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Breaking News President Obama Praises ‘Good Deal’ With Iran To Rein In Nuclear Program
Iran and world powers reached a framework agreement on Thursday on curbing Iran’s nuclear program for at least a decade, a step towards a comprehensive accord that could end 12 years of brinkmanship, threats and confrontation. The tentative agreement, after eight days of marathon talks in Switzerland, clears the way for talks on the future…
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Breaking News Israel Blasts Iran Deal as ‘Dangerous Capitulation’
Israel dismissed celebration of a nuclear framework deal between major powers and Iran on Thursday as detached from reality and vowed to continue lobbying to prevent a what it called a bad final agreement. Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said after the announcements in Switzerland that “the smiles in Lausanne are detached from grim reality…
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News Deal or No, Lifting Iran Sanctions May Be Easier Said Than Done
During the long negotiations over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, there’s been a lot of attention paid to the heavy water facilities and centrifuges that Iran is operating, the enriched uranium it produces and whether an inspection regime can bring these facilities under stricter international control. But the other side of the equation, and no less complicated,…
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Breaking News Iran Nuclear Talks Stretch On to Second Extra Day
Major powers and Iran negotiated into the early hours of Thursday on Tehran’s nuclear program two days past their deadline, with diplomats saying prospects for a preliminary agreement were finely balanced between success and collapse. The negotiations, aimed at blocking Iran’s capacity to build a nuclear bomb in exchange for lifting sanctions, have become bogged…
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News Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s ‘Obama Is Haman’ Rant Reflects Growing Israeli Anger Over Iran
(JTA) — For years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has compared Iran to the biblical Persia, the ancient kingdom where the Jewish people were nearly annihilated through the evil designs of the arch-villain Haman. But when an American-born rabbi, widely seen as a religious moderate who built one of the most innovative Orthodox synagogues in…
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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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