Both Westmacott and German ambassador Peter Wittig warned that if the U.S. Congress blocked a deal by not enabling sanctions relief to take place, the international sanctions regime would collapse.
Iran's U.N. ambassador, a senior military officer and the regime's media masterfully changed recent comments from Moshe Ya'alon to rouse the rabble.
The closer we get to June 30, the more Iran makes the "deadline for a deal look useless.
Pentagon insists "we will take back" a key Iraqi city, but that might come at the price of handing over Iraq to Iran.
Iran tried to buy UN-banned products in the Czech Republic but was caught and stopped, Reuters reports exclusively.
Iran caught red-handed trying to purchase equipment to pursue nuclear weaponization.
Iranian National Guards ships fired on Singapore-flagged ship sailing in international waters
Saudi Arabian officials are warning the US, that they will match Iran's nuclear arsenal buildup.
Tehran also insists inspection of military sites will not happen.
SWC leadership calls on P5+1 to condemn Iran's threats to annihilate Israel. *crickets*
By Shalom Bear
Iran's clients and proxies use schools and hospitals to launch their attacks. The UN criticizes the other side for fighting back.
Netanyahu tackled Obama with a speech in Congress. King Salman simply insults him with a royal snub.
Almost the entire Arab Middle East sees Iran as an enemy.
Congress is doing Obama a favor by showing Iran it cannot get away with murder.
Official tell CNN North Korea has capacity to reach American soil. U.S. bases in S. Korea in danger.
Maersk is to pay a fine, putting an end to another US-Iranian mini-crisis.
"Yes, Iran didn’t keep economic agreements, but a nuclear deal is different." Why? Well, because it’s different.
"They already have paved a path to a bomb’s worth of material."
The Prime Minister spoke by video to the conference where Joe Biden said, "We have Israel's back."
There is a new American-Israeli peace process between Netanyahu and Obama.
The Arkansas Republican called the foreign minister a "coward."
How many Democrats, especially the Jewish ones, would vote against the idea that Iran recognizes Israel?
The senior officer added that Hamas is trying to rebuild thousands of feet of terror tunnels running underground in Gaza by creating bypasses in the segments destroyed by the IDF.
The 24-man crew is in good condition but confined to the ship
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Netanyahu said, repeating the mistakes made with North Korea, this time with Iran, is a great historic blunder.
Chairman Corker and Ranking Member Ben Cardin are busy keeping "poison pills at bay that could jeopardize Democratic support and the White House's reluctant pledge to sign the bill."
The EU's foreign policy chief is pushing Iran to play a major - but productive! - role in the Syrian civil war negotiations.
State Dept: "It’s a key concern of the United States to ensure that sea lanes in the region remain open and safe."
U.S. officials have acknowledged that Iran-supported Shiite violence in Iraq and Yemen has been influencing the talks between the U.S. and Iran on the latter's nuclear program
Senators want Iran to recognize Israel, release Jason Rezaian and for the President to certify Iran isn't targeting US citizens...
The airstrip, 10 miles from the Syrian border, could be used for UAV missions against Syrian rebels. Israel also is in range.
Kremlin says the lifting of the ban on selling the anti-missile systems to Iran was only a "political and legal decision."
By Shalom Bear
Despite Clinton's agreement, North Korea now has 20 nukes, and as many as 40 next year. It's a foreboding look ahead at Iran.
“The real source of threat is the United States of America, which creates insecurity through its interference in domestic and internal issues of other countries in the region and faces no inhibitory forces,” Khamenei told military leaders in Tehran.
Forget about Israel, doesn't Brandeis care about Iran's abysmal human rights record?
if Iran tries to move a Russian s-300 antimissile system to Syria or Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel will make sure it doesn't get there.
"Sexual violence in conflict has become a weapon of choice because it is cheap, silent and effective."
Obama figures he can deal with Iran by letting it humiliate him.
Obama to maintain phased-in sanctions relief pegged to compliance; he'll give Iran a huge signing bonus instead!
In the past, both Russia and Israel stopped their weapons sales to avoid excess friction between the countries. Not anymore.
This could be a lead-up to a joint ground operation in Yemen against the Iranian backed Houthis.
Some American Jews continue lobbying Obama to more aggressively undermine Israel
No other source has confirmed the report.
Israel, for good reason, is just about the only nation on Earth that understands the results of appeasing evil.
The US is removing Cuba from list of state sponsors of terrorism. But Cuba's recent BFF, Iran, doesn't have such a clean record.
Congressional oversight of Iran bill unanimously passes Committee, President no longer threatens veto.
With latest compromises, Congressional oversight of Iran deal believed to be solidly veto-proof.
Bar-Ilan University released the research report the evening before Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Kerry clinched the deal, expresses "concern" over sale of S-300 missiles but says it won’t affect a final agreement.
Russia gives Iran a bear hug and also gives Israel another reason to show Obama that the "deal" is worse than bad.
Netanyahu is hoping Obama will finally hear his recommendations if he posts them on YouTube, since Obama is claiming he doesn't hear them at all.
While Obama chooses to ignore Netanyahu's criticisms, Israel's leftwing Herzog and Livni warn about the same exact gaping holes in Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
Days after Netanyahu has outlined an alternative to the Iran deal. Obama says, "I have yet to obtain a good answer."
Someone's confused. It's just not clear who that is.
