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Congress overwhelmingly passes nuclear deal review bill

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Deb Reichmann May 14, 2015 Congress on Thursday sent President Barack Obama a bill to give lawmakers the power to review and potentially reject a nuclear deal with Iran. The House overwhelmingly passed the measure, 400-25, … Continue reading

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The odds of an Iran nuclear deal just got higher

Ed Lasky: Jan Schakowsky-led effort will make a (bad) Iran deal more likely; it all but gives the Iranian regime and the White House an all-clear WASHINGTON POST by Greg Sargent May 7, 2015 One hundred and fifty House Democrats have … Continue reading

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The President Daydreams on Iran

WALL STREET JOURNAL by Mortimer Zuckerman April 25, 2015 Anyone who looks at the nuclear deal and sees success is living in a world of rainbows and unicorns. I’m always chasing rainbows, watching clouds drifting by / My schemes are … Continue reading

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The Tectonic Shift in Obama’s Iran Policy

MOSAIC by Michael Doran April 22, 2015 A nuclear deal is only the beginning. The president’s goal, at the expense of America’s allies [i.e. Israel], is full-fledged détente with Iran ….If the gap between the two sides was this big, what … Continue reading

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Obama Kept Iran’s Short Breakout Time a Secret

Now we know the Israeli assessment was correct, and the U.S. public assessment was disinformation. BLOOMBERG by Eli Lake April 21, 2015 The Barack Obama administration has estimated for years that Iran was at most three months away from enriching enough … Continue reading

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To win broad U.S. Jewish support, Obama must truly tackle Iran

HAARETZ by Rabbi Eric Yoffie April 8, 2015 Eric Yoffie was past president of the Union for Reform Judaism. Not to state the obvious, but the writer presumes the President actually cares (at this point) to win broad Jewish support. Yoffie also … Continue reading

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The unfolding farce of Obama’s deal with Iran

TIMES OF ISRAEL by David Horovitz April 8, 2015 The president didn’t sign a bad framework deal with the ayatollahs. He left it unsigned, open to ever more worrying interpretation ….Unsurprisingly, Iran was not required to acknowledge its nuclear weaponization … Continue reading

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Iran’s Persian statement on ‘deal’ contradicts Obama’s claims

NEW YORK POST by Amir Taheri April 4, 2015 “Iran Agrees to Detailed Nuclear Outline,” The New York Times headline claimed on Friday. That found an echo in the Washington Post headline of the same day: “Iran agrees to nuclear … Continue reading

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Etiquette Versus Annihilation

TOWN HALL by Thomas Sowell April 1, 2015 Clearing the way for Iran to get nuclear bombs may — probably will — be the most catastrophic decision in human history. …It is amazing — indeed, staggering — that so few … Continue reading

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Iranian Defector: ‘U.S. Negotiating Team Mainly There to Speak on Iran’s Behalf’

WEEKLY STANDARD by Daniel Halper March 28, 2015 An Iranian journalist writing about the nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran has defected. In an interview Amir Hossein Motaghi, has some harsh words for his native Iran. He also … Continue reading

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