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Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, nominated to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that sanctions relief would allow Iran to increase their sponsorship of terrorism during a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing Tuesday.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R., S.D.) asked Selva if Iran was provided sanctions relief with the nuclear deal, would Iran use the funds to increase its sponsorship of terrorism.
“Senator, I haven’t yet had the opportunity to study the entire agreement. But on its face, what I’ve heard from the press, the immediate lifting of sanctions or the sequential lifting of sanctions will give Iran the access to more economic assets with which to sponsor state terrorism should they choose to do so,” Selva said.
Bobby Ghosh, the managing editor of Quartz, told CNN on Tuesday that “unquestionably the big winner” of the nuclear deal announced earlier that day is Iran.
“Iran is unquestionably the big winner,” Ghosh said. “Look at where the fireworks are going off. There are no fireworks going off in Washington, London, and Berlin, but in Tehran, Moscow, and Beijing, there is boisterous celebration.”
Iran struck a deal with P5+1 negotiators after two weeks of intense—at times heated—negotiations.
The deal will allow Iran to continue spinning thousands of centrifuges to produce enriched uranium, which can be used to build a nuclear weapon. It will also loosen sanctions on Iran’s financial transactions and arms trade with rogue regimes and terrorist organizations, sanctions relief which amounts to a financial and strategic windfall for the Islamic republic.
Ghosh said that the deal amounts to a “gamble” by the Obama administration, which hopes that exposure to Western values and diplomacy will change Iran’s mind about Israel, the U.S., and the utility of pursuing nuclear weapons.
“The Obama administration is making a bet that they [Iran’s leaders] say, okay, we’ve had 10 or 15 good years and we don’t need nukes. Thats a big proposition,” Ghosh said.
Once the agreement sunsets, Ghosh said that Iran—newly enriched by sanctions relief, economic development aid, and Western business ties—will be able to pursue nuclear weapons if it chooses to.
“If they want to increase enrichment towards making nuclear weapons, this agreement allows them and we don’t get a do-over,” Ghosh said.
The nuclear deal will also aid Iran’s embattled ally in Damascus.
“The second big winner is [Syrian dictator] Bashar Assad,” Ghosh said. “He depends hugely on Iranian money, Iranian weapons, and Iranian military personnel, all three of which he can now get more of now because his patrons have more money to play with.”
Bloomberg reports that Iran spent “between $14 billion and $15 billion in military and economic aid” in 2012 and 2013 to prop up the Syrian war machine, in addition to providing military personnel from the Quds Force and Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy terrorist army.
When sanctions relief takes effect and the arms embargo is lifted, Iran will pocket tens of billions of dollars to spend on its extracurricular activities.
“This completely changes the world,” Ghosh said of the deal. “Does it change it for the better? It changes it for the better for the Iranians and Bashar al-Assad.”
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A poll conducted in advance of the nuclear arms deal announcementTuesday shows that a majority of Americans do not trust Iran to hold itself to the terms of an agreement meant to restrict the country’s nuclear program.
The survey, released Tuesday by Monmouth University, shows that 55 percent of U.S. adults would not trust Iran at all to obey an agreement that would scale back the country’s nuclear program and grant independent inspections of its facilities.
While 35 percent would trust Iran “a little,” only 5 percent would place “a lot” of faith in the country to abide by the deal terms.
The survey was conducted between July 9 and 12, days before world leaders put finishing touches on the deal in Vienna and announced its completion Tuesday.
The agreement, now subject to a review by Congress, would lift international sanctions on Iran while allowing the country to press on with crucial elements of its nuclear work, research, and development.
“The pact with Iran faces an uncertain future in Congress,” explained Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth University polling. “A major sticking point with the American public is a sense that Tehran really can’t be trusted to keep its part of the bargain.”
The poll also indicates that 49 percent of Americans believe attempting to reach a deal with Iran is a good thing, while 36 percent deem it a bad move. A majority of Democrats see the attempt positively, while a majority of Republicans do not.
Multiple congressional Democrats have voiced their opposition to a key concession made to Iran in the agreement.
Republican lawmakers such as Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have strongly criticized the deal.
The United States and other world powers will help to teach Iran how to thwart and detect threats to its nuclear program, according to the parameters of a deal reached Tuesday to rein in Iran’s contested nuclear program.
Under the terms of a deal that provides Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief, Iran and global powers will cooperate to help teach Iran how to manage its nuclear infrastructure, which will largely remain in tact under the deal.
Senior Iranian officials, including the country’s president, celebrated the deal as a victory for the country. Iran’s state controlled media quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying that the deal will “remove all sanctions while maintaining [Tehran’s] nuclear program and nuclear progress.”
