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The agreement over Iran’s nuclear program is “a deal with the devil” that should be rejected by Congress, Rabbi Richard Block, immediate past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, said in an op-ed today in The Hill.

But the recently revealed side agreement between Iran and the United Nations’ worldwide Atomic Energy Agency that allows Iran to conduct its own inspections of its own Parchin nuclear site, long suspected of being used to develop nuclear arms, makes a strong case that the...

Critics questioned some aspects of the article, which was changed by the news company repeatedly, including to indicate that the global Atomic Energy Agency staff would monitor Iranian personnel during the site inspections. The report was based on what the AP’s anonymous...

Sen. Menendez will “vote to disapprove the agreement and, if called upon, would vote to override a veto“, according to remarks prepared for a speech at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.

We also staunchly agree that Mr. Obama, as the leader of this nation, should retract the unfortunate comment made that those opposing the deal are “making common cause” with Iran’s hard-line leaders.

In his speech at the Seton Hall School of Diplomacy and worldwide Relations, Menendez committed not only to voting against the deal when the Senate returns next month, but also to voting to override a presidential veto.

Republicans hold 54 of the Senate’s 100 seats and would need at least 13 Democrats to vote no. So far, just Senator Chuck Schumer has said he will oppose the deal, while 20 Senate Democrats have said they will support it.

The board expressed gratitude for the Obama administration’s focus on the Iranian nuclear threat, but went on to say that the Iran deal should be strengthened, war is not the only alternative to the deal (Obama has claimed it is) and Israel is being singled out.

Moreover, the letter also contained an unmistakable warning: “If the deal is rejected by America, the Iranians could have a nuclear weapon within a year”, it said. “They’d kill them in front of all the villagers, and say ‘We’re going to run our...

Chuck Schumer scrambling to abandon the president, is whether an Obama veto will hold. He and his Israeli counterparts believe communities like these would be at greater risk if the Iran deal passed and Iran had more capital to fund terrorism in the region, including Hamas. An...

“Hence, no nuclear accord should provide Iran with an unearned “express pass” to global legitimacy”, the board said.

Kerry also warned that the U.S. could lose its military standing in the world should Congress reject the deal and insist its allies concede to U.S. sanctions on Iran.

Though Schumer’s announcement that he would vote in disapproval of the nuclear deal – which leaked mysteriously during the middle of the Republican debate on Thursday – is unlikely to derail the process, it represents an embarrassing rift with a senior Democrat...

Tensions over the South China Sea have dominated talks this week in the Malaysian capital, where Asean foreign ministers have also met their counterparts from various countries, including China and the United States.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon indicated on August. 7 that Israeli intelligence services may have been behind the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.