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Earlier on Sunday the head of the chamber’s National Security Commission, Mojtaba Zolnour, said he was leading efforts to prevent the restoration of the nuclear agreement without full parliamentary approval and said lawmakers must be present in the Vienna meetings, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
The European Union will chair the talks in Vienna, where envoys are trying to synchronize a U.S. return to and Iranian compliance with the 2015 agreement. After Trump jettisoned the accord and unilaterally imposed punishing sanctions on Iran, Tehran’s government ramped up its nuclear capacity and production of enriched uranium.
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Breaking the Israel-Palestine Status Quo
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Summary: A new U.S. approach should prioritize protecting the rights and human security of Palestinians and Israelis over maintaining a peace process and attempting short-term fixes.
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Resetting U.S. Policy
After decades of on-and-off negotiations and failed peace initiatives, it is time for a shift in U.S. policy toward Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Jettisoning former president Donald Trump’s Peace to Prosperity plan is a vital step, but it will not be enough to move beyond the status quo. Instead of reviving a moribund peace process or simply abandoning U.S. engagement, President Joe Biden’s administration should place a rights-based approach at the center of its strategy.
important here to note is that secretary pompeo came out over the weekend and said that it was iran, unequivocally, that was to blame and called on all nations to condemn this attack. and now we have seen sort of a dialing back in the rhetoric, the president saying that military action is still on the table, but not explicitly yet saying that iran is to blame. and as kaitlan noted, when president trump was asked if the u.s. will defend saudi arabia, the president said that he hadn t made that promise to saudi arabia yet. so as secretary pompeo travels to the country and meets with saudi officials, we re likely to hear more about where the u.s. is headed, when they decide what they re going to do here alongside saudi. these were very precise strikes, either with cruise missiles or drones. the houthi rebels in yemen, they ve claimed responsibility, but the u.s. intelligence community, i take it, doesn t believe that they have the capability of launching strikes like this?
don t see it in the same way you guys are describing it, which is a real threat? i think it fits into an overall pattern of dialing back what little resources was devoted to this issue. you know, in 2018, we had the preeminent counterterrorism program for state and local law enforcement defunded. it was called the state and local anti-terrorism training. this was the only training that federal government was offering to state and local law enforcement to educate them on domestic terrorist threats. we also had grant funding to three organizations that were devoted to countering violent white nationalism. they were the first granted money to try to pull people out of the movements and try to reacclimate them into society and they had their funding pulled. it s not surprising to see that this office at homeland security was severely had its budget cut and staffing reduced. we re seeing some of the consequences of that probably play out. nick and daryl, thank you both very much. an