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Breaking News Barack Obama Vows To Veto New Iran Sanctions in State of Union
President Obama said in his State of the Union address that he will veto any new Iran sanctions. “There are no guarantees that negotiations will succeed, and I keep all options on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran,” Obama said in prepared remarks the White House posted online just minutes before the speech, a…
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Breaking News Democratic Senator Opposes ‘Rush’ To Impose New Iran Sanctions
The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee said on Tuesday he did not want to rush to vote on legislation to impose more sanctions on Iran, speaking a day after the panel said it would delay hearings on the issue for a week. “There’s not a rush on this. These negotiations are going…
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Breaking News Israel Claims It Didn’t Target Iran General in Syria Strike
An Iranian general killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria was not its intended target and Israel believed it was attacking only low-ranking guerrillas, a senior security source said on Tuesday. The remarks by the Israeli source, who declined to be identified because Israel has not officially confirmed it carried out the strike, appeared…
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Opinion What’s Behind Mystery ‘Suicide’ of Argentina Prosecutor in Terror Probe?
It’s undoubtedly just coincidence. Then again, once you enter the shadowy world of international skullduggery, few things are coincidence and nothing is what it seems. So let’s just look at the known facts in these two simultaneously unfolding stories and see if we can’t spot any points of intersection. It’s probably all just coincidence. Consider…
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Breaking News Thousands Protest ‘Suicide’ of Argentina Prosecutor Alberto Nisman Amid Terror Probe
Thousands of people rallied Monday night to protest the mysterious death of a prosecutor who accused Argentina’s president of orchestrating a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. “The executive power is consolidating its dictatorship,” said protester Luciano Florio, a student at the Marshall Meyer rabbinical school…
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Breaking News Jewish Prosecutor Found Dead — Accused Argentina President of Terror Bombing Cover-Up
An Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez of orchestrating a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center was found dead in his apartment, authorities said on Monday. Alberto Nisman, who had been delving into the blast at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that…
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Breaking News Argentina President Cristina Fernandez Accused of Cover Up in 1994 Jewish Center Terror Attack
An Argentine prosecutor accused President Cristina Fernandez on Wednesday of trying to orchestrate a cover up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. State prosecutor Alberto Nisman, investigating the blast that killed 85 people, said Fernandez has pushed to drop the criminal investigation and…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Talks Iran and ICC With Benjamin Netanyahu
President Barack Obama spoke by phone on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about ongoing nuclear talks with Iran and about the Palestinian move to become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the White House said. “President Obama underscored that the United States does not believe Palestinian accession to the ICC is…
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