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Booker said in a statement that the deal is flawed, but the alternative is worse.

In a statement, Booker voiced deep reservations but concluded: “It is better to support a deeply flawed deal, for the alternative is worse”.

“This morning we took these clothes off leading distributors”, he said, noting that any stores that sell such items “will be closed”.

A common denominator is Ron Dermer, a Gingrich aide in the 1990s and now Netanyahu’s ambassador to Washington.

“They basically said unanimously this is as good a deal as you could get and we are moving ahead with it”, recalled Senator Chris Coons, the Delaware Democrat who lent crucial support to the deal this week despite some reservations. So far, 226 House members –...

Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Warner of Virginia and Cory Booker of New Jersey formally announced their backing. He laid out an array of details that quite frankly we aren’t hearing in other places, certainly that we aren’t reading that level of detail in...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Thursday most Americans agreed with Israel over dangers posed by Iran, even as he lost a battle to persuade the U.S. Congress to reject Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers including Washington. Booker, Warner and Heitkamp...

President Obama needs the support of 34 senators to sustain a potential veto if Republicans in Congress pass the resolution of disapproval.

With only two Democrats opposing the deal, the odds are looking better by the hour that Democrats may be able to block the resolution in the Senate. Reps. Donna Edwards and Chris Van Hollen, both Democrats who are seeking the Senate seat that will be left open by Mikulski’s...

The project was part of Iran’s bid to establish 5,000 megawatts of renewable capacity in the country.

He quotes the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said of Israel: “This barbaric, wolf-like, and infanticidal regime of Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to be annihilated”, and stressed that in calculating foreign policy toward Iran,...

This article was originally published by the European Council on Foreign Relations on 13 August, 2015.

The comments came during a visit to Tehran to meet with President Hassan Rouhani and reopen Britain’s embassy – which still bear traces of hostility with “Death to England” graffiti scrawled on the wall – nearly four years after it was closed.

Opponents of the deal claim the White House is naive to believe that it will temper the Iranian regime, which was founded on the extreme Islamist doctrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of a fraud is “something that is meant to look like the real thing in order to trick people“.