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November 26, 2013
Qatar Accused of Fudging ‘Independent’ Inquiry into Migrant World Cup Workers
A top international law firm that was ordered by the Qatari government to conduct an "independent review" into allegations of modern-day slavery at World Cup construction sites is also a...
November 26, 2013
Senators Writing New Sanctions in Case Iran Cheats
Leading Democratic and Republican senators are crafting legislation to reinstate the full force of sanctions and impose new ones if Iran doesn't make good on its pledge to roll back its nucl...
November 25, 2013
Iran Pact Faces Stiff Opposition
A groundbreaking deal to curb Iran's nuclear program faces towering obstacles at home and abroad to becoming a permanent agreement, starting with the U.S. Congress and two of America's...
November 25, 2013
After Iran Nuclear Deal, Tough Challenges Ahead
The euphoria over the signing of a ...
November 25, 2013
A Gamble in Iran Talks: Easing of the Sanctions
In its delicate negotiations with Iran over freezing its nuclear program, the Obama administration is gambling that the gradual relaxation of punishing sanctions will whet Tehran’s appetite...
November 25, 2013
Iran Nuclear Deal May Foreshadow Tehran’s Role In Syria Peace Talks
With one major diplomatic deal now agreed upon, Iran may be on track to take a formal role in negotiations to end the Syrian civil war. Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Sunday...
November 25, 2013
What’s Behind the Wave of Terror in the Sinai
Writing to a network of followers and potential followers around the world, the Mauritanian-born cleric Sheikh Abu al-Mundhir al-Shinqiti, one of the world's most prominent jihadi ideologues...
November 25, 2013
Iran Sanctions Relief May Be Hard to Undo
Sanctions relief given to Iran in return for its agreement to suspend part of its nuclear program are not as limited or as reversible as the White House claims, analysts and some lawmakers say....
November 22, 2013
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades: Behind the Terrorist Group That Bombed Iran’s Beirut Embassy
The al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades took responsibility for Tuesday’s suicide-bomb attack on the Iranian embassy in Lebanon, raisi...
November 22, 2013
Proposed Nuke Deal Doesn’t Do Enough to Freeze Iran’s Program
As the United States and other world powers resume nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva, Barack Obama's administration is pushing hard not only to wrap up a short-term nuclear deal with the rog...
November 21, 2013
Analysis: Hezbollah and Iran – Two Branches of the Same Tree
When Lebanese MP Walid Sukkarieh of Hezbollah said last week the Shi’ite-dominated axis of Hezbollah-Iran-Syria could bleed Israel to death by sustaining losses that the Jewish state could...
November 20, 2013
United Nations Elects Human Rights Violators to Human Rights Council
The United Nations elected China, Cuba, Russia, and Saudi Arabia to seats on its Human Rights Council Tuesday, all countries that have been widely condemned by international groups for gross huma...
November 20, 2013
Suez Canal Targeted as War in Sinai Spreads
The puff of smoke as the rocket hits the ship is unmistakable. The muttered invocation of "Allahu akbar" on the video soundtrack declares the attacker's ideology. What the strike will mean f...
November 20, 2013
Obama Seeks Time From Congress for Iran Diplomacy
The Obama administration is pleading with Congress to allow more time for diplomacy with Iran, but faces sharp resistance from Republican and Democratic lawmakers determined to further squeeze th...
November 20, 2013
Two Bomb Attacks Target Egyptian Soldiers, Police Officers
Two separate bomb attacks in the Egyptian capital and the restive border province of North Sinai killed 11 soldiers and wounded at least two police officers early Wednesday, underscoring the coun...
November 18, 2013
Obama Defends Iran Dealmaking Amid Dispute Over How Much Relief
The Obama administration is on the defensive days before Iran nuclear negotiations are scheduled to resume in Geneva, as critics in Israel and in the U.S. Congress say Iran would concede too litt...
November 18, 2013
The Palestinian Authority Reportedly Just Gave Out $50,000-Bonuses to Convicted Terrorists
The Palestinian Authority has given convicted terrorists released from Israeli prison in recent months a $50,000 bonus, Israel Radio reported Monday morning, prompting one Israeli news site to&nb...
November 18, 2013
The Axis of Hope?
It is a measure of how little respect the Obama administration commands that the best hope for heading off a nuclear-armed Iran may be the Israeli-Saudi-French axis. Unfortunately, the world&rsqu...
November 15, 2013
Israel and White House Locked in an Info War Over Iran
The White House and Israel are locked in an information war on Capitol Hill, and right now, Israel may be winning. All week, the Obama administration has provided facts and figures to la...
November 14, 2013
Inside Obama’s Iran Sanctions Strategy
The United States is prepared to allow Iran to recoup up to $10 billion in revenues lost to sanctions, according to a U.S. government estimate of sanctions relief proposed this weekend at Geneva....
November 13, 2013
Dubowitz: Negotiations Have Shown Iran They Can Have a Nuke and Sanctions Relief
Executive Director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Mark Dubowitz said the Geneva negotiations have ...
November 13, 2013
Obama Seeks Time From Congress for Iran Diplomacy
The Obama administration is pleading with Congress to allow more time for diplomacy with Iran, but faces sharp resistance from Republican and Democratic lawmakers determined to further squeeze th...
November 13, 2013
Dems Pummel Administration on Iran
At the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran today, Democrats joined Republicans in insisting the Senate move ahead on banking sanctions previously passed. And, as sanction...
November 13, 2013
Senate Panel, White House at Odds on Iran
A Senate committee will decide after a hearing from Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday whether to move ahead with legislation to strengthen economic sanctions on Iran to pressure it to en...
