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April 8, 2015 The US and Iran are Closer in Iraq Than People Realize — and Things are Getting Ugly The Obama administration is no longer hiding the fact that the US is serving as the air force for Iran-backed Shia militias fighting ISIS in Iraq. Helen Cooper of The New York Times repo... April 7, 2015 Obama and the ‘Inevitable Critics’ ... “The Iranian regime cheats incrementally, not egregiously, even though the sum total of its incremental cheating is egregious,” says Mark Dubowitz of the... April 7, 2015 Sales Push Begins for Iran Deal President Barack Obama and his opponents are going all-out to argue their cases regarding the unfolding nuclear agreement with Iran, which has become the epicenter of one of the most important fo... April 7, 2015 Can This Man Sell the Iran Deal to Congress? Hours after President Barack Obama strode to the Rose Garden to sell the Iran nuclear deal, one of Congress’ top foreign policy players picked up the phone to get more details. Sen... April 6, 2015 Will Saudi Arabia’s New King Regret the Arab Intervention in Yemen? ... Dr. David Andrew Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told VICE News the first Saudi intervention in Yemen was costly and inconclusive, and... April 6, 2015 With Iran Deal in Hand, White House Makes Sales Pitch to Preserve It ... “It’s going to be the world’s best-funded, most relentless sales job that we’ve ever seen,” said Mark Dubowitz, the executive director... April 6, 2015 Islamic State hostage John Cantlie suggests truce in latest issue of Dabiq magazine ... Foundation for Defense of Democracies expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross said the message is designed to undermine air strikes against IS by giving “credence” to anti-war voi... April 6, 2015 Iran nuclear deal has hungry investors circling This happened under the watch of reformist President Mohammad Khatami but instigated by institutions over which his government had no control. His successor Hassan Rouhani could find him... April 6, 2015 Iran nuclear agreement faces tough road ahead ... Schumer's emergence as the next Senate Democratic leader could give critics — now mostly Republicans — more clout, said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foun... April 3, 2015 Hillary Clinton’s Secret Iran Man It was Sept. 27, 2013, and President Barack Obama was about to place a historic phone call to the president of Iran — a conversation that would kick off the public phase of nuclear talks be... April 3, 2015 Iran’s Twitter Brushback Means Tough Path Ahead For Nuclear Deal Within hours of an initial agreement to cur... April 3, 2015 A Foreign Policy Gamble by Obama at a Moment of Truth The framework nuclear agreement he reached with Iran on Thursday did not provide the definitive answer to whether Mr. Obama’s audacious gamble will pay off. The fist Iran has... April 3, 2015 After Marathon Talks, Iran and World Powers Reach Nuclear Framework Deal Read Iran and the P5+1 (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany) world powers have announced that a framework deal on Iran’s nuclear program has been re... April 3, 2015 Israeli Response to Iran Nuclear Deal Could Have Broader Implications It took President Obama two days to call Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel after his March 17 electoral victory, and any congratulations were couched in an excoriation of Mr. Netanyahu&... April 2, 2015 What Would A Middle East Nuclear Arms Race Look Like? As nuclear talks with Iran hang in the balance, Saudi Arabia has hinted that it may start building a nuclear arsenal of its own. Analysts have since pointed out that negotiations with Ir... April 2, 2015 ISIS Just Suffered its Worst Defeat Yet — Losing the Iraqi City of Tikrit Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, had been an ISIS stronghold for almost a year. On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi marched through the city's center holding an Iraqi f... April 2, 2015 Iranians Tweet Up a Storm Over Nuclear Talks The nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, have been a hit on social media in Iran. Iranians young and old are anxiously watching the talks grind on with unprecedented intensity, accord... April 2, 2015 Military Families Level $200 Million Lawsuit On Iran Iran orchestrated an attack against U.S. soldiers during the Iraq war, and now the families of three victims are suing the Iranian government for $200 million. Agents from Iran-supported... April 1, 2015 Iran Nuclear Talks: More Wrangling Ahead ... Whether or not world powers reach a nuclear understanding with Iran this week, Congress and world leaders will try to influence the ongoing negotiations until a final deadline... April 1, 2015 ISIS Wants a Truce ... According to Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a Mideast expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, those remarks about the West acting robotica... April 1, 2015 Is ISIS Proposing a Truce, or Waging Psychological Warfare? ... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a Mideast expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, sees it rather as psychological warfare.... April 1, 2015 Iran talks could be pivotal to Obama’s legacy With negotiators in Switzerland extending talks Wednesday for a second day past the deadline, the pressure is increasing on Obama – who has long championed diplomatic negotiations wi... March 31, 2015 In Iran talks, failure is an option ... Pursuing new U.S. sanctions would bring Obama into cooperation with the Republicans in Congress on Iran for the first time in his presidency. Instead of attacking Senate Republicans... March 31, 2015 Obama faces enormous stakes as Iran talks go down to wire ... “It’s a big bet that this regime after a nuclear deal is going to change its behavior and I disagree fundamentally that it will,” said Mark Dubowit... March 31, 2015 Obama surrendered leverage in Iran nuke talks by easing sanctions, critics say ... Mark Dubowitz at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies said in an interview that Washington’s economic leverage over Tehran has slipped significantly as the Obama a... March 31, 2015 Obama ‘giving too much away’ to Iran ... Mark Dubowitz, who has advised the Obama administration and is considered to be the architect