Late last month, several Middle East policy experts–including prominent former Obama administration officials–warned that negotiations with Iran were heading in the wrong direction. “The agreement will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons capability,” they said, and warned that the terms would “fall short of meeting the administration’s own standard of a ‘good’ agreement.” They suggested that any Iran deal would have to cover five crucial elements–each of which, they suggested, were lacking in the emerging terms of the agreement.
by Joel B. Pollak14 Jul 2015, 5:25 PM PST0
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said the Iran deal announced Tuesday was “another heaping dose of false hope.” which is almost certain to be a historic mistake that could have deadly consequences.
by Alex Swoyer14 Jul 2015, 4:48 PM PST0
Secretary of State John Kerry has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction to the Iran deal “way over the top,” even as others in the region have chimed in with their own criticisms of the deal, the Times of Israel reports.
by Joel B. Pollak14 Jul 2015, 11:21 AM PST0
Arabic speakers around the world have taken to Twitter to congratulate Iran on their historic nuclear deal with the United States. Using the hashtag for “Nucleal Deal” in Arabic script, many are seeing the victory as one for Shia Islam generally against the infidel West.
by Mary Chastain14 Jul 2015, 9:59 AM PST0
“A careful review of the 100-plus pages is in order to fully understand the lengths to which the negotiators were willing to stoop to secure a deal at any cost with the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and a regime dedicated in word and deed to bringing Death to America,” Dr. Ben Carson’s statement reads.
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Jul 2015, 8:24 AM PST0
When world powers reached a provisional deal with Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Obama White House released a “fact sheet” to sell the deal to the American public. Iran disputed the details at the time, and indeed the final deal is significantly worse than Obama advertised.
by Joel B. Pollak14 Jul 2015, 8:03 AM PST0
On CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Monday, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), also the former House Intelligence Committee chairman, explained to host Wolf Blitzer why the Iran nuclear deal, which was announced Tuesday, would have portions that would have to
by Jeff Poor14 Jul 2015, 7:35 AM PST0
GOP presidential candidates are slamming the Obama Administration’s deal with Iran that was announced Tuesday. The deal now goes to Congress which has 60 days to review and either approve or reject the final deal with Iran.
by Alex Swoyer14 Jul 2015, 7:19 AM PST0
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said in reaction to the nuclear deal the Obama administration announced this morning with Iran “There’s a lot of anger” in Israel and “many capitals in the Arab
by Pam Key14 Jul 2015, 7:16 AM PST0
In defending the nuclear deal reached with Iran in Vienna today, President Barack Obama said that the agreement cut off Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon. In fact, it does the opposite. The deal makes it far easier for Iran to develop nuclear weapons for four basic reasons. First, it allows Iran to continue hiding much of its nuclear research. Second, its main restrictions last for only eight years. Third, it lets Iran continue developing ballistic missiles. And third, it provides billions of dollars in sanctions relief that Iran will use to further its nuclear aims.
by Joel B. Pollak14 Jul 2015, 6:49 AM PST0
As Breitbart News reported, world leaders announced the deal from Vienna on Tuesday. The 159-page deal drops all financial and economic sanctions against Iran, and imposes a special dispute resolution process before the United States or European Union can impose any new sanctions. Iran agreed to limits on its nuclear enrichment activities for eight years, its stockpile of enriched uranium, and its research and development efforts.
by Sarah Rumpf14 Jul 2015, 6:30 AM PST0
Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, reacted to the nuclear deal reached with Iran in Vienna on Tuesday morning by warning that the terms of the deal violated the conditions laid down by 367 members of Congress in a letter earlier this year.
by Joel B. Pollak14 Jul 2015, 6:20 AM PST0
On Tuesday, world powers reached a nuclear agreement with Iran after nearly two years of intense talks, and a decade of confrontation. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the deal, and threatened to veto any attempt to stop it. The Iranian regime, too, celebrated it as a victory for diplomacy. Israel, meanwhile, panned a “terrible deal” and a “mistake of historic proportions.” So who is right?
by Joel B. Pollak14 Jul 2015, 5:36 AM PST0
The Associated Press reports that world powers will announce a formal deal with Iran in Vienna on Monday. Though there are still minor details to be finalized, the two diplomats who spoke to the AP confirmed that a deal will be reached, though they “cautioned that final details of the pact were still being worked out and a formal agreement still awaits a review from the capitals of the seven nations at the talks.”
by Joel B. Pollak12 Jul 2015, 8:14 AM PST0
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an angry warning Sunday about an impending nuclear deal between the world’s major powers and Iran, as negotiators drew close to a final agreement on Sunday. “We will not pay the price for this,” Netanyahu said, in a statement recalling the manner in which the West had abandoned Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime at the Munich negotiations in 1938.
by Joel B. Pollak12 Jul 2015, 5:13 AM PST0
GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee released a new campaign video that highlights the threat of a nuclear Iran. It encourages Americans to sign Huckabee’s open letter to Secretary John Kerry.
by Alex Swoyer10 Jul 2015, 9:56 AM PST0
Diplomats at nuclear talks in Vienna failed to reach an expected deal on Friday, as Iran balked at signing an agreement with the Western powers on “Quds Day,” an annual day of virulent protest against the U.S. and Israel that the Iranian regime stages throughout the world.
by Joel B. Pollak10 Jul 2015, 6:26 AM PST0
A source at the international nuclear talks in Vienna indicates that a deal with Iran is likely on Friday, probably due to a U.S. collapse on a new Iranian demand that an international arms embargo be lifted as part of the deal.
by Joel B. Pollak9 Jul 2015, 6:13 AM PST0
A convicted felon who went to federal prison in 2006-7 is leading a White-House backed effort to lobby Congress to pass whatever nuclear deal emerges from ongoing talks with Iran in Vienna. Robert Creamer, who served time for fraud and tax charges, and who is married to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), is coordinating pro-Iran efforts through the liberal Ploughshares group, which held a conference call with President Barack Obama’s aides earlier this week, as reported by Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon.
by Joel B. Pollak8 Jul 2015, 4:53 AM PST0
As the list of Western concessions to the Iranian regime continues to grow, Iran is demanding the lifting of a worldwide arms embargo as a condition of any nuclear deal. Thus far, the U.S. is resisting, but Russia and China have already agreed in part.
by Joel B. Pollak6 Jul 2015, 10:48 PM PST0
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Western powers had “collapsed” to nearly every single Iranian demand so far in the nuclear talks.
by Joel B. Pollak5 Jul 2015, 5:44 AM PST0
In a video message posted to YouTube on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif expressed optimism that the United States and Iran would reach a deal on the rogue nation’s nuclear program, as talks have been extended until July 7.
by Jeff Poor3 Jul 2015, 12:49 PM PST0
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes–who lacks any prior qualifications for the post–has explained to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Monday that the administration believes that a bad Iran deal is worth doing because political reform inside the Iranian regime is more likely with the deal than without. Or, to use Rhodes’s own words: “We believe that the kiss of the nuke deal will turn the Iranian frog into a handsome prince.”
by Joel B. Pollak1 Jul 2015, 6:21 AM PST0
Although a June 30 deadline was agreed upon by all parties as part of the P5+1 nuclear talks with the Iranian regime, officials announced Tuesday that July 7 is now the official deadline for a final agreement.
by Jordan Schachtel30 Jun 2015, 4:14 PM PST0
Several former advisers to President Barack Obama have rejected the likely terms of a nuclear deal with Iran, adding their names to an open letter that declares: “The agreement will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons capability.”
by Joel B. Pollak24 Jun 2015, 9:17 PM PST0
