By NTI— Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are deliberating how to act on their concerns about a multilateral nuclear accord reached with Iran last month, several GOP House lawmakers told The Hill newspaper for a Wednesday report. Potential moves under consideration include a stepped-up push for Senate action to pass new Iran penalties,…
By RAFAEL L. BARDAJI, GATESTONE— The agreement reached by the group of countries known as P-5+1½ (that is, the five permanent U.N. Security Council powers plus Germany and the European Union representative) with Iran regarding its nuclear program has been rated by its proponents—President Obama’s followers—as a “historic agreement,” while opponents—primarily Israel and the Gulf…
By VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— It was President Carter in 1979 who naively misunderstood the internal politics of Iran and let the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, be overthrown by Islamists. Carter was overjoyed to let the Ayatollah Khomeini return from his exile in France to take over the Iranian state. Astonishingly as we look…
By DAN MARGALIT, ISRAEL HAYOM— A colleague who specializes in modern history remarked to me on Sunday that the deal signed with Iran is not comparable to the disgrace signed in Munich in 1938. In this historian’s eyes, the appropriate comparison is the West’s silence in the face of Hitler’s invasion of the Rhineland in…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— “What was achieved last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement; it is a historic mistake,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday morning about the nuclear deal reached hours earlier between world powers and Iran. “Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime…
By NOAH BECK, ISRAEL TODAY— According to a recent news report, President Barack Obama has for over a year secretly conducted negotiations with Iran (through his adviser Valerie Jarrett) and the Geneva talks on Iranian nukes now appear to be just a facade providing international legitimacy for Obama’s secret deal with Iran. Secretary of State…
By ILAN BERMAN, USA TODAY— Commenting on the gullibility of the credulous American consumer nearly a century ago, the famous showman PT Barnum is said to have remarked that “there’s a sucker born every minute.” To see what this looks like in practice, you need only look at the deal that the Obama administration was…
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and MICHAEL GORDON, NY TIMES— Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. pressed senators on Wednesday to give the Obama administration some breathing room to reach an accord with Iran to freeze its nuclear programs, warning that a new round of sanctions could mean war instead of…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Top U.S. government officials on Wednesday continued to try to soften congressional opposition to the emerging interim deal between world powers and Iran, but ran into great skepticism on Capitol Hill. Both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry met with Senate officials on Wednesday in an effort to…
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— As Israel lobbies Western powers against making a poor nuclear deal with Iran, Jerusalem is directly laying blame for the situation on America, revealed Israeli officials over the weekend. “This is no way to run a negotiation,” Israeli officials told Channel 2 News, charging that the Americans “are giving up…