The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby group long seen as one of the most powerful organizations in Washington, is blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in March for the imminent passage of the Iran deal.
Students members of Iran’s Basij Resistance Force – a volunteer militia operating under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – took part in flag burning activities outside the former US embassy in Tehran yesterday. Despite what is being billed as a ‘thawing’ of
Donald Trump is denouncing President Barack Obama’s giveaway deal with Iran, following the announcement by Democrats that they have enough votes in the Senate to block any Senate pushback. “It’s time for a real negotiator,” Trump declares in a new
On Wednesday, Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) became the 34th Democrat in the U.S. Senate to support the Iran deal, handing President Barack Obama a veto-proof majority. In so doing, Mikulski drove the final nail into the coffin of the pro-Israel lobby.
The United States Chamber of Commerce, America’s most powerful pro-business lobbying organization, has refused to engage in the battle of ideas over the Iranian nuclear deal.
One possible reason for Clinton’s eager embrace of the Iran deal may have been the e-mail scandal that unfolded as the details of the accord emerged.
Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens launched an uncharacteristically vicious attack against Donald Trump and the voters who support him on Tuesday, calling Trump a “demagogue” who appeals to the “vulgarians” among us.
On Tuesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, former Vice President Dick Cheney took aim at President Barack Obama by declaring that he didn’t recognize American exceptional and that his belief broke ranks with former Democratic presidents. “He
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday that the U.S. is still the “Great Satan,” regardless of the nuclear deal struck with Americans and world powers over the Islamic Republic’s contested nuclear program.
Barely a week since the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond reopened the British Embassy in Iran, a Foreign Office spokesman has slammed a senior Iranian official for his country’s anti-Israel stance. Just a week ago, Mr Hammond said Iran’s President Rouhani indicated a “more nuanced
As the fateful vote on the Iran deal draws nearer in Congress, support is building for an idea first proposed at Breitbart News: use the states to maintain existing sanctions on Iran, and add new ones.
An estimated 200 people came out Sunday evening to a rally calling for opposition to the Iran deal currently being considered in the U.S. Congress. The event followed a midday briefing that drew over 150.
More than 150 people attended a roundtable briefing on Sunday under the heading: “Stop Iran Now: We only have until September 17th to DEMAND a better deal.”
As a growing number of Democrats declare their support for the Iran deal, not one of them has criticized the way it was done.
Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) says he is still undecided about how he will vote on the controversial Iran deal. However, Becerra is under strong pressure from members of left-leaning groups such as Moveon.org and Peace Action.
Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) will vote for the nuclear Iran deal. In a late Thursday op-ed for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Peters wrote, “the JCPOA is our best tool to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon for at least
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, this week published an op-ed in Politico warning Congress that if they reject the Iran nuclear deal, America would be isolated on the world stage and lose the crux of its influence.
The real blame rests not with Corker, but with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who failed to defend the constitutional prerogatives of the Senate. He should have warned at the outset that if Obama failed to submit the Iran deal as a treaty as required, it would be dead–period.
Has there ever been a more spectacular performance of Republican “Failure Theater” than the Iran deal? Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who long ago made it impossible for Congress to stop the deal, now comes forth to tell us Congress probably can’t stop the Iran deal, even as public opposition soars into solid majority territory, and more Democrats stage their own little Failure Theater sideshows of “conscience.”
Pressuring Congress as its September vote approaches, President Obama says it is pure folly to think a better nuclear agreement with Iran can be negotiated. He is absolutely right. This deal is the best we can do—unless a new team
Activists and concerned citizens on both sides of the Iran Deal stood outside of Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu’s office on Tuesday.
A plethora of radical American academics have signed onto a letter drafted by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) encouraging Congress to adopt the nuclear accord with Iran.
Nearly 200 retired U.S. generals and admirals have signed an open letter opposing the Iran deal and urging Congress to reject the “defective” agreement.
San Diego-area U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA) announced her support for the Iran deal Wednesday in an op-ed published by the San Diego Union-Tribune that will run in Thursday’s print edition.
Thousands are expected to demonstrate on Capitol Hill on September 9 for the March to Save America, a rally to show opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal.
At noon on Wednesday, Iran nuclear deal “progressives” have planned to gather at the San Diego office of Representative Scott Peters (D-CA) in an attempt to persuade him from indecision to support for the deal, despite calls from Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA) to oppose the deal.
Republicans in Congress plan new sanctions against Iran even if the Iran deal passes, according to a new report by Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View.
The world’s nuclear watch dog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says it is strapped for cash and needs at least $10 million to carry out the critical monitoring required of them in the Iranian nuclear deal.
“We are united in saying that the negotiated deal on balance is good, that any available alternatives are worse, and that Congress killing the deal would be a tragic mistake,” wrote 98 Hollywood Jews in L.A.’s edition of the Jewish Journal a few weeks ago.
President Barack Obama’s political allies are questioning the text of a “side deal” between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by the Associated Press this week.
Former Indiana Senator Richard G. Lugar became the first high profile Republican this week to endorse President Obama’s hugely controversial nuclear deal with Iran’s revolutionary Islamic government.
Among the many foreign policy disasters for which President Barack Obama has been responsible, none is uglier than the recent Cuba deal. We are less safe because of Iran, Russia, and ISIS, But the Cuba deal has made us less free.
A new report from the Associated Press alleges that the UN gave up inspection control of a suspicious military site in Iran, allowing Iran to inspect its own suspected nuclear site.
J Street U, the campus wing of the larger J Street organization, has elected a Muslim student, Amna Farooqi, as president of its national board, according to reports in Haaretz and the Times of Israel.
GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke exclusively to Breitbart News about his first visit to Israel as an official presidential candidate. He met with Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and spoke with Israelis about the Iranian deal that is currently awaiting Congressional approval.
Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, responded to news that a side deal between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will allow Iran to use its own experts, instead of international inspectors, to test potential nuclear sites.
President Barack Obama insisted in a speech Aug. 5 that the Iran deal “doesn’t require trust,” because it “verifies” Iranian compliance. Now, that claim has been destroyed, thanks to an Associated Press report confirming that Iran will be testing a suspected nuclear site on its own.
The Reform Jewish movement, the liberal denomination that represents a plurality of American Jews, has declined to endorse, or oppose, the Iran deal.
GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee met with Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) announced on Tuesday that he is not supporting President Obama’s Iran deal, becoming the second Democratic Senator to do so, joining Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in refuting the accord.
