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Judge appears willing to unveil some of Mar-a-Lago affidavit

Critics in Congress who have long vowed to reject any U.S. nuclear pact with Iran have new reasons for trying to prevent a lasting deal.

Matthew Lee is the APs excellent diplomatic reporter. In a story just posted this morning, Lee reports that a new Iran deal (worse than the old deal) may be tantalizingly close. Reading between the lines, Lees opening paragraph comes off like a subtle satire of the proposition that the deal in view is tantalizing: Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national in a

As the U.S. and Europe weigh Iran’s latest response to an EU proposal believed by most to be the West’s final offer, the administration faces new and potentially insurmountable domestic political hurdles to successfully forging a lasting agreement.

Last weeks attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to murder former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

The term “paper tiger” derives from an old Chinese idiom and means a “blustering, harmless fellow.” It first gained global notoriety in 1956, when Chairman Mao Zedong labeled the US a paper tiger. Fast forward to 2022 and it is not (yet) Xi Jinping dubbing the US a paper tiger, it is Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is treating America with the utter contempt one would

The Biden administration faces new and potentially insurmountable domestic political hurdles to forging a lasting agreement.

The shocking attempt to murder writer Salman Rushdie last Friday in New York wasn’t just a criminal attack on the author but probably also an Iranian-inspired (and possibly Iranian-directed) act of terrorism. Rushdie, after publishing the controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses,” was targeted for death in a fatwa (or Islamic edict) issued in February 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution. 

IN 1992, senior RAND analyst George Tanham touched a raw nerve in India by concluding that India did not have a tradition of strategic thinking throughout its history. His essay, prepared after a four-month visit to India was commissioned by the US Defence Department, during which he interviewed sev

The shocking attempt to murder writer Salman Rushdie wasn’t just a criminal attack, but probably also an Iranian-inspired act of terrorism.