Ayatollah Khameini: sanctions must be lifted immediately and no monitoring of military sites. That means there is no agreement.
Speaking at Iran's Nuclear Technology Day, Rouhani made his Red Line clear.
Obama proves once again that Netanyahu is smarter than he is.
Who said Iran and Israel can’t agree to anything? The Islamic Republic's Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said on Iranian television, "It would be better not to reach an agreement that to have a bad deal," the Hebrew-language Maariv website reported. Sound familiar? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been saying all along that "no deal is […]
State Dept. spokeswoman Harf says their comments are nothing more than "big words and big thoughts.
Pelosi will fight the legislation, but not all Democrats are with her on this...
The destruction of arch-enemy Israel has long been a declared goal of the regime in Tehran, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a leading critic of the P5+1-Iran agreement.
By Shalom Bear
It appears Iran is telegraphing its intended breaches of the agreement in advance.
The State Department tried to walk back Obama's statements yesterday, when he accidentally told the truth about the Iran deal.
Schumer puts a nail in the Iran deal coffin: 'Congress must be allowed to disapprove it.'
He assures the USA will defend Israel if is attacked, assuming there is anything left to defend.
Labor Secretary-General Eitan Cabel said the bad Iran deal is a non-partisan issue for Israel, and he is kept up nights worrying about it.
Iran already is threatening to rip up the deal if Obama does not annul all sanctions forever.
Tehran is preparing for the day that Hamas and Hezbollah can bombard Israel with thousands of missiles from the north and south.
"Monitors cannot work effectively with an authoritarian regime."
State Dept. says asking Iran to state it does not want to destroy Israel would only complicate matters.
By Ben Cohen
The Middle East has rapidly changed for the worse the past five years. The worst may be yet come.
If Iran blocks Bab-el-Mandeb, it would be an economic nuclear bomb for Egypt.
The Iran nuclear deal allows continued uranium enrichment, a bunkered centrifuge center and no snap inspections. Lucky Iran.
Netanyahu is not wasting any time to start a public relations campaign aimed at Congress to scuttle the deal with Iran.
Obama said he told Netanyahu Iran won't get the bomb. Netanyahu to Obama: The deal would not block Iran's path to the bomb. It would pave it.
Obama updated Netanyahu on Iran nuclear deal.
Zarif has made Obama's March 31 deadline look just like his November 2014 deadline.
The big deal about talks with Iran extending past the March 31 headline has been offset by a bit of curios from Associate Press reporter Matt Lee. After discovering that in Iran it really is not 2015, he tweeted, "P5+1 negotiators discover it is only the year 1394 in the Persian calendar; #Iran nuclear talks […]
Sixty-five years after a group of Arab nations signed a mutual defense treaty whose primary target was the newly-reestablished state of Israel, Arab leaders agreed Sunday to activate it by setting up a joint military force. The move comes amid spreading Islamic extremism and Iranian muscle-flexing in the region. The in-principle decision was made at […]
As Iranian general calls for Israel's destruction, P5+1 talks on concessions to Iran continue.
Obama finally stops punishing Egypt for overthrowing the Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi
Talks are likely to extend beyond Obama's self-imposed deadline that he had said he won’t change.
The Iranian regime is hard up for propaganda, but maybe it is prophesying the future.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continued to lash out at a possible "bad deal" with Iran Monday and said, "The agreement being formulated in Lausanne sends a message that there is no price for aggression and on the contrary – that Iran's aggression is to be rewarded." Netanyahu said in a statement: The moderate and responsible […]
Lausanne has become the center stage of act that would put the world's best novelist or Broadway producer to shame.
Inspections of Iranian nuclear sites won't uncover possible nuclear activity in North Korea, or even China.
Iran suddenly refuses to transfer its already enriched uranium, despite prior agreement.
The Prime Minister told the Cabinet the deal in the works is even worse than feared.
Don’t expect Iran to sign anything before the last minute, if not afterwards, and if at all.
“The US negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal.”
Saudi Arabia withdraws personnel from Aden. Iran calls Saudi strike a "strategic mistake."
"The tone of #US officials' background comments on #Iran talks is getting progressively more dreary, like the weather in #Lausanne," Associate Press reporter Matt Lee tweeted Saturday night. Lee is a veteran journalist who has a keen eye and ear that cuts through the double talk and dishonest smiling faces of American diplomats. If he […]
It is a long tradition in the Muslim world never to agree to anything at an agreed time.
The non-binding vote approves funds for imposing sanctions if Iran violates a deal.
Congress is 'fed up' with being left in the dark on the Iran negotiations
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he supports Saudi Arabia's attack on Iranian-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen Saudi Arabia has been joined by other oil-rich states, including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the Gulf States, all of whom said that "they "have decided to answer the call of President Hadi to protect Yemen and his […]
The former US envoy to the United Nations writes in the NY Times that bombing Iran is the only way to stop a nuclear arms race.
Sunni countries in the Gulf have been accusing Iran of interference through several Shi'ite proxies in the region.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has consulted with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in preparation for a resumption of negotiations Wednesday with the P5+1 towards reaching an interim agreement before the end of the month on Tehran's nuclear program. Russia is a member of the P5+1 but also has a vested interest in Iran's […]
Obama is furious, not over alleged Israel's spying on nuclear talks but that it used the information to influence Congress.