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Fast Forward House Extends Iran Sanctions — Could Let Donald Trump Scrap Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives approved an extension for 10 years of Iran sanctions, including many currently under waiver as part of the Iran nuclear deal, a move that could pave the way for President-elect Donald Trump to pull out of the deal. The bill approved late Tuesday by the House simply extends…
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Fast Forward Trump Aides Give Mixed Messages on Jerusalem Embassy Move — and Iran Deal
— Advisors to president elect Donald Trump issued conflicting statements on whether he will keep his campaign pledge to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Walid Phares, a senior foreign policy advisor to president elect Donald Trump, said during an interview for the BBC Thursday that, “Many president of the…
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Fast Forward Iran Says It Has ‘Options’ If Donald Trump Seeks To Scrap Nuclear Deal
Iran wants all parties to stick to an international nuclear deal but has options if that does not happen, its foreign minister said on Thursday after the U.S. election victory of Donald Trump, who has vowed to pull out of the pact. “Of course Iran’s options are not limited but our hope and our desire…
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Fast Forward ANALYSIS: Will Donald Trump Win Kill Iran Nuclear Deal?
Donald Trump’s election as president raises the prospect the United States will pull out of the nuclear pact it signed last year with Iran, alienating Washington from its allies and potentially freeing Iran to act on its ambitions. Outgoing President Barack Obama’s administration touted the deal, a legacy foreign policy achievement, as a way to…
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Opinion WATCH: Iranian Goes To Extreme Lengths To Avoid Stepping On Israeli, U.S. Flags
Need a little something hopeful to break our tense political mood right now? Look no further than this video of Iranian scholar Sadegh Zibakalam. A well-known professor at the University of Tehran, the 68-year-old is seen performing some very unique physical and political gymnastics as he enters a building at another university. Even as everyone…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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Fast Forward Congress May Push for New Iran Sanctions After Election Day
The Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday. The act, which expires on Dec. 31, is one of the major pieces of unfinished business facing lawmakers when they return to Washington on…
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Fast Forward Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Colombian President — Iran Nuclear Dealmakers Rebuffed
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist rebels, a surpise choice after Colombians voted against the accord in a referendum. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Santos had brought one of the longest civil wars in modern history significantly closer…
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