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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Demands ‘Better Deal’ From Iran on Nukes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday it was not too late for world powers locked in nuclear negotiations with Iran to demand a “better deal.” He made the comments before meeting in Jerusalem with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, a leading Republican and strong critic of the White…
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Breaking News Iran Nuclear Talks Extended Amid Progress
Six world powers and Iran met again on Wednesday in a bid to reach a preliminary accord on reining in Tehran’s nuclear program, after failing to agree crucial details such as the lifting of U.N. sanctions by a midnight deadline. The negotiators ended talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne in the early morning hours….
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Breaking News Deadline Looms as Iran Nuclear Talks Still Deadlocked
With a deadline hours away, Iran and six world powers ramped up the pace on Tuesday in negotiations over a preliminary deal on Tehran’s nuclear program, while officials cautioned that any agreement clinched would likely be fragile and incomplete. For nearly a week, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China have been trying…
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Breaking News New Shmuley Boteach N.Y. Times Ad Urges Obama To Go Tough on Iran
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach published a full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling on President Obama to refrain from appeasing Iran. The ad, published Saturday by Boteach’s World Values Network foundation, comes as the United States and other world powers work to achieve an interim deal on curbing Iran’s nuclear program before a March 31…
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Breaking News As World Powers Intensify Iran Nuclear Talks, Israel Hopes for Failure
World powers intensified nuclear talks with Iran on Sunday, two days before a deadline for reaching a framework deal, but Israel expressed cautious hope the negotiations would collapse. The foreign ministers of the United States, France and Germany canceled their travel plans for the next few days so they can push for the accord that…
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Breaking News Iran Inches Toward 2-Page Nuclear Deal
Iran and major powers are close to agreeing a two- or three-page accord with specific numbers as the basis of a resolution of a 12-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, officials have told Reuters. As the French and German foreign ministers arrived in Switzerland on Saturday to join talks between U.S. Secretary of State John…
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Breaking News Israeli Officials Deny Report That Israel Spied on U.S.-Iran Talks
Israeli officials denied a report that Israel spied on closed-door talks held between the United States and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. Israel provided the inside information to Republican members of Congress in order to turn them against the deal, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday night in a story that appeared the…
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Breaking News Israel’s Steinitz Says World Powers, Iran Likely to Agree to Bad Nuclear Deal
PARIS, March 23 (Reuters) – Israel said on Monday it was probable that world powers and Iran would agree a “bad deal” on Tehran’s nuclear program and it would do all it could to toughen any accord before talks resume this week. “We think it’s going to be a bad, insufficient deal,” Strategic Affairs Minister…
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