Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif did not take kindly to Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-Arkansas) aggressive tweets challenging him to a debate. On Thursday, Zarif wrote on Twitter that Cotton had attacked him with "macho personal smear." The Iranian official also suggested Cotton should be concerned about the "peace" of his son Gabriel,who was born Monday ...

WASHINGTON While negotiators toiled late into the night in Switzerland, scratching together a nuclear agreement withIran, Senator Bob Corker was conducting his own tense talks back home. The new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Corker, a Tennessee Republican, was trying to marshal a bipartisan coalition for his bill to forcePresident ...

Republican opponentsof a framework agreement with Iran received millions in campaign donations in 2014 from pro-Israel billionaires and other influential American donors, according to a report. Republicans, now in control of both chambers of US Congress, are more ardently pro-Israel than ever before as they collected more money during the 2014 election ...

White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said that the letter from 367 US Congressmen to President Barack Obama regarding their concerns over the Iran's nuclear program showed their keen interest in the agreement. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The bipartisan letter from367 US Congressmen toPresident Barack Obama expressing concerns aboutIrans nuclear program ...

Tehran, March 22, IRNA -- Republican lawmakers in the US Congress are pushing to cut all US funding for activities related to the ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries, according to multiple sources. US Representatives Peter Roskam of Illinois and Lee Zeldin of New York are asking their colleagues on the House of Representatives ...

[caption id="attachment_156116" align="alignright" width="244"] FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks in National Harbor, Md. Eying the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio said March 17 he would "absolutely" defy stalwart European allies if necessary to revoke any Iranian nuclear deal he might inherit from President ...

[caption id="attachment_152042" align="alignright" width="209"] President Barack Obama speaks at the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Summit, Feb. 19, 2015, at the State Department in Washington.[/caption] WASHINGTONNo matter what happens with the negotiations over curbing Irans nuclear program, count on the issue being front and center during ...

[caption id="attachment_48700" align="alignright" width="223"] White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough[/caption] McDonough warned Congress against taking on the power to approve or disapprove the Iran agreement should one be reached. Senate Republicans are considering a new bill that empowering Congress vote to approve or disapprove the Iran ...

[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="199"] FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, then-Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. waves at his election watch party in North Little Rock, Ark., after defeating incumbent Sen.[/caption] The open letter from Senator Tom Cotton and 46 other Republican senators to the leadership of Iran, whicheven ...

[caption id="attachment_156091" align="alignright" width="215"] William Kristol, the founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel, at a conservative convention in 2011 (file photo)[/caption] A letter by Republican senators warning Iran about a nuclear deal with President Barack Obama was a neoconservative plan to undermine a possible agreement ...

[caption id="attachment_154809" align="alignright" width="209"] U.S Sen. Tom Cotton[/caption] US Senator Tom Cotton has slammed Washington for not significantly increasing the US military spending to confront an increasingly dangerous world that is being threatened by a new Adolf Hitler. Cotton reportedly received one million dollars from the ...

[caption id="attachment_150388" align="alignright" width="232"] Mehdi Hosseini, head of the Oil Contracts Revision Committee of Iran's Ministry of Petroleum[/caption] The US oil companies taking position against Republican senators who recently wrote a letter warning Iran against a nuclear deal with the US will be rewarded, a senior Iranian oil ...

[caption id="attachment_153940" align="alignright" width="209"] The Iranian and US delegations hold nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Montreux on March 2, 2015.[/caption] LAUSANNE, Switzerland The United States and Iran on Tuesday resumed talks that have become clouded by the warnings from Senate Republicans that any possible deal to restrain ...

[caption id="attachment_155881" align="alignright" width="232"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets US Secretary of State John Kerry in Lausanne on March 16, 2015.[/caption] LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Iranian diplomats twice confronted their American counterparts about an open letter from Republican senators who warned that any ...

[caption id="attachment_145857" align="alignright" width="209"] US President Barack Obama[/caption] Tehran, March 16, IRNA -- Several Democratic senators are breaking with the Obama administration on diplomacy with Iran, expressing their support for Republican legislation that would undercut a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, according to ...

[caption id="attachment_150604" align="alignright" width="195"] Iran's Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the measure by a group of US Republican senators to send a letter to Iran in defiance of a possible comprehensive agreement on Tehrans nuclear program was imprudent. "What ...

[caption id="attachment_154142" align="alignright" width="194"] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2015.[/caption] The Republicans' letter to Iran smoked out the mullahs' real game plan for trapping the United States as well as Obama's ...

[caption id="attachment_154809" align="alignright" width="209"] U.S Sen. Tom Cotton[/caption] Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stood by his decision Sunday tosend a letteron a burgeoning nuclear deal directly to Iranian leaders. He insisted on Face the Nation that Irans leaders need to hear the message loud and clear that an Obama-brokered deal might not ...

[caption id="attachment_153913" align="alignright" width="214"] The Iranian and US delegations hold nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Montreux on March 2, 2015.[/caption] Washington (CNN)No deal is better than a bad deal, say critics of President Barack Obama's nuclear talks with Iran. But what if Republican and Democratic opponents ...

[caption id="attachment_154843" align="alignright" width="195"] Sen. Tom Cotton said he'd "welcome" presidential candidates -- including Hillary Clinton -- to sign a controversial letter to Iran .[/caption] The U.S. media have been sadly incurious about the origins of yesterdays unprecedentedOpen Letter of 47 Republicansto the Iranian leadership ...