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Vice President Mike Pence. Credit: Simon Edelman/Energy Department.

At Warsaw summit, Pence calls on EU to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday urged European Union nations to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord and stop attempting to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Speaking at the Mideast summit in Warsaw, Pence said...
U.S. President Donald Trump with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman during their meeting on March 14, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

Trump’s dangerous diplomatic gambit

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This week’s Warsaw summit was supposed to be about rallying the world against the threat that Iran poses to international peace. But given the complete lack of interest on the part of either America’s...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the official opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The five biggest American Jewish news stories of 2018

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From triumph to tragedy, 2018 was a busy year for American Jewry. Take a look at what JNS is naming the top five stories of the year. 1. Pittsburgh synagogue massacre  In the deadliest attack in American Jewish...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the U.N. Security Council on Dec. 12, 2018, regarding the Iranian threat. Credit: Screenshot.

Pompeo slams UN: ‘The level of accountability on Iran has diminished’

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday for not holding Iran accountable for testing ballistic missiles, thereby violating Security Council resolutions. “Since 2006, this Council has been telling Iran...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) and Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, at a meeting on implementing the Iran nuclear deal Sept. 22, 2016, in New York. Credit: U.N. Photo/Amanda Voisard.

The lethal error in appeasing Iran

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When the Obama-brokered Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015, one of the many spurious reasons offered for that agreement was that it would help the supposedly moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani draw the...
E.U. High Representative Federica Mogherini with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif before P5+1 nations resume nuclear talks in Switzerland in 2015. Credit: U.S. State Department.

The European Union’s utopian approach to Iran

Europe’s attitude towards Iran, particularly with respect to the 2015 nuclear deal (the JCPOA) and related ballistic issues, is hard to understand. A collective desire to defy the US, which pulled out of the...
2018 Volkswagen e-Golf photographed in Canada inside the 2018 Montréal International Auto Show. Credit: Bull-Doser/Wikimedia Commons.

Volkwagen to cease doing business in Iran, boosting US economic sanctions

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The United States has convinced Volkswagen AG to comply with sanctions on Iran and cease conducting most business in the regime, a U.S. official told Bloomberg news. The Trump administration and the German automotive firm ironed out...
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. Credit: Annika Haas via Flickr.

EU Foreign Ministers review work done to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran

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VIENNA —The Iran nuclear agreement and Middle East stability are on top of the agenda of an informal meeting of European Union Foreign Ministers hosted Thursday by the Austrian EU presidency in Vienna. In remarks...
The International Court of Justice in The Hague. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Iran appeals to International Court of Justice over renewed sanctions imposed by America

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Iran asked the International Court of Justice on Monday to lift the sanctions that were reimposed by the United States on Aug. 7, calling the move “naked economic aggression.” U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from...
The Iran nuclear program’s heavy-water reactor at Arak and Syrian President Bashar Assad. Credit: Roosewelt Pinheiro/ABr and Nanking2012 via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran, Syria sign military deal, amid other moves to defy US

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Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami announced on Monday that his country and Syria have signed an agreement to rebuild the latter’s military. This comes as Iran has been looking to defy U.S. sanctions that...