Wall Street Journal | Trying to stop an Iran giveaway Washington Post (blog) What is striking about the announced extension of the “P5 +1″ nuclear talks with Iran is the absence of support for the president and his hapless secretary of state. It's not surprising that giving Iran another $2.8 billion in sanctions relief while ... China Imports Record Amount of Iranian Crude Iran is pushing limits on nuclear deal, former Obama advisor warns Holding Iran Accountable |
Wall Street Journal | Iraqi Leader Maliki Loses Backing of Shiite Figure and Iran for New Term Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is losing political support for his bid for a third term from core backers, including the country's Shiite religious establishment and ally Iran, say Iraqi officials. The shift, officials said, is prompting ... Why Iran Believes the Militant Group ISIS Is an American Plot US is 'legitimizing Iranian terrorism in Iraq', American scholar says |
The Economist (blog) | Iran's nuclear programme The Economist (blog) AFTER some unconvincing last-minute brinkmanship, Iran and its six world-power negotiating partners decided on July 18th to extend the deadline for an agreement by four months. They now have until November 20th to secure a deal to curb Iran's nuclear ... |
Iran extension blasted — by ex-Obama senior officials Washington Post (blog) Michael Makovsky, chief executive of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (which recently put out its Iran task force report co-authored by the president's former adviser on Iran, Dennis Ross) tells Right Turn, “The recent four-month ... |
War on the Rocks | Reagan on Iran Air 655 War on the Rocks On July 3, 1988 – during the last summer of Reagan's presidency – the USS Vincennes was in the Persian Gulf doing battle with small armed Iranian boats when it launched two missiles at a civilian airliner – Iran Air 655 – that it mistook for an ... |
New York Times | Staying the Course on Iran by Threatening Pain and Offering Relief New York Times Behind President Obama's decision on Friday to extend the Iran nuclear negotiations for four more months is a calculation that the administration has the mix of pressure and incentives just about right: That by keeping the most damaging sanctions, but ... A Doubly Dangerous Iran Iran warned of 'last chance' in nuclear talks after deadline missed Iran won't slow down on ballistic missiles: Column |
On Twitter, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei Admits to Being the Head of the Serpent ... Algemeiner The hypocrisy of it all was called out on Monday by AIPAC, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee, which asked how the U.S. and world powers could remove further economic sanctions and extend talks with Iran, “at the very moment when Hamas is ... |
BBC News | Iran completes process of eliminating enriched uranium BBC News Iran has turned all of its enriched uranium closest to the level needed to make nuclear arms into more harmless forms, the UN nuclear agency says. The conversion of its stock of 20%-enriched uranium was part of a deal to curb Iran's nuclear programme. |
Inhofe calls for return of Iran sanctions The Hill "This was all in exchange for a promise by Iran to briefly pause only its nuclear enrichment activities — meanwhile development of other key components of a nuclear weapon continue unabated. Iran is building a bomb and Obama is releasing sanctions ... |
Iran still stalling on nukes Charleston Post Courier It comes as no surprise that Iran has again slowed progress toward an agreement limiting its nuclear program to its declared peaceful purposes. Negotiations have been going on and off since 2003, and during that time Iran has moved ever closer to a ... |