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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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Breaking News President Obama Makes Direct Plea to Iran People
President Barack Obama, in a message to Iran’s people and leaders on Thursday, said this year represented the “best opportunity in decades” to pursue a different relationship between their two countries. Obama said nuclear talks between Iran and Western powers had made progress but that gaps remained. “This moment may not come again soon,” Obama…
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Breaking News Iran Says No Difference in Israeli Leaders — All Are ‘Aggressors’
There is no difference between Israeli political parties following the electoral victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, Iran’s foreign ministry spokeswoman was quoted as saying by semi-official Mehr News Agency on Wednesday. “For us there is no difference between the Zionist regime’s political parties. They are all aggressors in nature,” Marizeh Afkham told…
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Opinion Trouble Ahead for Bibi. Plus: Why Herzog Lost
In the end it wasn’t even close. Pre-election polls had Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud trailing the Zionist Union of Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni by four Knesset seats, nearly 4% of the popular vote. Analysts around the world were falling over each other to write Bibi’s political obituary. Then came election day. Exit polls found he’d…
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