of the sanctions regime devised by Congress, said that the Iranians had “s... March 31, 2015 Experts: Iran Housing Nuke Materials in North Korea, Syria ... Ali Alfoneh and Reuel Marc Gerecht, both senior fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), have revealed that a nuclear reactor destroyed in Syria in 2007 by... March 31, 2015 Iran Tests Obama’s Desperation Again ... Iran’s refusal to fess up to its progress on possible military dimensions of its nuclear program is, in and of itself, a glaring weakness in any agreement since it means negoti... March 31, 2015 Reports: Iran Concealing Nuclear Materials in North Korea, Syria Read Latest Breaking News from New ... Ali Alfoneh and Reuel Gerecht of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies wrote recently that a nuclear reactor in Syria that was destroyed by Israeli warplanes in September 200... March 30, 2015 Iran can accept nuclear limits for 10 years says ally of Supreme Leader ... An agreement that left hundreds of centrifuges inside Fordow would infuriate members of Congress from both parties as well as Israeli and Arab governments. Mark Dubowitz, from the Fo... March 30, 2015 Lausanne Dispatch: Secret Facilities in NK, Syria a Possible New Issue in Iran Nuke Talks Iran has dispersed elements of its nuclear program to North Korea, introducing redundancy into its nuclear infrastructure that will undermine the usefulness of any deal, according to recently pub... March 27, 2015 Analysis: Sunni-Shi’ite wars going global David Andrew Weinberg, a specialist on Gulf affairs and a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Post on Thursday that such an invasion puts to the... March 27, 2015 Yemen crisis threatens Obama Iran nuclear talks, further clouds Middle East policy While the nuclear talks have been playing out over the past year, the administration has been unwilling to “push... March 27, 2015 These maps show what could happen next in Yemen — and how it could impact global politics Currently, Houthi forces control most of western Yemen including the capital, Sanaa. Houthi forces have allied themselves with army units loyal to former Yemeni President President Ali Abdullah S... March 26, 2015 Saudi Arabia is Bombing Iran-backed Rebels in Yemen Who Just Plundered US Intelligence Files "The only thing the US can really do is continue a limited campaign of drone strikes against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and try to encourage the the Gulf States to do something on Hadi&#03... March 26, 2015 IS Likely Trying to Add Al-Shabab to Its Ranks ... “They clearly are going to make a play for al-Shabab,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. &ldquo... March 25, 2015 AEROTERROR: A regular flight from Caracas to Tehran carried more drugs and money than people … "Not only is [the Veja report] credible, but it underscores the allegations prosecutor Nisman put forth about Iran's longstanding desire to have Argentina restart n... March 25, 2015 Amid nuclear talks, Obama shifts policy closer to Iran’s ... "A broader deal with Iran is what matters," Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who has written extensively on Iran'... March 24, 2015 Terrorism Provision in Iran Bill Draws Fire A provision in the Senate bill to give Congress a say in any Iran deal is drawing fire from the left for appearing to conflate the country’s nuclear work with its support for terrorism.... March 23, 2015 Israeli ambassador tells U.S. audience Netanyahu didn’t change position on two-state solution ... What to make of Netanyahu’s words -- is he a flip-flopper or being taken out of context? Ultimately, it’s hard to know his true position. Jonathan Schanzer, Foun... March 23, 2015 U.S. Boosts Military Presence in Gulf Waters as Iran Deal Inches Closer ... Michael Ledeen, an Iran expert and former consultant to the National Security Council (NSC), the State Department, and the Defense Department, said that many of the Gulf coun... March 23, 2015 ‘CSI: Buenos Aires’ Gets More Sinister ... Foreigners, too, have caught the Nisman wave. Israel is using the unsolved AMIA case to bash Iran. A Venezuelan filmmaker producing a film on the Nisman story said he was threatened.... March 22, 2015 Saudi, UAE Influence Grows With Purchases ... "The Saudis in particular have leveraged American arms purchases to exercise domestic influence in the US for decades, though, so that's not a brand new factor,"... March 21, 2015 Yemen on the Edge ... “ISIS has been arguing that they are the only jihadist force that will really take the fight to the Houthis,” said Thomas Joscelyn, senior editor of the Long War Journal,... March 21, 2015 Report: Iran-Backed Shiite Militias Went on Anti-Sunni Rampage After Freeing Key Iraqi Town After freeing the city of the Iraqi town of Amerli, which had been under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Iranian-backed Shiite militias rampaged through the area carrying out... March 20, 2015 More Iran Oil May Flow Within Months of Deal, Officials Say World powers have offered to suspend U.S. and European restrictions on Iranian oil exports, but only if the Islamic Republic accepts strict limits on its nuclear program for at least a decade, ac... March 20, 2015 Iranian Vulnerability The Obama White House is enlisting all its allies to make its case for the bad nuclear deal with Iran that, say administration allies, is better than no deal. The alternative, they claim, is war.... March 20, 2015 Dead Argentine Prosecutor Was Zeroing in on a Terror Threat to the Entire Western Hemisphere As days go by, the death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman — who was found dead in his locked apartment two months ago — becomes murkier in his home country. But in the US it app... March 20, 2015 Glenn Beck Says Barack Obama Took Iran, Hamas off U.S. Terror List ... We see two questions here. First, is it valid for him to call the Clapper report "the terror list"? And second, are the changes in the 2015 report -- the basis for his otherwise inaccu... March 19, 2015 Iran Centrifuge Test Was Error, Not Cheating, U.S. Officials Say When nuclear monitors said Iran had started testing a single advanced centrifuge last year, some U.S. politicians and analysts jumped on the report as proof the Islamic Republic can’t be tr...

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