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News and Analysis (7/15/19)
Is this Trump’s big chance? Is he smart enough to seize it? Iran’s President Said They Would Hold Talks with the US if It Returns to the 2015 Nuclear Deal (Business Insider) British FM Jeremy Hunt promised Javad Zarif to return the ship if Iran satisfies the Gibraltar court that the ship is not bound…
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News and Analysis (7/12/19)
Of Netanyahu’s eugenically tainted claims, archaeologist and University College London professor Dr. David Wengrow says, “There’s so much wrong here I almost don’t know where to start”: Archaeologists on Twitter Tear Down Netanyahu’s Claims that Palestinians Have ‘No Connection’ to Homeland (Mondoweiss) For Iran, as “for most of the developing world, the key events of…
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News and Analysis (7/9/19)
The root cause of the current Persian Gulf crisis is the US withdrawal in May 2018 from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action … Trump’s Zigzags on Iran Threaten US Alliance Structure (ASPI Strategist) … and here are five reasons why “the United States is in the wrong—politically, diplomatically, and even legally” in its dispute…
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Q&A on Saudi-American Relations
Q. What’s your perspective on U.S.-Saudi relations from their beginning till now? A. The U.S. has been entangled in Saudi fortunes through the engagement of America I the Saudi oil industry. American entrepreneurs helped to create ARAMCO and the American public is dependent on Saudi oil. This entanglement has made the Saudi’s an American client…
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News and Analysis (7/6/19)
The U.S. President has “confronted Iran with a series of actions that are … as mercurial, ineffective and antagonizingly provocative as those that George III and his parliament hurled at the 13 colonies” … US Policy on Iran and the Echoes of Britain’s 1776 Folly (The Hill) … Mr. Trump, please take the hint: Iran…
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News and Analysis (7/4/19)
“Unlike “‘literalist religious doctrine’ … on which these new abortion laws are based, … Islam actually encourages different interpretation of the law, leading to a number of valid legal opinions … which Muslims can follow”: Responses and Reflections as American Muslims Are Pulled into the Abortion Debate (Euro-Islam) Gen. “Keane’s reference to the United States’…
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News and Analysis (7/1/19)
“We have NOT violated the #JCPOA. … We triggered … para 36 after US withdrawal. We gave [notice] … reserving our right … [and] took action after 60 weeks. As soon as E3 abide by their obligations, we’ll reverse”: Iran Nuclear Deal: Tehran Exceeds Enriched Uranium Limit (Al-Jazeera) “Israel decided to demolish homes and remove…
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News and Analysis (6/29/19)
Donald Rumsfeld called the Guantanamo detainees the worst of the worst, but NCIS special agent Robert McFadden found “not one approaching even the most liberal interpretation of a ‘high value detainee’”: The Prisoner of Echo Special (New Yorker) “Muslims … have played a key role in swinging elections”: In This Next Presidential Campaign, Let’s Include…
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News and Analysis (6/24/19)
Rather than pursue “Iran’s capitulation on behalf of Saudi Arabia and Israel,” the U.S. should cooperate “with European partners … [to constrain] Iran’s nuclear activities and reopen channels of communication with Tehran” … Trump Was Right Not to Bomb Iran. Now He Needs a Strategy (Washington Post) Fox News host Tucker Carlson warned Trump that…
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News and Analysis (6/20/19)
Tom Cotton and Tucker Carlson push and pull Trump in opposite directions on war with Iran … Tom Cotton Wages Lonely Campaign to Attack Iran (Politico) Tucker Carlson Tells Trump in Private: No War With Iran (Daily Beast) … but the Constitution says it is a decision only Congress can make: GOP Lawmaker on Iran:…
