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News The U.S. and Iran both want to revive the nuclear deal. So why the saber-rattling from Iran?
President-elect Joe Biden said Wednesday that he wants to revive the nuclear deal with Iran passed during the Obama administration, when he was vice-president. Yet the same day Biden said he wanted to revive the deal, the Iranian parliament passed a law demanding that he, well, revive the deal. In other words, they demanded angrily…
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Fast Forward Trump considered lame-duck strike on Iran nuclear site after learning stockpile had grown
U.S. President Donald Trump considered striking Iran’s nuclear capabilities in his last weeks in office, but senior advisers said he shouldn’t do it. According to a report from the New York Times, U.S. officials told Trump that Iran’s nuclear material stockpile had grown, citing a United Nations watchdog group. The stockpile had gotten 12 times…
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Opinion The Last Thing Netanyahu Wants Is A War With Iran
The US-Iran confrontation in the Persian Gulf is escalating day by day. President Trump’s cautious reservations about the use of American military force in the Middle East—perhaps the only sound strategic pronouncement he has consistently made since before being elected in November 2016—are one factor militating against war. But there are other factors at work…
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Fast Forward Warren And Sanders Among 2020 Democratic Candidates Who Would Rejoin Iran Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five Democratic presidential candidates said they would reenter the Iran nuclear deal that President Donald Trump abandoned last year. Al-Monitor, a Middle East news site, solicited the Democratic candidates about whether they would rejoin the deal. The five who said they would are Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris,…
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Fast Forward Cory Booker’s Old Pal Rabbi Shmuley Uses Presidential Bid To Scold About Israel
In an extended selfie video posted hours after Senator Cory Booker announced his 2020 presidential bid, Booker’s old buddy Rabbi Shmuley Boteach warned that the New Jersey senator shouldn’t forget his pro-Israel friends. Boteach said that Booker’s support for the Iran deal was a betrayal, and charged that there had been a “gradual erosion” of…
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Fast Forward White House Says ‘All’ Iran Sanctions Will Be Reimposed, With Exceptions
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump White House on Friday announced that “all the sanctions” relieved under the 2015 Iran deal would be reimposed, but top Trump officials were simultaneously listing caveats. “On November 5, 2018, all United States sanctions that were lifted under the disastrous Iran nuclear deal will be fully reimposed,” the White House…
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Fast Forward Trump: Iran Will See ‘Consequences Few Have Suffered’ If It Threatens U.S.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a late-night all-caps tweet, President Donald Trump warned Iranian president Hassan Rouhani of “consequences few have suffered” if he threatens the United States. To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE…
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Community Why Aren’t American Jews Supporting Iranian Protestors?
Nearly two-and-a-half years ago, a large segment of Jewish leaders and activists across the United States came out in strong support of the Iran deal. They believed the deal would help improve the lives of the people of Iran who were suffering economically, and help bring about reform in Iran for average Iranians. As a…
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