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Iran’s Foreign Minister Rejects Nuclear Deal

Today Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki publicly rejected the U.N.-backed proposal to send about 70 percent of Iran’s known supplies of enriched uranium out of the country. Mottaki suggested that instead Iran would exchange its low-enriched ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Iran’s Latest American Hostages

Iran’s list of hostages is steadily growing despite the Obama Administration’s zealous efforts to engage Iran’s brutal dictatorship. Three young American hikers who accidentally strayed across the Iranian border last summer now face charges of ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Shane Bauer,  Sarah Emily Shourd,  Joshua Felix Fattal,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

More Evidence of Iran Nuclear Duplicity

The Guardian reports today that the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Iran to explain evidence that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, but Tehran continues to stonewall requests for relevant ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: International Atomic Energy Agency,  Washington Post Company

What Iran Learned From the Hostage Crisis: Terrorism Works

Today is the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Iranian hostage crisis, America's first searing experience with Islamist terrorism. On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats as hostages. ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Reza Pahlavi,  Ruhollah Khomeini,  Mohammed Mossadegh,  Central Intelligence Agency

Iran’s Brazen Gambit in the Nuclear Chess Game

Iran’s theocratic dictatorship once again has thrown up an obstacle to diplomatic resolution of the nuclear stalemate. The New York Times today reported that Iran has rejected the U.S-conceived, U.N.-backed plan for temporarily easing tensions over ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  United Nations

Iran Fails to Respond to Nuclear Deal

Despite the Obama Administration’s optimistic rhetoric about sealing a nuclear deal with Iran, Tehran again has thrown a monkey wrench into the nuclear negotiations by failing to meet today’s deadline to accept a United Nations-backed proposal for ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  United Nations

The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing: Connecting the Dots

Today is the 26th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon by Lebanese terrorists supported and directed by Iran. The attack, which killed 241 American servicemen (220 Marines, 16 Navy personnel, and 3 Army soldiers) ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Al-Qaeda,  Osama bin Laden,  Ruhollah Khomeini,  National Security Agency

Iran’s Shaky and Deceptive Nuclear Deal

The tentative nuclear deal that the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany) reportedly has reached with Iran has been widely hailed as a success for the Obama Administration’s engagement policy. For example, today a ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U N Security Council,  International Atomic Energy Agency

Iranian Official Promises a Diplomatic Slowdown and Gloats: “Time is on our side”

This confirms previous suspicions that Tehran will exploit the P5+1 talks to engage in a diplomatic filibuster that will defuse momentum for further international sanctions while Iran continues to move forward on its nuclear program. The value of the ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  International Atomic Energy Agency,  Pete Hoekstra,  U.S. Republican Party,  House Intelligence Committee

Putin Puts U.S. on Notice that Iran Sanctions Would be “Premature”

Clinton left Moscow empty-handed on her first trip there as Secretary of State, amid growing criticism that the Obama Administration’s effort to “hit the reset button” with Russia had failed to bring any tangible benefits on the Iran issue. Lavrov did ...

From JAMES PHILLIPS, The Heritage Foundation,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Barack Obama

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