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So How’s Obama Going to Find the Senate GOP Votes for the Russia-Nuke Treaty

By | 03.30.10 | 10:10 am

When last we checked in on New START, the text of the nuclear deal with the Russians — which has not been released — didn’t impact missile defense, according to senior administration officials, but leading GOP senators still opposed it. That’s not a good sign for a deal More…

Iran Has Reportedly Rejected the Vienna Nuke Deal

By | 10.30.09 | 8:50 am

According to diplomats interviewed by The New York Times, Iran isn’t actually sending mixed messages on the deal reached in Vienna to process Iranian uranium outside the country and thereby put a year back on the clock counting down until Iran is likely to develop a nuclear bomb. It’s rejected More…

Iran: We’ll Tell You Next Week If We’re Taking This Nuke Deal

By | 10.23.09 | 4:20 pm

The Associated Press:

A top Iranian official said his country would respond next week to a United Nations-drafted plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for further enrichment.

The official, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s permanent envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Iran’s state Press TV on

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