What framework agreement?

By DARYL HEDDING, ICEJ at ISRAEL ANSWERS— The first thing to note about the framework agreement is that there is no framework agreement. Though an announcement was made at the end of recent talks in Lausanne that a so-called framework agreement had been reached with Iran over its renegade nuclear program, nothing was signed by…

The Iran deal: Anatomy of a disaster

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, WASHINGTON POST— It was but a year and a half ago that Barack Obama endorsed the objective of abolition when he said that Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility, its plutonium-producing heavy-water reactor and its advanced centrifuges were all unnecessary for a civilian nuclear program. The logic was clear: Since Iran was claiming…

Revealing Israel’s nuclear secrets

By MICHAEL KARPIN, JEWISH DAILY FORWARD— In early February, the Pentagon declassified a 386-page report from 1987, exposing for the first time ever the actual depth of top-secret military cooperation between the United States and Israel — including, amazingly, information about Israel’s unacknowledged nuclear program. In view of the caustic tension that has increased lately…