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With the ultimate fate of Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran hanging in the balance, radio host Rush Limbaugh is suggesting four Americans held in the Islamic Republic will be released as part of a secret agreement.

As long as he’ll be the one to say, ‘The only president to secure an agreement with Iran, period.’ No matter whatever else follows is irrelevant.

The White House says lawmakers who want to know about agreements between Iran and worldwide nuclear inspectors will get a chance to learn about them in classified briefings.

Congress has two months to consider whether to reject the deal to roll back sanctions in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program. Other countries, he says, will wonder if they are negotiating with the Obama administration or some 535 members of Congress acting as...

However the IAEA, using U.S., Israeli and other intelligence and its own research, suspects that Iran may have have experimented with high-explosive detonators for nuclear arms at that military facility south of Tehran, and other weapons-related work elsewhere. The US Congress is...

Only a day after former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani said in an interview with an Arab daily last week that the reopening of the US embassy in Tehran is a possibility, the supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei said that the recent nuclear deal between Iran and world powers...

Other countries, he says, will wonder if they are negotiating with the Obama administration or some 535 members of Congress acting as secretaries of state.

The Obama administration believes the deal, announced last month, would curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions for at least a decade, lower its uranium stockpile and provide more transparency to the United Nations nuclear agency.

Cruz, citing Moniz’s testimony from another hearing, said the energy secretary did not understand what an electromagnetic pulse was.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that Obama will attempt to ease concerns that the deal, which curbs Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, could put Israel’s safety at risk.

“The more time Members spend evaluating this agreement, the more they realize it’s an historic mistake”, he said in a statement on Monday. “There’ll be a lot of pressure on Democrats to support the president”, said Engel.

By the time the House of Representatives recessed for the summer last week, no senior Democrat in the chamber had come out formally against the agreement and several central figures, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, were strongly in favour.

In a live appearance on state television, Hassan Rouhani said the July 14 agreement had shown diplomacy and engagement were the only way to solve serious political problems and end crises.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi on July 14 signed a roadmap in Vienna to resolve all the past and present outstanding issues related to Tehran’s nuclear energy program. Tom Cotton of Arkansas as...

Boxer recited a list of nations around the world that back the deal and said her Republican colleagues were being disrespectful. Everything that we have prevented will then start taking place, and all the voluntary rollbacks of their program will be undone, Kerry told the lawmakers.