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Breaking News Stormy Iran Debate Looms as Senate Republicans Seek Tougher Bill
The U.S. Senate could plunge into a heated debate on legislation giving Congress the power to review a nuclear deal with Iran as soon as Wednesday, as some Republicans sought to change the bill to take a harder line on any agreement. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 19-0 last week for a compromise version…
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Breaking News Biden Tells Iran Not To Expect Instant Sanctions Relief
An Iran nuclear deal will not include substantial sanctions relief at the front end, Vice President Joe Biden said. “If at the front end they expect there to be total sanction relief or significant sanction relief, there will be no deal,” Biden said in an address in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday to a Democratic political…
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Opinion On Iran, a Divide That Goes Beyond Bibi and Obama
In the mid-1990s, pundits noticed an incipient breakdown in the known world order. For centuries international affairs consisted of relationships among nation-states, in an arrangement dating back to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Now, suddenly, it wasn’t working. The primary culprit was the rise of so-called nonstate actors — transnational entities capable of defying…
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Breaking News President Obama Says Deal Should Let Iran Save Face on Sanctions
President Barack Obama said a solution on sanctions would have to allow Iran’s leaders to present an “acceptable” version to their public. Obama was asked at a news conference Friday what his position was on phasing out sanctions as part of a nuclear deal with Iran that would exchange sanctions relief for restrictions aimed at…
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Breaking News President Obama Agrees To Sign ‘Reasonable’ Compromise With Congress on Iran
President Barack Obama said on Friday a bill allowing Congress to review a deal concerning Iran’s nuclear program was a “reasonable compromise” he planned to sign, and he expressed confidence it would not derail talks with Tehran. Obama told a White House news conference that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Bob Corker and the…
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Breaking News Congress Makes Iran Deal Tougher — Not Impossible
(Reuters) — A compromise allowing the U.S. Congress to vote on a nuclear deal with Tehran may prompt Iranian negotiators to drive a harder bargain, but does not drastically weaken President Barack Obama’s ability to deliver on a final agreement. For months Obama resisted attempts led by Republicans and some Democrats to open an agreement…
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Breaking News Iran Insists Congress Won’t Derail Nuclear Deal
Iran said on Wednesday it would only accept a deal over its contested nuclear program if world powers simultaneously lifted all sanctions imposed on it. The comments by President Hassan Rouhani came the day after U.S. President Barack Obama was forced to give Congress a say in any future accord – including the right to…
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Breaking News Israel Happy With Congress Push To Get Vote on Iran Nuclear Deal
Israel is pleased at a compromise deal on Iran achieved between the United States Congress and the administration of President Barack Obama, Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Wednesday. In what was seen as a setback for Obama, the U.S. president agreed on Tuesday that Congress should have the power to review a nuclear…
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