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Andrea Mitchell Questions John Kerry on Ability to Get Final Deal

Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Mitchell asked Kerry about Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who has publicly denounced the four-page framework put out by the White House. Mitchell asked Kerry about Zarif’s unwillingness to even do a joint

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Dem Rep Engel: Iran Deal ‘Mixed Bag of Tricks’

Friday on MSNBC’s “NewsNation,” Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) said President Barack Obama’s Iranian nuclear program deal is a “mixed bag of tricks” that Congress has to decide if the United States is “better off with it or without it. Engel

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Hillary Clinton Backs Iran Nuke Deal

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has come out in support of Thursday’s deal with Iran, but she also hedged her bets a bit, saying, “the devil is always in the details.”

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Obama Likens Iran Deal to Historic Nixon, Reagan Arms Deals

Thursday from the White House Rose Garden, President Barack Obama made a statement on the framework of a potential deal for limiting the Iranian nuclear program reached by world leaders. In arguing the deal will make the world safer, Obama

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Dem Senator on Iran Deal: ‘Early Indicators Not Encouraging’

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Christopher Coons (D-DL) said the fact the United States can’t even coordinate with Iran and the European Union on how to announce the proposed Iran deal means “the early indicators are not encouraging.”

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Ben Carson on Iran: ‘We Must Take a Leadership Role’

In a teleforum Tuesday night, Dr. Ben Carson addressed the Obama Administration’s negotiations with Iran. “It is important to know facts, you know we’re looking at Iran, for instance, and apparently negotiations going on with the administration – but I’m not sure it’s taking into account all the things Iran has not been doing.”

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The Geopolitics of Oil Go Round and Round

Many complicated factors contribute to the global price of a barrel of oil, but two of the leading components are supply and risk—and both have the potential to escalate in the days ahead.

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AFP: Iran Deal Reached in Switzerland

The news agency Agence France-Presse reports from Lausanne, Switzerland that Iran and the P5+1 powers (the five UN Security Council permanent members, plus Germany) have reached “provisional agreement” on the terms of nuclear deal.

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Yemen Houthis Loot U.S. Counterterror Intel from Captured Computers

“Secret files held by Yemeni security forces that contain details of American intelligence operations in the country have been looted by Iran-backed militia leaders, exposing names of confidential informants and plans for U.S.-backed counter-terrorism strikes,” reports the L.A. Times.

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Ayatollah: ‘Their Goal Is Opposite to Ours’

This weekend, as the Obama administration continued to stress the importance of reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader continued to tweet—in English, no less—that Iran would never abide by a deal to the benefit of the United States.