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Trump imposes more sanctions on Iran after 4th round of nuclear talks
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Trump imposes more sanctions on Iran after 4th round of nuclear talks

By Frances Martel | Breitbart The U.S. Treasury Department announced sweeping sanctions on Tuesday against a network of corporations accused of helping Iran avoid sanctions on its oil industry by obscuring the true origin of the product. The move followed a separate round of sanctions on Iranian citizens accused of helping Iran expand its illicit nuclear weapons program on Monday — and, notably, a fourth round of negotiations between representatives of the Iranian regime and the administration of President Donald Trump that took place on Sunday. Iranian officials have repeatedly stated the objective of the talks is to convince Washington to drop sanctions on the country so the regime, the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism, can continue to enrich itself, while the Trump admin...
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Steve Witkoff ahead of round 4 of talks: Iran has agreed ‘they don’t want’ nuclear weapon
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Steve Witkoff ahead of round 4 of talks: Iran has agreed ‘they don’t want’ nuclear weapon

By Matthew Boyle | Breitbart Senior adviser and assistant to the president Steve Witkoff told Breitbart News exclusively that the government of Iran has told him that the Iranians have agreed they do not want a nuclear weapon. Witkoff, who made the explosive revelation in an exclusive long-form on-camera interview with Breitbart News on Thursday at the White House, is leading negotiations for President Donald Trump with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Witkoff is expected to meet with the Iranians, possibly as soon as this weekend, for a fourth round of talks in Oman, after two previous discussions in Iran and another in Rome. Witkoff will be meeting with them during a broader trip to the Middle East this upcoming week, where President Trump is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, the United...
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Trump: Prepared to attack Iran ‘Willingly’ with no nuclear deal
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Trump: Prepared to attack Iran ‘Willingly’ with no nuclear deal

By Charlie McCarthy  | Newsmax President Donald Trump warned that he could "very willingly" order the U.S. military to take out Iran's nuclear facilities if negotiations between the two countries fail to produce an agreement. Trump has repeatedly said Iran cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program will return Saturday to the secluded sultanate of Oman, where experts on both sides will start hammering the technical details of any possible deal. READ THE FULL STORY AT NEWSMAX
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Trump holding nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday
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Trump holding nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday

By Thomas Stevenson | The Post Millennial President Donald Trump has said that the United States will be dealing "directly" with Iran in a high-level meeting regarding a nuclear deal come this Saturday. He made the comments in Monday's White House appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we're dealing with them directly," the president told reporters from the Oval Office as he answered questions regarding trade as well as tariff policy with Netanyahu. Israel has promised to drop all trade barriers for US goods. The meeting will be the first time that the US will be meeting with Iran directly since Trump met with the country in 2018 when the US pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actio...
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Iran rejects direct negotiations with Trump over nuclear program
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Iran rejects direct negotiations with Trump over nuclear program

By Brady Knox | Washington Examiner Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected President Donald Trump‘s request for direct negotiations regarding the country’s fast-moving nuclear program. Delivering the message through the Sultanate of Oman, Pezeshkian said the U.S. hadn’t shown itself as a reliable negotiating party. “We don’t avoid talks; it’s the breach of promises that has caused issues for us so far,” he said in televised remarks during a Cabinet meeting, the Associated Press reported. “They must prove that they can build trust.” Despite this, Pezeshkian stressed that the possibility for indirect negotiations is still open. “In this response, although direct negotiations between the two parties are rejected, it has been stated that the p...
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White: Here are Trump’s options for dealing with an imminent nuclear threat that’s festered under Biden
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White: Here are Trump’s options for dealing with an imminent nuclear threat that’s festered under Biden

By Wallace White | Commentary, Daily Caller Iran has largely been left unchecked by the Biden administration in its goal to become a nuclear power, presenting President-elect Donald Trump with a significant foreign policy challenge that has few easy solutions. Iran, with its current stockpiles, can make a nuclear weapon with 60% enriched uranium in just one week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a November bulletin. The president-elect will have to choose a path quickly upon assuming office, such as renegotiating a deal to halt or slow Iran’s progress, military intervention or re-tooling sanctions that have so far been ineffective. “The United States needs another Middle East war like it needs a hole in the head,” Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign ...
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Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Warns Israel, U.S. of ‘Teeth-Breaking’ Attack
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Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Warns Israel, U.S. of ‘Teeth-Breaking’ Attack

By Simon Kent | Breitbart Israel and the U.S. will endure “teeth-breaking” retaliation after Israeli forces struck Iran military sites in late October, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday. “The enemies, both the U.S. and the Zionist regime, should know that they will definitely receive a teeth-breaking response for what they are doing against Iran and the resistance front,” Khamenei said while addressing a student group, UPI reports. “We are certainly doing everything necessary to prepare the Iranian nation to stand against arrogance, whether in terms of military readiness, armaments or political actions.” READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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National Review: The Biden-Harris Iran scandal gets worse
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National Review: The Biden-Harris Iran scandal gets worse

By Editorial Board | National Review The source of last week’s leak of U.S. intelligence about Israel’s plans to strike Iran, which has occasioned an investigation, isn’t yet known. What should be obvious, though, is that no individual who has had extensive contact with Iranian intelligence and diplomatic officials, and who has deferred to the direction of those officials before, should have ever been put in a sensitive position in the first place. The Biden administration has ignored this rather simple rule. The most glaring example of its questionable handling of the Iran portfolio is Biden Iran envoy Robert Malley’s continued employment by the State Department amid a probe into his handling of classified materials and the possibility that he shared information with the reg...
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US boots hit ground in Israel as threat from Iran looms
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US boots hit ground in Israel as threat from Iran looms

By Jake Smith | Daily Caller U.S. servicemembers arrived in Israel on Monday amid the country’s chaotic multifront war with various actors in the region, and more troops will arrive soon, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The Pentagon previously announced on Sunday that the troops would be deployed to the Middle East along with a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile battery system, meant to help Israel defend itself against potential aerial attacks against missile attacks from Iran. The approximately 100 troops that arrived on Monday will help operate the THAAD system, though the Pentagon wouldn’t say when it would be operational, given the sensitive security nature of the situation. “Over the coming days, additional U.S. military personnel and THAAD battery components ...
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 Iran Assassination Plots ‘Extraordinarily Serious’
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 Iran Assassination Plots ‘Extraordinarily Serious’

By Michael Katz   | Newsmax Iran's efforts to assassinate Donald Trump and former senior officials in retaliation for the drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani are more extensive and aggressive than previously believed, Politico reported Friday. "This is extraordinarily serious," Matt Olsen, the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general for national security, told Politico. "Iran has made it very clear that they are determined to seek retaliation against former officials in connection with the Soleimani strike." Iran has not been hiding its intentions to assassinate Trump and those who oversaw his national security strategy since January 2020, when Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Soleimani, Iran's most powerful military general, at an Iraqi air...
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