By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Biden administration doesn’t have a clue,” tweeted the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Moreover, Iran has offered to help Russia evade sanctions with both countries having collaborated with China to increase diplomatic, economic and defense cooperation, noted the letter.
The motion states that Congress would support the JCPOA only if it includes provisions to address Iran’s ballistic-missile program; support for terrorism; and evasion of sanctions by individuals, entities and vessels in the trade of petroleum products with China.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel is “organizing and preparing for the day after, in all dimensions..."
Failed negotiations will convince European allies of Iranian noncompliance, leading to sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Shapiro served as ambassador to Israel during the Obama administration from 2011 to 2017. Shapiro will split his time working from the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and the U.S. State Department.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s “greatest threat is the existential threat posed by Iran’s efforts to arm itself with nuclear weapons, whether to threaten us directly – with atomic weapons – with the destruction of a small state, or to threaten us with tens of thousands of missiles or a great many missiles backed by a nuclear umbrella."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Another issue to be discussed: the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a larger $23 billion arms deal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Maximum Pressure Act would require Senate approval for any new deal between the United States and Iran.
“The administration will be questioned or criticized by some Democrats on the Hill, but it will move forward just as in 2015, without regard to their worries," said Elliott Abrams, former U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela and Iran in the Trump administration
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A treaty is different in that it requires congressional approval under Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
Jerusalem believes that Washington is dashing toward a deal with Tehran and that the most it can do is mitigate the circumstances.
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Iranian nuclear program “a challenge we have to tackle immediately,” says U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price.
The gruesome assassinations of Iranian writers, intellectuals, activists and scholars who opposed the theocratic regime of the Mullahs.
Watch President Trump's Statement on the JCPOA here.
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Trump took a swipe at Kerry's "shadow diplomacy" on the Iran Deal.
"This district is literally Ground Zero and our representative supported the Iran Deal? Is no one paying attention," Rosenthal queries.
U.S. says Iran's banking system is a major money laundering operation, so US is giving it access to US dollars. Huh?
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According to US law, there’s a huge difference between tapping foreigners, even very friendly ones, like Netanyahu, and tapping US elected officials without their knowledge.
State Dept. experts wanted to demote Oman for its record on human trafficking, but Kerry's advisers blocked the report to keep its ally on the same page for the Iran deal.
The National Jewish Democratic Council dumped its staff and outsourced its activities to a p.r. firm.
Kerry welcomed decision to stop investigating whether Iran's past nuclear weapons activity included a military component.
Iran lied and is still lying about its nuclear activity and the U.S. smiles and moves to lift sanctions.
Bibi covered all the bases - Obama, the right-wing American Enterprise, the Federations and a liberal group.
Obama and Netanyahu spoke of shared views and 'narrow differences' at their White House meeting.
Kerry and Zarif hold joint press conference - Kerry eager to please and Zarif solely focused on the prize.
US Iran Deal supporters are fine with Iran, without any oversight, choosing own samples for analysis
Neither Iran nor any other party has signed the 'Iran Deal.' There is no enforceable agreement.
Ballistic missiles testing not banned by JCPOA and snapback sanctions relief to be given to Russia, China and Europe.
The responses will surprise you.
The President now feels comfortable meeting with the Prime Minister at the UN after winning the battle to keep Congress from turning down the agreement with a veto-proof majority.
The House passed a Resolution to block the Iran Deal because the 60 day review period has not yet begun.
Can Cardin's bill to tighten the Iran Deal gain traction or is it just cover for waiting so long to commit?
Bebb, a member of the British Conservative Friends of Israel, also predicted the nuclear deal will lead to a nuclear arms race.
Booker and two more Senators announced their support for the Nuclear Iran Deal today.
Sen. Cotton sounds confident there is much more that can be done to protect us all from the Nuclear Iran Deal.
Three Reps and two Senators announced their support for the Nuclear Iran Deal.
He says he still has not made up his mind but that Obama will win the magic number of 34 to override a veto.
THThree NYC Cong. Ds from heavily Jewish districts defied constituents, announcing support for Nuclear Iran Deal.
Obama knows how to capitalize on the bulk of American Jews, who want Israel to be a nice Jewish boy that doesn’t make them feel uncomfortable President Barack Obama declared that American Jews' concerns are like those of Afro-Americans and other Americans, indicating that Israel is not one of those worries. He unsurprisingly chose the left-wing […]
“It cannot be that in one moment of diplomacy, the reality is changed so completely."
Oregon's Jeff Merkley announced he is backing the nuclear deal, leaving Obama only three shy of a veto-proof majority.
Iranian President Rouhani said Saturday the parliament should not vote on the nuclear deal so that it will not become a legal obligation.
He will arrive Sunday and will be "updated on strategic issues," meaning Iran.
A report by the entity responsible for ensuring the peaceful development of nuclear energy worldwide and the one upon which the world depends for monitoring Iran's nuclear activity revealed that over the past few months Iran has been working on and adding to a building at its Parchin site. Parchin is an Iranian military complex located southeast of Tehran. It […]
Politicians always remember you when they need you, and no one remembers better than President Barack Obama.
Tehran has not yet accepted Ramallah's requests to accept a visit, three years after Abbas rejected an overture from Ahmadinejad.
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The Obama-P5+1 deal with Iran has no provisions against Hezbollah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Maryland's Senators have not yet decided whether or not to join Schumer and Menendez and vote against ObamaDeal.
340 American rabbis announced they support the Nuclear Iran deal and want members of Congress to approve it.
'As written, this Agreement gives Iran leverage it currently doesn't have,' Senator Flake (R-AZ) said about the Nuclear Iran deal.
