city of Mosul.