Washingtons Third Option Against a Nuclear Iran
Jay Solomon and Carol Lee, two widely respected reporters of The Wall Street Journal, wrote last week on Iran as both a nuclear threshold state and a rogue regime. On Feb. 13, Solomon and Lee said that Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sent .
Should New York City Opera Just Stay Dead?
After 70 years, NYCO met its dramatic and disastrous end on October 1, 2013 filing for bankruptcy less than two weeks after its heavily publicized US premiere of the Anna Nicole Smith opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).. two weeks before.
Stephen Hayes: Iran cheated on the interim nuclear deal
By Jon Greenberg on Wednesday, December 31st, 2014 at 10:58 a.m.. For now, the two sides are operating under an interim agreement, which rolls back Irans stock of enriched uranium and freezes the countrys capability to produce nuclear materials.
Israel Seen End of Week Review - IsraelSeen.com
Amid reports that the emerging nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran would reportedly allow Iran to keep 6,500 centrifuges operating, a former CIA deputy director who served under President Obama has stated that this number is... The trashing of Mr. Netanyahu has done nothing but increase public interest in his speech. Recent polling finds Americans overwhelmingly in favor of giving the Israeli leader a fair hearing in Congress. (Wall Street Journal).
Five questions Americans must answer about Iran - Daily Kos
As former Defense Secretary William Perry (Lets Make a Deal with Iran) summed it up in a Politico op-ed this week, The latest round of negotiations has the United States and Iran mulling a nuclear agreement that would prevent Tehran. It is the responsibility of every member of Congress to listen to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who probably knows more about this issue than any world leader, Alan Dershowitz wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week, because it��.
Eye on Iran: Obama Warns Iran Nuclear Deal May Not Be.
Top StoriesAFP: The US and Iran will hold a second day of high-level talks in Oman Monday after a warning from President Barack Obama that there may be no nuclear accord as a deadline looms.. Mon, 11/10/2014 - 10:56 | by uaniadmin... If the reports are accurate - and the administration has not yet confirmed the scoop by the Wall Street Journal - the letter apparently urged Khamenei to finalize the nuclear deal and dangled the prospect of bilateral cooperation in fighting the��.
04/03 Links Pt1: Glick: The diplomatic track to war; Horovitz
His endlessly stated contention is not that war is the only alternative to the deal so delightedly hailed by Obama as ���the most effective way to ensure Iran doesnt get a nuclear weapon... Fabiuss comments come after the Wall Street Journal released an in-depth report Thursday night, citing numerous current and former US representatives in the negotiations, and showing how US President Barack Obamas administration gradually gave up on its goals during the��.
Nuclear Deal Allows Iran Significantly to Boost Centrifuges After 10 Years
Iran will be able to install significantly more advanced centrifuges for enriching uranium after the first 10 years of a final nuclear deal, it emerged on Saturday, according to a French fact sheet on this weeks accord between Tehran and a group of.
US, Iran Explore Option of 10-Year Nuclear Freeze ��� Israel.
The Wall Street Journal. GENEVA���The U.S. and Iran are exploring a nuclear deal that would keep Tehran from amassing enough material to make a bomb for at least a decade, but could then allow it to gradually build up its. While it would add some years in which the Iranian nuclear program continues to be closely monitored and constrained, Iran would be able to increase its capacity to enrich uranium, and thus get closer to bomb-making capability again.
Competitiveness and innovations are key to Saudi progress
After acknowledging the Islamic theocracys threatening rhetoric against Israel, Irans sponsoring of terrorism and its quest of nuclear power, he added, but, I do think that it is important for us to be willing to talk to Iran, to express very.
Eye on Iran: Kerry Rules Out Extension of Iran Nuclear Talks.
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 19:10 | by uaniadmin. Top Stories WashPost:. In November, when no deal could be struck by a self-imposed deadline, a temporary agreement, which had been in place for a year and had been extended once before, was pushed to late June. Kerry said. WSJ: A final deal to curb Irans nuclear program remains elusive after the latest talks, with Tehran refusing to move on a central demand to significantly curtail uranium enrichment, Western officials said Sunday.
Netanyahu, US Diplomacy and Stopping Irans Nukes
Prime Minister Netanyahu and the people of Israel have the most to lose, at least initially, if a bad deal is struck. He also has the best knowledge of Iranian progress toward nuclear-weapons capability. He should be allowed, indeed welcomed, to speak.
The Iran Fiasco - American Center for Democracy
10 Yet it is likely that after an agreement is reached allowing Iran to enrich to 3.5 percent, Iran itself will make explicit what will be implicit through the agreement. It will be difficult to deny other states.. Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht, ���The Case for Stronger Sanctions on Iran,��� Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304644104579189714065263216?commentid=6611893. 9. See note 4. 10. Ibid. 11.
Breaking Up Sanctions Is Hard to Do
Before coming to Foreign Policy magazine, Jamila reported for the Wall Street Journals Washington bureau, covering financial regulation and economics.. The Obama administration could suspend most of the American sanctions and successive.
What will Khamenei say on the Republics 36th anniversary?
Just two days before the 36th anniversary of the Islamic Republic on February 11, Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is preparing public opinion about a possible deal with the West. His recent speeches and Twitter posts show flexibility and.
President Obama reaches out to Iran
The broad parameters of a potential agreement include Iran cutting back on its number of centrifuges enriching uranium and redesigning a planned heavy water reactor so it doesnt produce plutonium.. The U.S. and Iran broke off diplomatic relations.
