Tag: Iran Nuclear Deal
Why Israel should embrace its role as a regional power
In the classic British satire “The Mouse That Roared,” a tiny, fictional nation declares war on the United States, not with the hope of winning, but in order to lose and receive generous post-war...
Zarif reportedly out as Iranian vice president
Mohammad Javad Zarif reportedly submitted his resignation as vice president to Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian after an unnamed, senior regime official told him to do so.
Pezeshkian received the resignation letter but has yet to...
Iranian foreign minister: Oct. 7 created ‘shift of balance’ against ‘Zionists’
Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel shifted the balance in the Middle East “in favor of the resistance,” interim Iranian foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani said on Tuesday in his first interview with a U.S....
Overlooked synergies: Iranian nuclear weapons and a Palestinian State
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
Though generally examined as unrelated perils, Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Palestinian statehood represent more than separate threats to Israel. Considered together, these threats,...
Iranian lawmaker: We might already have a nuclear bomb
Iran might already possess a nuclear bomb, a lawmaker close to the regime said over the weekend, amid public threats by officials in Tehran to weaponize the country’s atomic program, Iran International reported.
Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, who...
Tehran trying to revive nuclear talks with US
Iran is in contact with the Biden administration about restarting moribund talks on a new nuclear agreement amid a direct military confrontation between Tehran and U.S. ally Israel, the dpa German news agency reported on Sunday,...
Three years of Biden’s Iran appeasement are not so easily undone
It is to be hoped that three days of U.S. strikes on targets associated with Iranian-backed terror groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen will be sufficient. After months of gradually escalating chaos unleashed by...
Who lost the battle to stop Iran’s nuclear quest?
Iran has been in the news lately for a number of reasons. One is the Biden administration’s latest instance of appeasement of the Islamist regime in which it paid $6 billion in frozen funds to it...
Longtime Israel ally, Iran-nuclear deal foe Menendez being pushed to resign
Sen. Robert “Bob” Menendez (D-N.J.), a longtime supporter of Israel and critic of the Iran nuclear deal, is facing widespread calls for his resignation following charges from the U.S. attorney’s office that he accepted...
US State Department to brief lawmakers on suspension of Iran envoy Malley
Details remain sketchy, but Robert Malley confirmed at the beginning of the month that the U.S. State Department had suspended him from his role as special envoy for Iran.
Malley, who as an undergraduate penned a 1980 Yale...