U.S. Politics
The legislation, which is 2,741 pages long, includes millions to protect synagogues, Iron Dome and Holocaust survivors, and is the culmination of months of negotiations.
“This game is costing us. This process of just holding and holding and holding makes no sense whatsoever,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s warning to Iran was likely a response to plans by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Gabriel Noronha, who was tasked with Iran policy at the U.S. State Department under former President Donald Trump, warns the deal currently being considered will see world powers roll back far more sanctions in return for far less from Iran.
While Democratic Majority for Israel’s Mark Mellman praised Biden’s four-point plan to tackle inflation, the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Sam Markstein said the address “ignored his administration’s failed agenda.”
Two sources involved in the Vienna talks said that Iran has made new demands while continuing its assistance on previous ones.
Kyiv’s goal in the talks is an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian forces from the country • U.S. suspends embassy operations in Minsk, authorizes departure of non-emergency employees from Moscow embassy.
The Baker administration also released its 2020 Massachusetts Hate Crimes Report, compiled from data submitted by law-enforcement agencies across the state.
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli’s opposition to Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s demand that pensions be raised for Israeli career soldiers has angered the latter’s close associates.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett did note that the United States rejected another Iranian appeal that International Atomic Energy Agency inspections into its military nuclear program be halted.
“Israel will always retain its freedom of action to defend itself,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, adding that Israel is “building unprecedented military capabilities. We have to be by far the strongest country in the region.”
If negotiators don’t come to an agreement, America’s European allies will have seen that there was an effort to get Iran back in compliance with the JCPOA and the international order, that Iran did not comply, and that sanctions must be implemented.