Netanyahus Churchillian warning - Bangor Daily News
Sanctions are lifted and Iran is permitted unlimited uranium enrichment with an unlimited number of centrifuges of unlimited sophistication. As The Wall Street Journals Bret Stephens points out, we dont even allow that for democratic South Korea.. Netanyahus veiled suggestion was that such a modification ��� plus a significant reduction in Irans current nuclear infrastructure, which the Obama deal leaves intact ��� could produce a deal that ���Israel and its [Arab]��.
Obama administration vows to veto bill requiring.
Terms leaked about the emerging nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran, on the other hand, will offer Iran an opportunity to build a significant nuclear weapons program to threaten and destabilize an already volatile Middle East. The emerging deal will reportedly allow Iran to maintain its nuclear-enrichment program ��� and then expand it to unlimited, industrial size in as few as 10 years. Rather than stopping proliferation, such an agreement would ensure massive nuclear��.
What You Need to Know About the Iran Nuclear Talks
As the New York Times notes, that would allow the Iranians to say the tough constraints would last for only 10 years and the Americans to say they had a 15-year agreement. Kerry and Obama have both said that they would only accept a deal with a .
US, Iran Explore Option of 10-Year Nuclear Freeze
GENEVA���The U.S. and Iran are exploring a nuclear deal that would keep Tehran from amassing enough material to make a bomb for at least a decade, but could then allow it to gradually build up its capabilities again.. While it would add some years in.
How Congress Became the Fall Guy for Obamas Iran Deal
By John HannahJohn Hannah is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focusing on U.S. strategy. During the presidency of George W. Bush, he served for eight years on the staff of Vice President Cheney, including as the vice .
Eye on Iran: Iran Seen Needing Big Steps for Final Deal.
Top Stories WSJ: Iran would have to remove 15000 centrifuge machines and take other drastic measures to forge a comprehensive nuclear agreement with the West, according to a report by a U.S. think tank that drew from. Washington also wants constraints to remain in effect for 20 years, Albright said, while Iran has said privately that it would agree to at most 10 years and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has spoken publicly of a period of only��.
How America Bamboozled Itself About Iran | - War Sclerotic
If a nuclear deal is imminent, that is largely because over the past 13 years of on-and-off negotiations, the great powers of the world have slowly but surely given in to Irans demands. As Iran has flouted.. U.S. officials fear that supporting anti-Assad militants in Syria could harm such cooperation; one senior military official told the Wall Street Journal that the United States and Iran ���have a common enemy, a common goal, everybody is moving in the same direction.
Media Call on Framework Agreement to Limit Irans Nuclear.
And they seem to suggest that they have a right to, within that 10-year period, to do research and development of entire spectrum of centrifuges, including IRAs, which move at 14 times higher than their current centrifuge machines.. there is���after billions of dollars spent on this and after billions of dollars lost in economic opportunities because of this, they do have a national narrative that, you know, in face of this concerted and significant international pressure, you��.
Irans Nuclear Program: What Is Known and Unknown
The Administrations best option is to press both its allies and the U.N. Security Council to impose the strongest possible sanctions on Iran to increase the costs to Iran of continuing its nuclear weapons program.. Instead, over the past year, Iran has spurned Western proposals to resolve the nuclear issue, insisted that it will continue to expand its nuclear program, installed hundreds more centrifuges to enrich uranium, been caught secretly constructing another��.
Iran, World Powers Fail to Reach Nuclear Agreement by Deadline
VIENNA���World powers failed to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran and extended talks for seven months, exposing deep divides between the sides and putting the diplomatic effort at risk from domestic discord in the nations involved. After negotiators.
Irans Diplomatic Path to the Bomb
Lets assume the Iranian nuclear talks in Vienna fail to conclude a final agreement by Nov. 24, the already extended deadline under the interim Joint Plan of Action signed in January. Irans clerical regime has refused to give much ground in key areas.
Iran Talks Likely to Figure in Any Hillary Clinton 2016 Bid
They say the White House is allowing Tehran to use the talks as a cover to weaken Western sanctions and to advance its nuclear program. The White House has said its diplomacy, and an interim agreement reached last year, have capped key parts of Irans .
The Road from Westphalia
Two new books now join this never-ending debate: Henry Kissingers World Order and America in Retreat by Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer Prize���winning foreign affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Both sound a. Somehow, Obama is saddled with.
Breaking Up Sanctions Is Hard to Do | Foreign Policy
Four years after Fukushima, nuclear is all the rage again���... Before coming to Foreign Policy magazine, Jamila reported for the Wall Street Journals Washington bureau, covering financial regulation and economics.. The Obama administration could suspend most of the American sanctions and successive administrations could continue those waivers for the duration of the deal, which is expected to be 10 or 15 years long; if Iran complies with its side of the bargain��.
Wide Asleep in America: The Phantom Menace:Fantasies.
For nearly thirty years now, U.S. and Zionist politicians and analysts, along with some of their European allies, have warned that Iranian nuclear weapons capability is just around the corner and that such a possibility would not only be.. After the November 1992 release of a new National Intelligence Estimate, which found that Iran is making progress on a nuclear arms program and could develop a nuclear weapon by 2000, CIA head Robert Gates addressed the��.
Seven Problems With John Kerrys Iranian Nuclear Clock.
Kerrys post-agreement breakout time calculations assume that Iran does not bring more centrifuges into operation for a whole year after kicking out inspectors and beginning its sprint for a nuke.. [10] Olli Heinonen, the former deputy chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), recently said that Iran could have thousands of additional IR-2m centrifuges, or the components for assembling them, stored outside of... The Wall Street Journal, February 12.