Beware of counting your "no" votes on the Nuclear Iran Deal until they are actually cast.
Hastings is 11th D in Congress vowing to vote no; he wants military option at the ready if it goes through.
Swiss to lift ban on transport of Iranian crude oil and other sanctions beginning Thursday.
Bay Area grass roots effort against the Iran deal is a model for similar initiatives nationwide.
Cong. Brad Sherman will vote no on the Iran deal and wants to make sure it won't bind future Presidents or Congresses.
Important New York legislators came out against the Iran Nuclear Deal: Senator Chuck Schumer and Cong. Eliot Engel.
The leaky inspections regimen in the JCPOA led the AJCongress to oppose the agreement.
Yesterday's count had four Congressional Democrats coming out against the Iran Nuclear Deal. But since yesterday, that number has nearly doubled. And, amazingly, the latest three are all Jewish members of Congress. That's a surprise because in their effort to appear impartial, many Jews in public office bend over backwards to avoid the appearance that they are […]
"Keep or Cheat," under this deal Iran will attain nuclear weapons, Bibi warned.
New York Democratic Congresswoman Kathleen Rice will vote against the Iran deal.
Americans oppose the Iran deal, and only a slight majority of Democrats support it.
RJC Demands Obama stop demonizing Jews for opposing the Iran deal.
Former liberal Democratic New York Congressman Gar Ackerman has come out four-square against the nuclear deal with Iran, Ackerman, who was New York City's 7th District Congressman for 30 years until 2013 and is 72 years old, has joined the advisory board of Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran. He stated Friday: While I have […]
Cong. Albio Sires of New Jersey is the third Democrat so far to come out against the JCPOA because it won't bar Iran from becoming a nuclear state
State Dept. claims Congress is "looped in," but IAEA head refuse to testify at Senate hearings.
Saudi Arabia may buy $5.4 billion worth of PAC-3 missiles as part of an effort by the Obama to soothe Riyadh's anger over the nuclear agreement with Iran. The State Dept. approved the Lockheed missile sale, which also would be another plum for the military-industrial complex. Lockheed stated, “Lockheed Martin is supporting the US government […]
California Democratic Congressman will vote against Iran deal because it fails to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear threshold state.
The Prime Minister said that the procedures for inspections are "full of holes."
Rabbis will appeal to Congressmen, especially the Jews, immediately before the Rosh HaShanah New Year.
Growing opposition to the nuclear agreement could break the back of "uncertain" Democrats in Congress.
Dore Gold pointed out to American Jewish Leaders that Israel and Sunni Muslims agree on Iran.
Jackie Mason now is at least the second Jew backing Trump, but in 2011 he called him a "professional liar" and a "sick man."
President Obama has not responded to the tweets.
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There are 188 Democrats in the House and 44 in the Senate, and over the next two months millions of dollars and unprecedented lobbying efforts will be invested in courting their votes on the Iran nuclear deal.
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Kerry said: “Never — this is a term that honestly I never heard in the four years that we were negotiating. It was not on the table.”
"ObamaDeal" has thrown the Arab League the perfect pitch to swing out at Israel.
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Jon Stewart will interview President Obama for the last time on next Tuesday’s “Daily Show.” It will be Obama’s seventh appearance on Stewart’s show, third as president.
Obama will explain that all of the anti-Israel and anti-American hate are only a quaint Iranian tradition.
Israel needs U.S. B-52 bombers that can carry bunker buster bombs, says Dr. Ehud Eilam.
The US refused to condition ObamaDeal on Iran's stopping its threat to destroy Israel. State Dept.: "That’s a question for Iran’s leaders."
During Obama's sales pitch for the Iran deal, he lost his place, lost his temper and lost an opportunity.
He called it as "glorious victory," which he hopes will give Iran more money to keep him alive.
He should have said, "Judge me on whether the deal fuels Iran's aggression."
Naftali Bennett, Education Minister and chairman of the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party, called today's agreement with Iran "grave and dangerous.” “Western citizens who get up for another day at work or school, are not aware of the fact that about half a trillion dollars has been transferred to the hands of a terrorist superpower, […]
For the hope of Iran to be able to obtain a nuclear weapon and threatened Israel and the entire Middle East?
An announcement of an agreement is expected at 11:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. EDT).
Report: Kerry will sign a "bad deal" as Iranian media prepare the public for a "good deal"
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the demerging deal between the P5+1 powers and Iran is so bad that it actually will help and not prevent Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Speaking at the annual ceremony in memory of Theodor Herzl, the Prime Minister stated: Iran, the leading patron of terrorism in the […]
The President believes J Street's boast that the left-wing group speaks for American Jewry.
The European Union explains the deadline is not being extended. Negotiators simply are continuing to negotiate. Huh?
Reporter Laura Rozen: "How many ways can I say significant progress made but important differences remain?"
Kerry spent the Fourth of July talking with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Remind Sen. Chuck Schumer that he said any deal with Iran must include "anywhere, anytime" inspections.
The United States and the other P5+1 powers unsurprisingly have extended the June 30 deadline for reaching an agreement to supervise and limit Iran's nuclear development program. The extension is for one week, until July 7. As The JewishPress.com reported here earlier this week, "deadline" has a different meaning in the Muslim Middle East than […]
Obama seems to have fallen into the old trap of appointing people who tell him what he wants to hear.
Lockheed-Martin is studying an Israel request for a longer flight range that would make refueling easier.
The White House denies the Yediot Achronot report, and Netanyahu's office has no comment.
Rumors are flying that Khamenei's days are numbered. Hard-liners are outdoing each other to ditch a deal on its nuclear program.
Capability to attack with a nuclear weapon imam even be important than being able to produce a nuke.