With a happy Iran at the negotiating table and plenty of reasons to take the spotlight off health care, the Obama administration now seeks to tie the hands of political opponents by limiting spending by tax-exempt groups with political messages.
That’s the question Micah Zenko poses at Foreign Policy. It’s partly a rhetorical question meant to highlight a perceived double standard in how Israel’s nuclear program is treated differently from Iran’s–a double standard that isn’t really one at all, since
The president who promised us that his health care legislation would allow us to keep our insurance plans and doctors now insists that his agreement with Iran will not allow it to keep a nuclear-weapons program. What the two pledges
At Foreign Affairs, Kenneth Pollack makes the best case possible for the Iran nuclear deal: while imperfect, it is merely an interim deal that will establish trust as a basis for a more comprehensive deal going forward. If that is
An interesting new theory is gaining traction about President Barack Obama’s motives in the Iran nuclear deal, which not only allows Iran to retain nuclear enrichment but also effectively legitimizes the regime and boosts it as a regional power. On
While the West curried favor with Iran by indulging them in their pursuit of nuclear weapon with the new agreement signed over the weekend, Iran sent missile technicians to North Korea to join in development of a new rocket booster
In a video posted by JP Updates, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday evening at OHEL’s 44th annual gala:
Ben Rhodes, the Deputy National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama, advised Israel in a televised interview not to attack Iran. While acknowledging Israel’s independent right to self-defense, Rhodes–who rose inexplicably from speechwriter to the highest levels of foreign and
On Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard news agency FARS released a statement from the Foreign Ministry denouncing the version of the Iranian nuclear deal released by the Obama administration on Sunday. “What has been released by the website of the
Last week, the Times of Israel reported that senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett had been leading talks with Iran in secret for a year before the formal negotiations in Geneva this month. While the White House denied the report “100
In response to Couldn’t Obama have asked Iran to release its American hostages before he capitulated on nukes?: Twitchy calls the White House statement expressing a commitment to bring Mr. Levinson home, “the worst timing ever”, given the fact that
In the wake of the deal reached in Geneva on Sunday on Iran’s nuclear program, much of the media’s initial excitement has given way to glum recognition that the agreement is little more than appeasement, inviting comparisons to the infamous
The Hollywood community rallied on behalf of then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008 despite the politician’s lack of credentials. The proof he could heal the partisan divide and deliver on his lofty promises existed only in the minds of his starry-eyed
A majority of Israelis have no faith in the weekend agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 nations. A poll published in Israel Hayom shows that 76.4 percent of Israelis “[do] not believe Iran will halt its nuclear program” as
(AP) Former hostages react to Iran’s nuclear dealBy MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated PressMcLEAN, Va.A nuclear deal between the U.S., Iran and other world powers has been described as a trust-building step after decades of animosity that hopefully will lead to a more
Nuclear weapons provide such a great strategic advantage, even if never used, that nations that come close to developing them can almost never be persuaded to back down. Whether enemy or ally, most nations on the threshold of becoming a
(AP) Obama pushes back against critics of Iran dealBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONPushing back hard, President Barack Obama forcefully defended the temporary agreement to freeze Iran’s disputed nuclear program on Monday, declaring that the United States “cannot close the
(AP) Senators writing new sanctions in case Iran cheatsBy BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated PressWASHINGTONLeading Democratic and Republican senators are crafting legislation to reinstate the full force of sanctions and impose new ones if Iran doesn’t make good on its pledge to roll
The Associated Press and Al-Monitor kept US-Iran nuclear containment talks secret until after they had reached their conclusion this past weekend. The AP claims they didn’t run with the story because they couldn’t get the White House or State Department
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Jubilation in Tehran over Iran’s nuclear deal Pakistan’s Imran Khan blockades supplies to Nato in Afghanistan Jubilation in Tehran over Iran’s nuclear deal Jubilant Iranians holding posters of president Hassan Rouhani welcome the return
In response to Critics of Nuke Deal Full of ‘Tough Talk and Bluster’ According To Obama: Obama’s really going to hate the tough talk and bluster from Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal, who compares the Iran deal unfavorably
According to the wisest members of the left, including President Obama, the new deal with Iran will stifle Iran’s nuclear program. President Obama pledged, in his Saturday night address to the nation, that “we have halted the progress of the
President Barack Obama’s controversial deal easing sanctions on Iran is causing new rifts among Senate Democrats in a caucus struggling to hold itself together in the wake of the Obamacare fiasco. Democrats in the upper chamber who usually are unified
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has just praised Obama’s “successful diplomacy” deal with Iran, saying that it was the framework for stopping the “development of a nuclear weapon.” But has Wasserman Schultz always been willing to ease sanctions with Iran, or
During the election year of 2008, Republicans were full of “tough talk and bluster” as they warned Obama that his plan to negotiate with rogue regime’s like Iran was a very bad idea. John McCain put out a press release
