Welcome to the Forward’s coverage on the Iran Nuclear Deal. Here you can find plenty of information, old and new, on the 2015 agreement that eased sanctions on Iran to keep Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. President Trump pulled out…
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Opinion Look Inside Iran Is Invaluable Journalism — With Limits
What a fascinating report by Larry Cohler-Esses! I commend him for his persistence, against the odds, in seeking the chance to return to Iran as a reporter for the Forward, more than 35 years after his last encounter with the country. And I applaud the Forward for supporting his successful effort to gain entry —…
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News Fact-Checking the Flame Throwers on Both Sides of Iran Deal
The rift between President Obama and many leaders of the organized Jewish community over the Iranian nuclear deal is out in the open. Beyond policy differences, both sides carry personal grievances. This became evident during Obama’s White House meeting August 4 with Jewish leaders, where much of the two-hour session was devoted to mutual accusations…
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News A Jewish Journalist’s Exclusive Look Inside Iran
Pasagardae, Iran —— In the heart of Fars Province on Iran’s high desert plateau in the South, a stark and bare large limestone tomb juts out of the landscape. It’s in the middle of nowhere. But the understated burial place of Cyrus the Great still draws Iranians on pilgrimage. Mohammad Parvi, a retired sugarcane factory worker,…
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Opinion Why We Sent a Reporter to Iran
In September 2013, the Forward’s Larry Cohler-Esses attended an 80-minute press conference called by the new president of Iran. Listening to Hassan Rouhani among a large gaggle of reporters just near the United Nations is not how Larry usually spends his work hours. As the assistant managing editor for news, Larry assigns and edits stories,…
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Breaking News Michael Bloomberg Says Obama Defense of Iran Deal ‘Doesn’t Make Sense’
Michael Bloomberg said President Barack Obama’s arguments in defense of the Iran nuclear deal are simplistic. “Overstating the case for the agreement belies the gravity of the issue and does more to breed distrust than win support,” the former New York mayor, now reinstalled at the helm of his media empire, said Tuesday in a…
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Breaking News Reuven Rivlin to GOP Congressmen: Israel Will Defend Itself Against Iran
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told a delegation of visiting Republican Congress members that Israel “can and will do all that is necessary to defend itself” in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal. “Along with Israelis on all sides of the political spectrum, I am deeply concerned about the recent nuclear deal signed with Iran,”…
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Breaking News 29 Top U.S. Scientists Praise Iran Nuclear Deal in Letter to Obama
Twenty-nine top U.S. scientists praised the Iran nuclear deal in a letter to President Barack Obama. Signers of the letter, which was sent Friday, include high-level nuclear scientists, physicists and Nobel laureates, The New York Times reported. Among them are Richard Garwin, a physicist who helped design the world’s first hydrogen bomb and a Washington…
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Breaking News Brad Sherman Is 6th Jewish Democrat to Oppose Iran Deal
Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said he will oppose the Iran deal, the sixth Jewish Democrat in Congress to come out against the nuclear agreement. Sherman, a senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, joins Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the committee’s senior Democrat, Ted Deutch, D-Fla., the senior Democrat on its Middle…
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