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What Lifting Iran's Sanctions Means For U.S. Businesses
The recent nuclear deal covers only a fraction of U.S. sanctions against Iran; most of the restrictions on businesses will stay in place. But there are exceptions. Who will benefit?
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The Iran Deal Strengthens America's Military Option
While reducing the chances the United States or Israel will resort to the military option, the Iran deal also increases their capabilities to do so.
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Obama Compares Critics of Iran Deal to Iraq War Hawks
President Obama said Tuesday that opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran were behaving like those who pushed for war with Iraq more than a decade ago, and said the United States should choose diplomacy instead of another rush to armed conflict.
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Inside the Iran Talks
How John Kerry and Javad Zarif spent twenty-two months negotiating the most significant nonproliferation agreement in decades. By Robin Wright.
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Lots of Lobbying on Iran Deal, But Few Changing Their Minds
Lots of Lobbying on Iran Deal, But Few Changing Their Minds | Israeli officials still trying to shore up Congressional opposition
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Obscure Particle Could Keep Iran Honest on Its Nuclear Deal
The IAEA needs to accurately monitor Iranian nuclear power reactors to track how much nuclear weapon-grade material they have.
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Senate Opens Iran Deal Hearing Amid Harsh Rhetoric
Senate Opens Iran Deal Hearing Amid Harsh Rhetoric | Kerry defends pact amid condemnations from Republican leaders
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Israel Security Establishment Breaks With Bibi on Iran Deal
Israel’s political leaders have lined up against the Iran deal. Not so its security establishment, which is urging Benjamin Netanyahu to work with the U.S. rather than fight a quixotic battle to scuttle the agreement, J.J. Goldberg reports.
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Investing in Iran after the lifting of sanctions
Just a few days after hosting a historic deal between Iran and the world powers on Tehran's nuclear programme and lifting international sanctions, Vienna has been the venue for deals of a different kind. For the first time in many years, an army of Iranian government officials descended on a business conference in the Austrian capital in a bid to attract foreign investors to Iran after the lifting of sanctions.
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Bioluminous Larak
Bioluminescent Plankton in Iran, by Pooyan Shadpoor
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Russian influence rises in the post-Iran deal Middle East
Before signing the Iran deal, Obama administration officials often repeated an "I think I can't" mantra.
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Iran’s Heat Index is Literally off the Charts, and This is What it Feels Like
On Friday, Bandar Mahshahr, Iran registered an air temperature of 115 degrees and a dew point of 90, an extraordinarily rare combination of heat and humidity. The resulting heat index – a measure of what the air feels like – hit 165 degrees.
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Iran official urges a speedy approval of the nuclear deal in Tehran, so that blame for any failure falls on US lawmakers
This happened in a "closed-door meeting" on Saturday and the information has leaked out.
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Brutal new poll shows a sharp plunge in support for the Iran deal
The new poll doesn't look good for the Obama administration, but that's not the whole story.
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Iranian Firefighter died while saving the lives of 60 hotel guests in Southern Iran (including 40 foreign nationals)
Barekat Jowzari, 42, was buried Saturday amid emotional scenes in the port city’s main cemetery, local sources said. The father of four reportedly died Friday after he gave his oxygen mask to people trapped in a huge blaze in the five-star Hormuz Hotel. The hours-long operation saw around 60 guests rescued, including 40 foreign nationals, but Jowzari suffered brain death and passed away.
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Iranian Hostage Crisis: West Germany's Secret Role in Ending the Drama - SPIEGEL ONLINE
In 1981, Jimmy Carter said the world could never know West Germany's role in the negotations for the release of 52 hostages from the US Embassy in Tehran. New research sheds light on the important part the country played in ending the crisis.
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The Iran Nuclear Deal: The Forest and the Trees - The Equation
We’ve all seen the stories about the Iran nuclear deal, which was concluded on July 14 between Iran, Britain, China, France, Russia, Germany, the United States and the European Union. What does it really mean for U.S. and global security?
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One of the most powerful Democrats is being torched by liberals after coming out against Obama's Iran deal
Schumer, the Senate's No. 3-ranking Democrat who is next in line to lead his caucus, was set to reveal that he would buck the leader of his party — the president of the US — and vote against the Iran nuclear deal that has become a cornerstone of the president's emerging foreign-policy legacy.
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Sen. Schumer's Opposition Not Expected to Kill Iran Deal
Sen. Schumer's Opposition Not Expected to Kill Iran Deal | White House warns Schumer opposes pact at his own 'peril'
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Tehran,Iran
Picture taken in July, 2015.
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