Yemen’s internationally-recognized president has decreed that armed groups fighting against Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen merge with his national army units in an apparent effort to bring ground forces on his side together.
An Iranian nuclear official announced on Thursday that the country plans to build two new nuclear power plants in the country’s southeast, just two weeks after a nuclear deal was signed between world powers (United States, UK, France, China, Russia) and the Ayatollah’s regime in Tehran.
Louisiana Governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal argued that fellow candidate Ted Cruz’s comments that the Iran deal “will make the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism” were not “helpful” and that “those of us that have been opposed
In a Wednesday presentation on the weakness of the Iranian nuclear deal, Dore Gold, who serves as the Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, referred to Sunni Arab nations in the region as “allies” of the Jewish state.
Recently thawed relations between the U.S. and Iran are pushing Saudi Arabia to turn away from their western ally and into the arms of Russia and China. The U.S.-led nuclear accords with Iran have proven to be a major catalyst for this.
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), appearing on Chad Hasty’s radio program in Texas, hammered former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush over their weakness when it comes to standing up to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio predicted that under the Iran deal, the country will go nuclear and “We won’t be able to do anything about it” on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “On the Record.”
Iran has stopped funding the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, according to a senior Hamas official. Financial aid from Iran has “greatly helped the resistance in Palestine; without this assistance it will be hard for us to cope,” Hamas’s Moussa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel reports.
Secretary of State John Kerry revealed this week that he will skip Israel on his forthcoming visit to the Middle East, a development some have pointed to as a sign that relations between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu-led Israeli government continue to deteriorate.
Secretary Kerry of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz stated that they had not read the text of the side deals with Iran and that Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman “may have” before the Senate Armed Services Committee
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and current Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University Adm. James Stavridis (Ret.) said the verification regime of the Iran deal “is starting to roughly resemble Swiss cheese” and “the entire
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that Iran has not changed its behavior since the nuclear deal was agreed to, and he has “no reason to foresee” Iran’s behavior changing in the future before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. Carter, in
Bahraini officials are accusing Iran of providing the weaponry used Tuesday during a deadly terror attack that killed two policeman in the archipelago nation.
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Republican members of the House made headlines for grilling Secretary of State John Kerry on the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, but Democrat Rep. Ted Deutch landed a solid punch by noting the Administration is absurdly downplaying how much damage Iran can do with all the money Obama wants to give them, long before they detonate a nuclear bomb.
Internet security is becoming a major geopolitical issue. This year, Israel’s government established a national authority to help oversee protection of computer systems with sensitive civilian and military information. According to SiliconValley.com, Israel could be the first nation in the world to define mandatory cyberdefense steps for financial institutions.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg, who worked during the Carter and Clinton administrations, most recently as US Ambassador to Morocco, stated, “Secretary Kerry’s beginning to sound like a used car salesman, who’s not revealing when’s beneath the chassis of the car” in his
Last week, Congress kicked off hearings for its 60-day review of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Despite Administration assurances—given even before the agreement was concluded—Congress would have this review time, Obama rushed the deal to judgment at the U.N. to bind the U.S. internationally before congressional review could be undertaken.
Secretary of State John Kerry told members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs today that Iran possessing a nuclear weapon would not make it a nuclear-armed nation, because “a country doesn’t think of itself as nuclear armed with only one nuclear bomb.”
Former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said that he doesn’t think President Obama likes Israel on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. Huckabee defended his comments that President Obama trusting Iran “will take the Israelis and
New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie argued that some Republicans were catering to big business on in the issue of border security on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Christie said the lack of border security
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz stated that President Obama didn’t dispute the substance of his criticism of the Iran deal, but rather, just lobbed attacks on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Cruz “with president Obama
The United States has “flexibility” when it comes to engaging North Korea and its nuclear weapons program, as shown by its willingness to seal an accord with Iran, the US Envoy tasked with re-engaging the Hermit Kingdom said Monday in Seoul, South Korea.
Columnists George Will and Charles Krauthammer said that Republican presidential Mike Huckabee’s comments about the Iran deal should have been worded differently, but agreed with Huckabee on some of the substance of his arguments on Monday’s “Special Report” on the
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews declared that Iran isn’t an existential threat to the US, even under “the wildest, worst thought, hellish predictions” on Monday. Matthews stated, “In the wildest, worst thought, hellish predictions, Iran’s not a threat to the United
