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Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes addresses journalists on the foreign-policy priorities of the Obama administration, in particular a deal to hold Iran's nuclear program at bay, at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2014. Credit: U.S. State Department.

Can we trust the media to report the truth about a new Iran deal?

As a partisan press continues to lose credibility, the treatment of Biden’s appeasement policy is providing yet another reason why many Americans don’t believe what journalists tell them.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Feb. 21, 2022

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2015. Credit: U.S. Mission/Eric Bridiers.

We can’t predict what Biden’s foreign-policy advisers will advise

Are they and will they be gurus, Svengalis or yes men?

Clifford D. May

Dec. 16, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents Iranian nuclear files to reporters at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2018. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

How not to negotiate

We have to dispel the illusion in the foreign-policy establishment that a deal, any deal, is the penultimate objective of diplomacy.

Sarah N. Stern

Dec. 11, 2020

Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes addresses journalists on the foreign-policy priorities of the Obama administration, in particular a deal to hold Iran's nuclear program at bay, at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2014. Credit: U.S. State Department.

Fakhrizadeh’s welcome death enrages American ‘doves’

Caught between economic pressure and surgical strikes, the Iranian regime is in a panic. But U.S. diplomacy obsessives are waiting in the wings to resume appeasement.

Ruthie Blum

Dec. 1, 2020

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (right) and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

The coronavirus is no reason to let the Iranian regime off the hook

If Iran is suffering from the virus, the blame belongs to terror-supporting theocratic tyrants and Obama’s appeasement, not Trump’s sanctions.

Jonathan S. Tobin

March 20, 2020

Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes addresses journalists on the foreign-policy priorities of the Obama administration, in particular a deal to hold Iran's nuclear program at bay, at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2014. Credit: U.S. State Department.

Ben Rhodes is back for more Israel-bashing

Rhodes has harsh opinions about Israel. He seems proud that he helped trick the public into accepting the Iran nuclear deal. And he’s proud of his role in Obama’s policies towards Israel—in fact, he regrets that they weren’t harsher.

Stephen M. Flatow

April 5, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during joint statements with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the president's residence in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Report: Trump team hired Israeli firm to dig up dirt on Obama officials

Documents obtained by newspapers in the United Kingdom confirm that Trump administration officials asked unnamed Israeli intelligence firm to probe private and public lives of Obama administration officials involved in negotiating 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

May 6, 2018