In what is being viewed as a new development, European countries and potentially the United States agreed to “cooperate with Iran on the implementation of nuclear security guidelines and best practices,” according to a copy of the agreement furnished by both the Russians and Iranians.
This will include “training courses and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to prevent, protect and respond to nuclear security threats to nuclear facilities and systems as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems,” according to the text.
Additional “training and workshops” would work to “strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems,” the text states.
The language was viewed as disturbing by analysts and experts who said such cooperation could help protect Iran against efforts by the Israelis or other countries to sabotage the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in the future.
“The United States and its partners have just become the international protectors of the Iranian nuclear program. Instead of rolling back the Iranian nuclear program, we’re now legally obligated to help the Iranians build it up and protect it,” said one Western source present in Vienna and who is apprised of the details of the deal.
In addition to teaching Iran how to protect its nuclear infrastructure, world powers pledge in the agreement to help Iran construct next-generation centrifuges—the machines that enrich uranium—at its once-secret nuclear site in Fordow, where Iran has been suspected of housing a weapons program.
Fordow is an underground and fortified military site that is largely immune from air strikes by those seeking to eradicate Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
While Iran will not be permitted to enrich nuclear material with these centrifuges, the know-how gained from operating these advanced centrifuges could help it advance clandestine nuclear weapons work, experts say.
The Obama administration had once vowed that Iran would have to fully dismantle its centrifuge program. However, this demand was walked back as the Iranians demanded greater concessions over the past months.
“Now the international community will be actively sponsoring the development of Iranian nuclear technology,” Omri Ceren, an analyst from the Israel Project (TIP), wrote in an email to reporters. “And since the work will be overseen by a great power, it will be off-limits to the kind of sabotage that has kept the Iranian nuclear program in check until now.”
Meanwhile, Iranian President Rouhani celebrated the deal in a speech that detailed how the country received everything it was looking for from the United States.
This includes the full rollback on sanctions on Iran’s financial, energy, and banking sectors, as well as others, and the suspension of international resolutions banning the sale of arms to Tehran.
Iran will also move forward with work on its advanced centrifuges and also “continue its nuclear research and development,” according to Rouhani’s comments. “All our goals materialized under the deal,” Rouhani said, according to Fars.
Iran’s nuclear reactors in Arak—which could provide with a second pathway to a nuclear weapon—also will continue to operate under the deal. It will continue in conjunction with the nuclear enrichment plants located in Fordow and Natanz.
Rouhani went on to say that Iran “will scrutinize implementation of the agreement” to ensure that the United States and other world powers uphold their end of the bargain.
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Film-maker whose documentary about Edward Snowden won an Oscar says she has been held for hours at a time by airport officials, told she was on a no-fly list and threatened with handcuffs for taking notes
The Oscar-winning documentary film-maker Laura Poitras is suing the US government demanding to know why she has repeatedly been subjected to “Kafkaesque harassment” at airports across the world.
Poitras, 51, said she had been held at borders more than 50 times between 2006 and 2012, often for hours at a time. At various times she alleges being told by officials that she was on a “no fly” list, having her electronic equipment confiscated and not returned for 41 days, and being threatened with handcuffs for taking notes. The latter incident took place when she was working on a film about the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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In the wake of the conclusion of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the Tel Aviv regime will not "be bound by this deal."
After decades as an isolated rogue state, Iran appears to be finally coming in from the cold. And after decades of pretending to be a partner to the West, Russia has gone rogue.
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KYIV, Ukraine — A deadly weekend shootout between police and camouflaged gunmen might have seemed commonplace in eastern Ukraine, where security forces are battling Russian-backed insurgents.
Except for one thing: It took place on the other side of the country — only a short distance from the European Union’s border.
And this time, the militants were members of Right Sector, an ultranationalist paramilitary group that’s been fighting on the front lines for Ukraine.
The shootout happened Saturday outside a sports club in the far-flung western region of Zakarpattia and left at least two dead.
About a dozen gunmen fled to a nearby forest. By Monday evening, they were reportedly still hiding from security forces.
Boys look on Monday as Ukrainian security forces comb the village of Bobrovyshche, near the small town of Mukacheve where a shootout occurred Saturday. The troops are trying to locate and arrest Right Sector fighters.
The incident has sparked renewed concerns that Ukraine — while dependent on armed volunteer forces like Right Sector to fight separatists in the east — is ill-prepared at keeping them under control outside the war zone.
“What happened in Zakarpattia was more reminiscent of Colombia than Europe,” journalist-turned-parliamentarian Serhiy Leshchenko wrote, referring to the South American country plagued by paramilitary violence.
It’s unclear how Saturday’s shootout started.
