Tag Archives: Iran

How Iran Kept its Jews

TABLET MAG by Roya Hakakian December 30, 2014 It was with a murder that the most critical moment in the modern history of Iranian Jewry took shape. And in what followed, Tehran’s policy toward the local Jewish community, still precariously … Continue reading

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George W. Bush’s Graceful Silence

BLOOMBERG by Cass R. Sunstein December 22, 2014 In the domain of foreign affairs, 2014 has brought heated national debates on an impressive range of subjects: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Syria, Ebola, immigration policy and, most recently, torture, North Korea and … Continue reading

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Convicted Terrorist Bill Ayers to Iran Media: U.S. A ‘Terrorist Nation’

BREITBART NEWS by Jordan Schachtel December 12, 2014 Convicted terrorist and retired professor Bill Ayers sat down with Fars News, a state-controlled media outlet that serves the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he proclaimed that the United States is a … Continue reading

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US Accuses Iran of Secretly Breaching UN Nuclear Sanctions

FOREIGN POLICY by Colum Lynch December 8, 2014 The United States has privately accused Iran of going on an international shopping spree to acquire components for a heavy-water reactor that American officials have long feared could be used in the … Continue reading

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Top Dem to White House: Anti-sanctions argument ‘non-starter’

WASHINGTON EXAMINER by Susan Crabtree and Charles Hoskinson December 3, 2014 The top Senate Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee said any effort by the Obama administration to convince lawmakers not to impose new sanctions on Iran is a “non-starter.” … Continue reading

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Israel’s next army chief ‘would only strike Iran as last resort’

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Staff November 28, 2014 Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenko, named Friday night as the next IDF chief of the General Staff, firmly opposes Israeli military intervention to thwart Iran’s nuclear program unless Iran poses an immediate existential … Continue reading

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No Deal

WEEKLY STANDARD by Michael Makovsky and William Kristol December 8, 2014 So the November 24 deadline for reaching a comprehensive agreement with Iran over its nuclear program—itself an extension of an earlier deadline—has come and gone with a whimper, and … Continue reading

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69% of Americans oppose deal leaving Iran with nuclear capabilities

TIMES OF ISRAEL by David Horovitz November 25, 2014 More than two-thirds of Americans oppose a deal with Iran that would allow it to maintain nuclear weapons capabilities, according to a new survey by American political strategist Frank Luntz. Americans … Continue reading

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Iran’s no China

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick November 24, 2014 The Obama administration will never abandon its courtship of Iran. On the eve of the extended deadline in the US-led six-party talks with Iran regarding Teheran’s illicit nuclear weapons program, the one … Continue reading

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Iran nuclear talks extended, so Congress might turn up the heat

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR by Howard LaFranchi November 24, 2014 The extension of Iran nuclear talks into next summer – with the broad outlines of a deal to be reached in principal by March – would seem to put off any … Continue reading

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