Iran Focus

London, 7 Aug – Retired US General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that despite the Obama administration’s attempts to reach a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear programme, the Tehran regime simply cannot be expected to show moderation. He argues in the Miami Herald on Friday that the only long-term solution to Iran’s nuclear aspirations, meddling in regional affairs and human-rights abuses, is a totally new system of governance based on democracy and secularism:

London, 3 Aug – The Obama administration must provide the US Congress details of the secret “Iran side deals before US lawmakers votes on whether to endorse the major power powers’ recent nuclear agreement with Iran, two senior US lawmakers wrote on Monday in The Wall Street Journal:

Release the Secret Iran Deals

The Wall Street Journal

Washington, 30 Jul – The Obama administration’s nuclear deal earlier this month with Iran does not prevent Tehran from having a “nuclear weapons capability”, an official of the main opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran has said.

“A closer look at the details of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, however, provides little cause for celebration”, Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the NCRI’s Washington office, wrote on Thursday in Roll Call.