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Democratic lawmakers call for immediate sanctions on Iran
Jewish Journal
January 6, 2016
Democratic lawmakers – opponents and supporters of the Iran nuclear deal – on Wednesday called on the Obama Administration to impose punitive sanctions on Iran without delay.
U.S. says weighs sanctions against Iran for ballistic missile test
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2016
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it was in discussions with other U.S. agencies on imposing sanctions against Iran for an Oct. 10 ballistic missile tests by Tehran that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Swiss envoy says: invest in Iran, Middle East’s ‘pole of stability’
Jewish Journal
August 27, 2015
Switzerland\’s ambassador on Thursday called Iran a \”pole of stability\” in the Middle East and urged companies to make the most of a lucrative market about to re-open after years of crippling sanctions.
The unending cost of killing the Iran deal
Mitch Paradise
August 11, 2015
In his 2006 book, “The Accidental Empire,” Gershom Gorenberg writes of Israel’s breathtakingly subtle, yet relentlessly evolving occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan.
Will the nuclear deal impact California’s sanctions against Iran? It appears not
Jared Sichel
July 22, 2015
As Congress debates whether to approve the Obama administration’s agreement to lift many of the United States’ sanctions against Iran in return for a temporary curb on its nuclear program, one particular paragraph in the 159-page deal has activists and politicians in California wondering how it could impact sanctions here in California — sanctions that may be valued in the billions of dollars.
Competing views of Iran deal highlight challenges ahead
Jewish Journal
April 13, 2015
Now that the outline for an Iran nuclear agreement has been released — or, more precisely, two outlines, one by Iran, the other by the Obama administration — major gaps have emerged that will need to be resolved ahead of a June 30 deadline for a final deal, including when sanctions on Iran are lifted.
Iran’s Khamenei breaks silence in nuclear deal, says sanctions must go
Jewish Journal
April 9, 2015
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said his country will sign a final deal on its nuclear program only if sanctions are immediately lifted.
Conflicting U.S., Iranian accounts on sanctions relief
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2015
After Iran and world powers agreed last week to a framework deal on curbing Iran\’s nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, Tehran and Washington seem to have different interpretations over how that will be done.
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