Press TV - The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is voicing admiration for US President Donald Trump over his decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the Israeli regimes capital. The powerful lobby group launched its annual conference at the Washington convention center on Sunday, with an appeal to progressives. To my friends ...

[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_153922" align="alignright" width="158"] US National Security Advisor Susan Rice speaks during an AIPAC conference on March 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (AFP)[/caption] There is no way for Iran to unlearn the capabilities it has gained in the nuclear energy sector, says US National Security Adviser Susan Rice. Addressing ...

[caption id="attachment_153904" align="alignright" width="188"] Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, March 2, 2015.CREDIT: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST[/caption] (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will escalate his campaign against ...

[caption id="attachment_153868" align="alignright" width="165"] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures while speaking at the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- En route to what he described as a "fateful mission,...

[caption id="attachment_54141" align="alignright" width="187"] President Barack Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's national security adviser says a bad nuclear deal with Iran is worse than no deal at all. Susan Rice is speaking to the annual meeting of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. Her ...

WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress on Tuesday has spawned a bitter debate on two continents, but there was no apparent dissent at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday. Whether House Speaker John Boehner should have invited Netanyahu to come right before his tough ...

[caption id="attachment_153668" align="alignright" width="194"] Senator Ben Cardin participates in a discussion at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. on Sunday. PHOTO: PETE MAROVICH/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY[/caption] President Obama Sending Two Top Foreign Policy Aides to Address the Conference on ...

[caption id="attachment_152126" align="alignright" width="173"] Last year's conference was attended by John Kerry. Photo by AFP[/caption] The administration has been signaling that this year's conference of America's leading pro-Israel lobby may not be attended by a Cabinet-level guest. The White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu is going to the US to discuss the Iran nuclear threat, and Congress is the right place for that. It doesn't matter that US President Barack Obama has refused to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in March, sincetheIsraeli leader is going toWashington to speak to Congress and meet with members of AIPAC, said Likud ...

A powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States is pushing for tougher sanctions against Iran in response to a deal that extendednuclear talks between Tehran and six world powers. AIPAC, a widely influential group in Congress, is trying to persuade Washington to reinstate all economic sanctions that were suspended during the negotiations, according ...

(Reuters) - A seven-month extension in talks between world powers andIranon a deal to curb its nuclear program emboldened critics in Washington and Tehran, threatening to undermine further talks. After failing to clinch an agreement that would limit Iran's nuclear program in return for lifting stifling U.S.-led economic sanctions, the sides agreed ...

(Reuters) - As the United States and other powers negotiate down to the wire on a nuclear deal withIran, one voice has been unusually quiet - the main pro-Israel lobby in Washington. Israeldeeply distrusts the attempt to reach a deal at talks in Vienna that would lift harsh international sanctions onIranin return for limits to its nuclear program,...

[caption id="attachment_108626" align="alignright" width="213"] US President Barack Obama turns to greet board members after addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).[/caption] The official name for Israel's latest assault on Gaza is "Operation Protective Edge." A better name would be "Operation Dj Vu." As it has on several ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces for Cultural Affairs and Defense Publicity Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri underlined the failure of the western states, specially the US, in forcing Iran to give in to pressures in the past 35 years. Brigadier General Jazayeri's remarks came after some American and Israeli think tanks ...

Clearly, Congress has an important role in implementing any comprehensive, final-phase agreement between the P5+1 andIranto ensureIrans nuclear programme will be exclusively peaceful. Those talks are now underway inVienna. In that role, members of the Senate and House have a responsibility to support the efforts of the P5+1 on the basis of a clear ...

SAN DIEGOJudy and I just returned from AIPACs National Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. This was my third Policy Conference and Judys first. The number of attendees grows each year. This time 14,000 supporters of Israel were present, including 2,300 students. The participants are surprisingly diverse. In addition to Jews, Christians, Blacks, Latinos,...

Tehran, March 7, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkahm on Friday reacted to the Zionist regime?s recent claims against Iran by describing them as ?amateurish, vague and mere lies which can only be made by sick minds.?   According to a report by Foreign Ministry?s Media Diplomacy Department, Afkham said the claims and extensive ...

Mohammad Javad Zarif tweets that Israels high seas arms bust is same failed lies, timed to line up with AIPAC. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his skepticism Thursday at Israeli and US claims that the Israeli Navy had seized a ship carrying a cache of illicit Iranian arms. An Iranian ship carrying arms for Gaza, read a tweet ...

The US government is under pressure from the most powerful pro-Israel lobby group to adopt tough approaches vis--vis Irans nuclear issue, an analyst tells Press TV in an interview. Alison Weir said on Wednesday that US President Barack Obama still has to play to the Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which expects ...