Right Sector claims it was attacked by crooked cops and private guards serving a local politician involved in a lucrative cigarette-smuggling ring. It said was doing its patriotic duty by cracking down on the illicit business.
Others believe the two sides were actually vying for control over the racket, with another powerful politician backing Right Sector.
The above footage, posted to YouTube by Ukrainian lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem, is believed to be taken at Saturday's shootout, although GlobalPost could not independently verify its authenticity.
Observers say the assault represents a greater problem in post-revolution Ukraine, which is still struggling to root out corruption and strengthen its security services.
“The conflict in Mukachevo exposed all the weak points of the Ukrainian law enforcement system and the government in general, showing its inability to anticipate these kinds of developments as well as swiftly and authoritatively react to them,” read an investigative report in Ukrayinska Pravda, a leading news site.
A militant political group that grew out of last year’s street revolution, Right Sector has long made headlines in Ukraine.
Its formal political influence remains marginal. But its prowess in battle, controversial, nationalist beliefs, and disproportionate coverage in Russian state media have earned the group infamy.
Kyiv has relied on an array of paramilitary outfits, some of them tainted by fringe ideologies andaccusations of abuse behind the lines.
The government has incorporated most of those battalions into the Interior and Defense Ministries. But Right Sector has remained largely outside the formal command structure and has been vocally critical of the authorities.
Some supporters say these volunteer combatants, who’ve fought in most major battles, have earned a bad rap over a few bad apples.
Semen Semenchenko, a prominent parliamentarian and commander of the Donbass Battalion, another key volunteer force, warned against jumping to conclusions over the shootout. He says that while Right Sector fighters may have been responsible, corrupt officials in various local agencies were also likely involved.
“The guilty need to answer for this, but it’s unnecessary to turn this into a campaign … against volunteers,” Semenchenko said on Ukrainian television Sunday.
There are signs the authorities might be getting that message.
On Monday, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk ordered the dismissal of all regional customs officials in Zakarpattia, pending a full investigation.
Later, President Petro Poroshenko blamed both sides of the conflict and also pointed to the contraband racket as the primary cause.
For its part, Right Sector has staged small protests in major cities, drawing support from other volunteer fighters. They’re demanding the ouster of all officials tied to the shootout and the smuggling ring, as well as that of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
Members of Ukraine's Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) and their supporters stand in front of National Guard soldiers during a rally in Kyiv on Saturday.
Right Sector chief Dmytro Yarosh, also a parliament lawmaker, has sought to ease tensions by denying reports that members across the country were mobilizing to the region in support of their comrades. Instead, he’s in talks with top officials to end the standoff.
But even if he reaches a deal, experts say, there’s no guarantee the fighters will lay down their arms.
That’s because Right Sector, a country-wide network of political organizations and armed, often fervently outspoken battalions, is too unstructured to control, says Vadim Karasyov, a Kyiv-based political analyst.
Then there’s the other problem the shootout helped highlight: the influx of weapons into private hands since war broke out last year.
Controlling the flow will be a long-term problem for the government, Karasyov added, especially now that they’re ending up in other parts of the country.
“For that you need a strong army, strong security services, strong special forces — something Ukraine has never had, and still doesn’t have,” he said.
Still, critics warn of dire consequences if the authorities fail to rein in rogue fighters.
“If it is not stopped now, the next time they will be firing grenade launchers in the center of Kyiv,” Leshchenko, the journalist-turned-politician wrote, “hiding behind tales of patriotism and punishing the corrupt.”
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New justice secretary Michael Gove says he is interested in reform. There is plenty to work on in English and Welsh prisons
The last report – absolutely the last – from Nick Hardwick, who has not had his contract renewed as chief inspector of prisons in England and Wales, reveals a national scandal. Taking up his job in 2010 just as Ken Clarke, the first Conservative justice secretary, promised a rehabilitation revolution, Mr Hardwick has charted not a revolution but an inexorable decline in all the indicators by which healthy prisons are measured. Attacks by prisoners on each other and on prison officers are up, deaths in prison up, suicides up, serious assaults up, overcrowding up. About the only things that are falling are the number of prison officers and the amount of purposeful activity done by prisoners. This is no way to run a prison service, and the people who work in it know that. If the new justice secretary, Michael Gove, is as interested in reform as he has indicated, here surely is the place to start.
