John Boehner Going To Israel To Try To Sabotage Likely.
Speaker of the House John Boehner will be going to Israel to meet with Netanyahu around the same time that the White House expects an agreement to be reached on Irans nuclear program.. Iran has continued to meet its commitments under an interim nuclear agreement with six world powers, a confidential United Nations nuclear agency report seen by Reuters showed on Friday.. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman suggests arming ISIS to counter Iran
Republican Congressmen Violated Logan Act By.
Likewise, directly telling the leaders of Iran that America wont honor Obamas negotiated commitments is a violation of the Logan Act. Indeed, the Senator who organized the effort admitted that his intent was to sabotage negotiations with Iran.. Youre my new hero. Everything you say is true, I have spent considerable time looking at the Logan Act and there is no doubt that what those 47 people did was traitorous and illegal. And of course they should be tried.
The Iran Regime Change Act of 2015 - Daily Kos
The Congressional Republicans who invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to torpedo the Iranian talks, the 47 GOP Senators who wrote the leadership of the Islamic Republic threatening to block sanctions relief for Tehran, the 367 House. In his New York Times op-ed last week (To Stop Irans Bomb, Bomb Iran), Bolton made the destruction of Irans network of nuclear facilities and the overthrow of the Mullahs in Tehran sound like a walk in the park:.
Obama calls for resolution in Iran nuclear talks: They need.
German chancellor Merkel warned that the Ukrainian cease-fire talks planned for Wednesday in Minsk were not guaranteed to work, but said ���I myself would actually be not be able to live without having made this attempt.��� Obama discouraged speculation about a further extension of the Iran nuclear talks, saying that the P5+1 had offered Iran a unified deal that would allow it nuclear power but not nuclear weapons... It sounds like there are no hard feelings.
Prince Turki at Chatham House on Issues of the Day
Let me just take you quickly to the other key topic on the agenda at the moment, in the region, which is the push, imminently, potentially or in the coming months or weeks to achieve a deal on Irans nuclear programme... from the Middle East, maybe.
Read the full text of President Obamas 2015 State of the Union address
It has been, and still is, a hard time for many. But tonight, we. It is amazing, Rebekah wrote, what you can bounce back from when you have to.we are a strong, tight-knit family who has made it through some very, very hard times.. Youre.
Greece and EU Vow to Keep Talking
BRUSSELS���Eurozone finance ministers struggled to find a clear line on how to deal with Greeces financial issues early Thursday in light of what they said were mixed messages from the new government in Athens. After more than six hours of negotiations.
Weighing the Arguments on U.S. Military Action Against ISIS
But that commitment to a new and prolonged war was made in the heat of a moment of deep national outrage; and once made, could not easily be pulled back. But just because such a commitment was made, it does not mean that it was automatically either .
Why Iran Nuclear Talks Failed and Why They Will Get Tougher
The chance for a first preliminary agreement between Iran and the six powers (US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China) to resolve the decade-long conflict over Irans nuclear program was lost during the weekend because of a. The New York Times reported Sunday that Iran had insisted on the recognition of its right to enrich and that the US position is that there is no ���inherent right to enrich... Islamic State can be made to take the blame for the actions of our.
Obama Sets Fight Over Iran Sanctions
Mr. Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, appearing at a joint news conference Friday, both said the enactment of new financial penalties on Iran could unravel more than a year of high-level diplomacy and rekindle fears of a Western military.
The Senators Are Right on Iran - The American Interest
Peter Baker of the New York Times reports that Irans Foreign Minister, Javid Zarif, released a statement arguing the agreement would be binding no matter what: ���Mr. Zarif added that a change in administration would not.. of Iran might not have been the best or the most tactful way to make the point, but Senators have an obligation to their institution and to the Constitution to uphold their right to review long term international commitments made in Americas name.
US and Allies Extend Iran Nuclear Talks by 7 Months
Secretary of State John Kerry, trying to put the best face on it, told reporters that a series of ���new ideas surfaced��� in the last several days of talks. He added that ���we would be fools to walk away,��� because a temporary agreement curbing Irans.
The Construction of the Iran ���Threat��� - Global Research
And the New York Times featured this terrible threat repeatedly (one favorite, the lying headline of Sidney Grusons ���How Communists Won Control of Guatemala,��� March 1, 1953), a propaganda campaign dating back to 1950 that extended.. With the Shah in power, the United States actually encouraged Irans development of nuclear energy.13 But with his overthrow in 1979, the United States reversed course and nuclear energy was no longer permissible for Iran.
Iran nuclear talks: brinkmanship in Lausanne as deadline.
Whatever his salary, the Russian underlined his insouciance on Monday morning by arriving more than 10 minutes late for a critical ministerial meeting between the six world powers and Iran. The arrival of the foreign. The six-nation group wants restrictions to extend for a further five years, wary that new centrifuges could drastically reduce Irans breakout time (the period it would need to build a bomb, should it make that decision). Iran rejects such prolonged curbs��.
Lawmakers Continue Pushing For Iran Legislation, Despite Obamas Veto Threat
Congress has been threatening for more than a year to legislate its way into the ongoing negotiations over Irans nuclear program, by threatening either to pass new economic sanctions on Iran or, as Corker has proposed, to mandate an up-or-down vote.