November 13, 2013
Reports: Russia to Help Iran Build Second Nuclear Reactor
Russia will help Iran build a second nuclear power plant, according to Tehran’s top nuclear official. The head of Iran’s atomic energy organization announced the deal on Wedn...
November 12, 2013
Just How Bad is the Geneva Nuclear Deal for Israel?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been denouncing the emerging — but not finalized — agreement between six Western powers and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear progra...
November 12, 2013
Iran Nuclear Deal Hangs in the Balance in Geneva
A landmark agreement to contain Iran’s nuclear programme is moving beyond reach despite hours of talks between John Kerry, the US secretary of state, and his Iranian counterpart. A...
November 12, 2013
La Disuasión Económica
- El Grupo 5+1 está dispuesto a aceptar un acuerdo con Irán para que suspenda temporalmente la actividad nuclear a cambio de relajar...
November 12, 2013
Obama has ‘Head Handed to Him’ in Secret Iran Sanction Deal Amid Nuclear Talks
For all the tough talk on the international front the United States has quietly been easing some of the financial restrictions on Iran, a new investigation reveals. But, as one source suggested,...
November 12, 2013
Fmr. U.S. Officials: Iran Nuke Inspection Deal Falls Short
International nuclear inspectors will be barred from entering Iran’s most contested nuclear site under a new deal inked on Monday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)&nbs...
November 12, 2013
French Exceptionalism? Why France Scuttled Iran Nuclear Agreement.
"Tonight I'm eating FRENCH fries," read a tweet this weekend from Rick Grenell, the US's spokesperson at the UN when France opposed an invasion of Iraq in 2003, and who gave rise to the...
November 12, 2013
No Vote for Uncle Sam in UNESCO?
The U.S. is expected to lose its vote in the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultu...
November 12, 2013
How France Scuttled the Iran Deal at the Last Minute
Western and Iranian negotiators were putting the finishing touches on a far-reaching nuclear deal. Then, at virtually the last minute, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius joined in the talks....
November 12, 2013
Administration Bashed Over Iran Deal
When France, Saudi Arabia, Democrats, Republicans and foreign policy gurus of all stripes express varying degrees of outrage over a U.S. president’s foreign policy, you know things have gon...
November 12, 2013
Yasser Arafat Poison Report Opens Old Wounds
It was a crucial decision that could have triggered the assassination of Yasser Arafat. Early in 2002, the charismatic chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation was sitting in his headq...
November 8, 2013
White House Ambitions on Iran Deal Face Challenge From Hawks in Congress
As soon as the Obama administration reaches an anticipated deal with Iran over its nuclear program, it will face a new challenge that threatens to strangle the accord in its crib: the inevitable...
November 8, 2013
Palestine’s Self-Inflicted Wounds
About six months ago, I sat in a coffee shop in al-Tireh, a suburb of Ramallah, and interviewed a senior official within Fatah. The official, wanting to talk about the internal dynamics within th...
November 8, 2013
Exclusive: Obama’s Secret Iran Détente
The Obama administration began softening sanctions on Iran after the election of Iran’s new president in June, months before the current round of nuclear talks in Geneva or the historic pho...
November 8, 2013
West and Iran Seen as Nearing a Nuclear Deal
After years of fruitless negotiations, Western and Iranian diplomats are on the verge of an agreement that would freeze Tehran’s ...
November 8, 2013
Cash Offer Could Bring End to Iran Arms Threat
Iran would be offered a cash windfall from its frozen oil revenues under a plan being explored by the West to make progress in nuclear talks this week. It would allow Tehran to unlock so...
November 8, 2013
Kerry: ‘Important Gaps’ Must Be Overcome in Iran Nuclear Deal
Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Geneva on Friday to try and "narrow the differences" with Iran on an interim agreement over its nuclear program, a proposal Israel says would be a "very...
November 8, 2013
Will Barack Obama Let Iran Win in Geneva?
Iran and the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany) seem ready to strike an interim deal that would loosen sanctions on the Iranian economy in exchange fo...
November 8, 2013
The Fix is in For a Bad Deal with Iran
It won’t be long, I suspect, until President Obama delivers this line to the Israelis: “I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from...
November 8, 2013
Netanyahu Attack on Possible Iran Deal Risks Rift With U.S. (2)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a potential agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, which he denounced as a “very bad deal,” threatens to ignite the...
November 7, 2013
Obama to Allow Iran to Keep Its Nuclear Weapons Program?
Critics of the president’s feeble Iran policy have known all along this was coming. If the report in the ...
November 6, 2013
Report: Al Jazeera Paying for Exiled Muslim Brotherhood Leaders’ Hotel Rooms
Al Jazeera officials are keeping quiet following reports that the Qatari-owned news organization is funding hotel suites for the exiled senior leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood....
November 4, 2013
Religious Freedom Watchdog: Iran Lashing Sentences “Effectively Criminalize” Practicing Christianity
In 2010 the State Department documented a range of Iranian government abuses against Ch...
November 4, 2013
Al Qaeda’s ‘Great Escape’ Plot? Hundreds of Terrorists Freed
Hundreds of suspected terrorists have been freed in a series of brazen jailbreaks that U.S. counter-terrorism analysts now suspect may all be part of an al Qaeda-coordinated "Great Escape"-like p...
November 4, 2013
How ‘Moderate’ Is Iran’s New President Rouhani? Just Ask Christians & Gays
When Hassan Rouhani won the Iranian presidential elections, he was touted widely in the mainstream media as ...
November 4, 2013
In Pakistan, Drone Strike Turns a Villain Into a Victim
In life, Hakimullah Mehsud...
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