Commentary Nowadays, an online search for Iran shows lots of negative news and analysis regarding the Islamic regime’s nuclear ambitions, regional mischief, missile program, and, more recently, its president-elect Ebrahim Raisi, notoriously known as “the butcher” of political prisoners in 1988. There are many unanswered questions, including how the Biden administration wishes to deal with…
Iran Says Minor Damage From June Nuclear Site Sabotage, Blames Israel
DUBAI—A sabotage attempt at an Iranian nuclear facility in June caused minor damage to a building but none to equipment, the Iranian government said on Tuesday, blaming the attack on Israel. Satellite images appearing to show that part of a roof was missing were taken while the building was under repair, government spokesman Ali Rabiei…
Iran and IAEA Extend Monitoring Deal, Averting Crisis in Nuclear Talks
VIENNA/DUBAI—Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are extending a recently expired monitoring agreement by a month, both sides said on Monday, avoiding a collapse that could have pitched wider talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal into crisis. The move gives breathing space to indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran…
Reviving Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal Means War, Not Peace
Commentary April 27 was an explosive Tuesday for the Middle East, explosive diplomatically in Vienna and Washington, but literally explosive in one incident: the drone boat attack on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea oil port of Yanbu. In Vienna, Austria, talks involving Iran, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia resumed, with the United States participating “indirectly.”…
Senior Senate Republicans Urge Biden Not to Return to the Iran Nuclear Deal
Four senior Senate Republicans called on President Joe Biden on Tuesday—the same day when the United States and Iran held indirect talks in Vienna—urging him not to return to the Iran nuclear deal and lift the sanctions. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.), leaders of several Senate…
US, Iran to Start Indirect Nuclear Talks Through European Intermediaries
The United States and Iran announced Friday that they would start indirect talks through intermediaries next week in a bid to get both countries back into an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program, nearly three years after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal. State Department spokesperson Ned Price called the resumption…
Iran Dismisses Idea of Talks With EU and US to Revive 2015 Nuclear Deal
DUBAI—Iran on Sunday ruled out holding an informal meeting with the United States and European powers to discuss ways to revive its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, insisting that Washington must lift all its unilateral sanctions. “Considering the recent actions and statements by the United States and three European powers, Iran does not consider…
Iran Starts 20 Percent Uranium Enrichment, Seizes Tanker in Strait
Iran declared on Monday that it began enriching uranium up to 20 percent at its Fordo facility and seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, amid escalating tensions in the Middle East around the anniversary of the killing of Iran’s former top general Qassem Soleimani. Iranian spokesman Ali Rabiei said that…
Sen. Cruz Urges Trump to File Paris Climate and Iran Nuclear Agreements as Treaties
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged the Trump administration Tuesday to submit both the Iran Nuclear Deal and Paris Climate Agreement to the Senate as formal treaties so that the elected representatives of the American people can fulfil their constitutional role as a check and balance. In…
Cruz Urges Trump to File Paris Climate and Iran Nuclear Agreements as Treaties
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged the Trump administration Tuesday to submit both the Iran Nuclear Deal and Paris Climate Agreement to the Senate as formal treaties in the hopes that a vote would stop them from being restored. In a letter to President Donald Trump, Cruz made the argument…
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