The Biden administration told Iran through EU mediators that linking the UN investigation of Iran's undeclared nuclear activity to the reimplementation of the 2015 nuclear deal could delay lifting U.S. sanctions. My story on
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American observers have a way of overplaying Iran's role in Iraq. But it's not all about Iran.
I spoke with about the roots of this week's political violence.
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Russian oil chief dies in fall from hospital window, reports say
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Regime in Iran deprived Iranian women from entering stadiums for 4 long decades. After years of being refused entry, beaten, arrested and worse, Iranian women got to attend a football league game for the 2nd time in a week. Their happy faces & the joy of the players says it all.
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In Persian, we often discuss the many words of Arabic origin. They're easy to identify because they have a different structure. Since Iranians learn Arabic in school, they can identify Arabic roots when they see them.
Fewer people realize the extent of Persian words in Arabic.
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Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh ended a hunger strike lasting more than 170 days after Israel agreed to his release in October.
Read more: aje.io/fvrdsr
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One of the funny quirks in our Iran discourse is how people use the term "malign activity" as if it's a term of art with a clearly defined meaning, when in reality it just means "bad things Iran does."
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This day one year ago, the last American troop left Afghanistan.
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We tried Republicans’ Iran strategy from 2017-2021. What did we get?
- Iran’s breakout time went from a year to 2 weeks
- Iran restarted attacks on our Middle East troops
- Iran increased support for regional proxy forces
EVERYTHING got worse. Why would we listen to them now?
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You can add to the list: current minister of defense Benny Gantz, former IDF chief of staff Eizenkot, current head of military intelligence Aharon Haliva, current head of the military intelligence research division twitter.com/BahmanKalbasi/…
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You can add to the list: current minister of defense Benny Gantz, former IDF chief of staff Eizenkot, current head of military intelligence Aharon Haliva, current head of the military intelligence research division
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#Trump’s US Amb. to #Israel says he doesn’t rely on any Israeli military/intel official who believes US violating the #Iran deal was a mistake. Among the senior IDF figures @DavidM_Friedman doesn’t rely on: Gen. Dror Shalom, Gen. Tamir Hayman, Iran Intel unit D. Citrinowicz, twitter.com/DavidM_Friedma…
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Frm Def. Minister Ya’alon, Yoel Guzansky, former head of the Iran desk at Israel’s National Security Counci….I am sure would have more names to add to this list.
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Replying to @NTarnopolsky
Any “top military intel” people who are speaking to the press are not the ones I would be relying upon.
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The Palestinians facing mass eviction in the West Bank
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BREAKING: Mossad director David Barnea will visit Washington next week for talks on the emerging nuclear deal with Iran. A senior Israeli official said Barnea will participate in closed door classified meetings of the House and Senate intelligence committees
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Barr strongly prefers a competent authoritarian but he would settle for an incompetent one over a centrist Democrat
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Such a rich interview of Trump attorney general Bill Barr by @bariweiss. commonsense.news/p/bill-barr-ca
I'll limit myself in this thread to Barr's damning assessments of Trump.
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And bringing itself back into the deal that US Gov. violated. Iran started reducing compliance a year after US exited the deal.
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President Biden looked to strike a tricky balance on Iran this week, as he attempts to restore the Iran nuclear deal while reassuring allies that Washington can still push back on Tehran’s malign activities
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“My personal opinion is that leaving the nuclear deal was a mistake" said the Israeli official who talked to about the discussions between #Israel’s Defense Minster and White House National Security Advisor.
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1 \ Israeli MoD Gantz got the impression in his meeting with WH National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan that the Biden administration was developing a military option against Iran in parallel to the talks on a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, an Israeli defense official said
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Tehran says goodbye to the beloved poet.
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Persian social media is mourning the passing of #Iran’s beloved contemporary poet Hushang Ebtehaj (#Shayeh). This video of him reciting one of his poems and late Maestro Shajarian singing another one of his well known poems, was posted by House of Shajarian’s account on Insta.
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Scoop: U.S. toughened positions in Iran deal response, Israeli officials say. The talks the Israeli national security adviser had at the White House earlier this week reduced the anxiety in Jerusalem about more U.S. concessions. My story on
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Interesting article about the secularization of Iran under theocracy by . Religion only lasts when it sits on people lightly:
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US Deputy Sec. of State Wendy Sherman met #Israel’s National Security Advisor. Talked about Iran and raised Israel government’s attack on Palestinian human rights organizations and killing of American journalist by the IDF:
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Iran’s FM Spox says Tehran has received the U.S. response to the EU draft agreed & “A detailed assessment of the response has begun. Iran will announce its views to the coordinator when complete."
#JCPOA #irannucleardeal
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What will happen if Iran deal is revived:
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Let's talk about what this actually means for Iran's nuclear program:
-Iran will ship out/blend down more than 238 kg of 20% enriched uranium
-Iran will ship out/blend down more than 43 kg of 60% enriched uranium
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“structure of the transaction was most likely legal but did appear to allow a donor to avoid federal tax obligations from the sale of the company….Supporters can, however, donate assets that a nonprofit can sell and avoid capital gains taxes on the sale.”
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Exclusive: Iran has dropped some demands for nuclear deal, U.S. official says. "They came back last week and basically dropped the main hang-ups to a deal," the official said.
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IAEA DG tells on Iran probe:
"Give us the necessary answers, people and places so we can clarify the many things needed for clarification. We will provide a report clarifying what happened and then this idea will be put to rest.”
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Can't believe it. It's 's final column. We'll all miss out on her regularly incisive media analysis:
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CIA unable to corroborate Israel’s ‘terror’ label for Palestinian rights groups
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“A deal is closer than it was two weeks ago but the outcome remains uncertain as some gaps remain. President Biden will only approve a deal that meets our national security interests.”
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🧵US Senior Admin Official in statement: “The President has been firm and consistent that he will not lift the terrorism designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps. Iran’s demand that we do so has been removed from the latest versions of the text. 1/2
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It has worked if aim was to give the upper hand to the most extreme elements of #Iran’s regime who want to walk away from the nuclear talks, kick out inspectors, leave NPT etc. One can look at years of Netanyahu’s opposition to the deal and conclude that it may have been the aim.
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Israeli officials concede that their current strategy of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists has not worked. timesofisrael.com/killing-of-top
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It’s more the opinion of hardliner’s base they are preparing. Much of the public has long been on the side of the deal/less confrontational foreign policy/ending sanctions that has contributed to the economic devastation the middle and lower classes are feeling.
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1 \ BREAKING: Israeli official: Israel sees Iran moving towards a nuclear deal and it is in process of preparing Iranian public opinion for such a scenario
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Wisconsin.
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Gov's race: Evers 45%, Michels 43%
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There have been reasons for optimism before, but on previous occasions expectations were not met. This time more than ever we have a great chance to cross the finish line at the #ViennaTalks.The final result depends on how the #US react to the last Iranian reasonable suggestions
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For the first time in many months, there was increasing optimism on Tuesday among European officials that a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal may actually be agreed upon by Iran and the United States. nyti.ms/3Qw4e0i
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Iran still has reservations about a draft deal to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. But the safeguards investigation may be moving toward resolution, according to a Western official.
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“The existence of potential witnesses who could yet cooperate against Trump – seemingly people with intimate knowledge of his activities – rattled close advisors…”
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NEW: Justice Dept asks to keep sealed the Mar-a-Lago affidavit to prevent revealing the direction of the criminal investigation — worsening distrust inside Trump’s circle that has no insight into where DOJ goes next. @GuardianUS theguardian.com/us-news/2022/a
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