On Monday, Mr Gove announced that not only can prisoners after all receive books from family and friends following the high court ruling against a ban imposed by his predecessor Chris Grayling, but they could keep up to 12 in their cell. Mr Gove said his decision was influenced by the US conservative social policy guru Arthur Brooks, of the American Enterprise Institute thinktank. In a refreshing change from the usual language of punishment, he quoted Mr Brooks’ view that all human beings should be seen as assets, not liabilities. Other voices from the American right are said to be influencing Mr Gove. One libertarian thinktank, Right on Crime, argues against long prison sentences and in favour of innovative rehabilitation solutions in the name of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. It highlights success stories such as a Texas partnership between local employers and prisoners due for release, and another scheme that automatically closes public access to juvenile criminal records, making it more likely that they find work. Reform in the US has been driven by the soaring cost of prisons in a country where more people are locked up than anywhere else on Earth. States such asCalifornia, Texas and New York have all cut prison numbers and spending without a corresponding increase in crime.
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As news of a nuclear deal spread on Tuesday, Iranians reacted with a mix of jubilation, cautious optimism and disbelief that decades of a seemingly intractable conflict could be coming to an end.
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran’s state TV says the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed his gratitude to Iranian negotiating team for concluding the deal with world powers in Vienna over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
The report late Tuesday says Khamenei voiced his “appreciation and thanked the Iranian nuclear negotiators for their honest and diligent efforts.”
It says Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and Iranian Cabinet members.
Tehran and six world powers reached the landmark deal earlier in the day. The deal is meant to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
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Two people were shot on Coney Island Avenue, Monday evening.
The incident happened around 8:00PM at 862 Coney Island Avenue, between Ditmas Avenue and 18th Avenue.
A law enforcement source tells YWN that both victims were shot on the street by one suspect. East Midwood Vol. AMbulance and FDNY Paramedics were on the scene treating the victims. One appeared to have been shot in the leg, and the other shot in the chest. Both victims were transported to Kings County Hospital.
The NYPD requested a Level 1 Mobilization Response, to bring additional units to canvass the area in search of the perpetrator who fled on foot.
The description of the suspect was not immediately available.
Coney Island Avenue was closed as a crime scene was secured and detectives begin their investigation.
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President Obama sought to reassure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call Tuesday following the announcement that world leaders had come to an agreement on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Obama told Netanyahu, who opposes the deal, that the nuclear agreement “will not diminish our concerns regarding Iran’s support for terrorism and threats toward Israel,” according to a description of the call provided by the White House.
Israel and its supporters have repeatedly expressed concern that easing sanctions on Iran in return for Iran’s promises to curtail its nuclear program could endanger Israel, particularly given Iran’s support for groups that have attacked Israel and Iranian leaders’ previous statements against the country. Netanyahu called the deal a mistake of “historic proportions” on Tuesday and promised to continue trying to block final passage.
According to the White House’s description of Obama’s call to Netanyahu, the President “underscored his Administration’s stalwart commitment to Israel’s security and noted that the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] will remove the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran, an outcome in the national security interest of the United States and Israel.”
Obama also told Netanyahu that Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s planned travel to Israel next week is a “reflection of the unprecedented level of security cooperation between the United States and Israel.”
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A tourist was forced to her knees as knifepoint at Rome?s Colosseum, in a terrifying attack that recalled an ISIS-style execution. Hundreds of horrified visitors to the Italian landmark looked on as the attacker held a kitchen knife to the neck of a 26-year-old woman and yelled 'Allah is great' and ?It is God that sends me?. The man held the Italian woman hostage for several minutes as he yelled religious fanaticism at the crowd with police powerless to act. One witness said: ?It seemed like a scene from ISIS. He made the girl get down on her knees like you see in the terrorists' videos, while he held a knife to her throat. The only thing missing was the orange jumpsuit.' Others told Il Messaggero he was yelling 'incomprehensible things, but among them "Allah is great"'. Chiara Frisco, from Vasto on the Adriatic coast, who was visiting her sister in Rome to celebrate her graduation, said she feared ?the worst? when the knifeman grabbed her. Speaking from hospital where sh
More people are in prison in America than anywhere else in the world. President Obama and politicians from both parties want to change that.
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US conservatives strongly criticise the deal reached between major world powers and Iran that limits Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of sanctions.
Obama warns skeptical Congress not to stand in way of landmark Iran nuclear deal
However much Bibi Netanyahu of Israel and the Gulf sultans rage at the Vienna agreement, the Arabs at least will suspect the truth: that the Americans have taken the Shia Muslim side in the Middle East’s sectarian war.
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The United States has offered everything it has to help capture the notorious drug kingpin, but so far the Mexicans have kept the Americans at bay.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces conducted 20 air strikes in Iraq on Monday against Islamic State forces, concentrating on the Anbar province cities of Ramadi and Falluja, and seven more in Syria, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations said on Tuesday.
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Lawmakers have 60 days to review the agreement, and they could vote to block Congress from lifting sanctions
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