President Obama Announces Historic Iran Nuclear Agreement
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US, Israel Trade Barbs Over Iran Talks
Top U.S. officials sharpened efforts to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his visit to Washington next week as tensions rose over his push to scuttle a possible nuclear deal with Iran. At what U.S. officials say is a historic.
Message for Our Senators - Blogs - Times Union
The diplomatic path is working: Iran has kept its commitments made during the negotiations so far, Iran is further away from being able to build a nuclear weapon than when the talks began, and negotiators are exploring multiple paths to resolve remaining conflicts. Look at the.. Your ���6 Reasons���, imploring our NY Senators to reject adjustments on our negotiating position with Iran, sound favorable, but are they rational or just wishful thinking? Each has an extremely��.
Netanyahu warns Congress: Deal will lead to Iranian nuclear bomb
Washington (CNN) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that a proposed agreement between world powers and Iran was a bad deal that would not stop Tehran from getting nuclear weapons -- but would rather pave its way to getting .
Tehran Hard-Liners Undermine Nuclear Talks
VIENNA���As international talks on Iran were about to resume, the Obama administration early this month secretly presented an eight-page document to Tehran in a bid to demonstrate Washingtons flexibility and offer an opening to end the protracted.
P5+1/Iran Talks: Kerry Says Work Remains, Heads Home.
���In these conversations, and indeed over the last almost six months since the Joint Plan of Action took effect, we have made progress. We have all kept the commitments made in the Joint Plan, and we have all lived up to our obligations... QUESTION: There was a report in The New York Times today, an interview with Foreign Minister Zarif, in which he suggested that the Iranians have proposed freezing their nuclear program for a few years in return for being treated��.
Headlines for March 18, 2015 | Democracy Now!
The first is, the president is driving a very hard bargain, and Iran is going to have to make some very tough and specific commitments as it relates to resolving the international communitys concerns with their nuclear program, as. The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces new allegations of atrocities in its bombings of rival-held areas... William Blake Spencer, a gay pastor in New Jersey, told The New York Times, Some of us are calling it liberation day.
Iran on the Nuclear Edge
Mr. Kerry also says that any deal will have intrusive inspections, yet he has a habit of ignoring Irans noncompliance with agreements it has already signed. Last November he insisted that ���Iran has lived up��� to its commitments under the 2013 interim.
Transcript: Iran foreign ministers remarks at Munich Security Conference
David Ignatius: Its my pleasure to moderate this discussion today with Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is Irans foreign minister, chief negotiator in the nuclear talks with the group variously known as the EU3+3 or the P5+1. But, by.. DI: And what do.
Timeline on Irans Nuclear Program
As six world powers and Iran race to meet a Monday deadline for an agreement that would constrain Irans nuclear program, the United States stakes out an ambitious goal for what an accord should accomplish.. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times. The.
West wary, Iran upbeat after nuclear talks - World News
advertisement. NBCs Ali Arouzi reports from Almaty, Kazakhstan, on the nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, that have ended with no tangible agreements other than to meet again in April.. Irans chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was upbeat and smiling after the talks concluded, and said that the offers made by the world powers was more realist than previous ones.. published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
Iran Nuclear Talks: A Deal May Be Reached with Trust, but Not
According to a November 25, 2014 New York Times article entitled ���U.S. and Allies Extend Iran Nuclear Talks by 7 Months���, the US and partners in the P5+1 (the permanent five members of the UN Security Council ��� the US, United.. Have they made Israel safe? Have they made Russia safe? All these countries are susceptible. Now you have proof that nuclear weapons or no amount of military power makes you safe. So we need to live in a different paradigm.
Kissinger on Iran
The Obama Administration may be underwriting a new era of global nuclear proliferation. Thats the. ���Nuclear talks with Iran began as an international effort, buttressed by six U.N. resolutions, to deny Iran the capability to develop a military.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | New York Times | nuclear | sanctions
On Sunday, the New York Times ran an editorial that compares President Barack Obama with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani���theyre clearly both moderates facing hard liners in their own governments���and provided an. Such a move might be justified down the road if negotiations collapse, or if Iran cheats on its commitments. But at this stage it could easily undermine the talks, split the major powers and propel Iran to speed its nuclear development. The Times��.
The War Irresolution
The time limit alone is reason to oppose the resolution, as weve seen in Afghanistan. Mr. Obamas deadline on U.S. operations there has given the Taliban confidence to wait us out. A time limit also tells our coalition allies that the U.S. commitment.
Can Sanctions Work Against Iran? - The New York Times
The leaders gave Iran gave two months to comply with international demands or face increased sanctions. Prime Minister. Attacking Irans nuclear sites would start another war in the Middle East that is hard to see the end of, and the chance that a bombing campaign would destroy all of Irans nuclear sites is slim... We also need to understand, however, that this is an ideological and authoritarian regime that has ���gamed��� the West ever since it came to power.
Israel lobbys fingerprints are all over Republican letter to.
The U.S. media have been sadly incurious about the origins of yesterdays unprecedented Open Letter of 47 Republicans to the Iranian leadership seeking to block the presidents likely deal with Iran. The press has portrayed the letter as the work of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a 37-year-old freshman senator so new to the limelight that the New York Times got his name wrong on first impression. But as a... But he has a blind spot regarding the power of the lobby.