The National Interest | Matthew Petti: The State Department refused to go all-in on maximum pressureand Republican members of Congress are fuming. Republican hawks in Congress are outraged that foreign companies will still be allowed under U.S. law to work on four highly sensitive Iranian nuclear projects. U.S. Special Representative Brian Hook ...

Bloomberg - Two of the U.S. Senates staunchest opponents of the Iran nuclear deal drafted legislation that would bar President Donald Trump from renewing waivers allowing the Iran to maintain a limited civil nuclear program. The legislation from Republicans Ted Cruz of Texas and South Carolinas Lindsey Graham is part of a broader effort by hardline ...

Sputnik - A group of US senators is urging the Department of the Treasury to cut off Irans financial institutions from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication US Senator Ted Cruz and 15 other senators said in a letter to Treasury Secretary on Thursday. "We urge you to take all necessary steps to ensure the Society ...

MNA Senator Ted Cruz has accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of being unable to verify Irans compliance under the JCPOA, calling for forceful measures to improve IAEA access. Senator Ted Cruz in a tweet on Monday called on US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley to lead in imposing forceful measures to improve IAEA access,...

Politico | SEUNG MIN KIMandELANA SCHOR: President Donald Trump might soon toss the Iran nuclear deal back to Congress to decide its fate but its no sure thing that lawmakers would kill it for good. Critics of the Obama-era agreement, led by the president himself, appear to be on a mission to tank the accord. Naysayers in Congress are vowing to ...

Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio praised Iran's release of five detained Americans on Sunday, but sharply criticized the deal the White House made to win their freedom saying it would lead to more Americans being taken "hostage." U.S. President Barack Obama pardoned three Iranian-Americans charged for violating sanctions ...

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has been prevented from offering an amendment to a bill which would ban the Obama administration from implementing the Iran nuclear accord. During a voice vote on Monday, the presidential hopeful could not receive the necessary support from his colleagues for the amendment and thus was blocked from linking the Iran nuclear ...

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said Congress should use the threat of a government shutdown to force the White House to disclose "secret side deals" in the Iranian nuclear agreement. The Republican 2016 presidential candidate said on September 22 that the GOP-led Congress should fund the government after the end of the fiscal year on September 30 only if ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events: Irans deputy FM to visit Russia for talks Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian will travel to Moscow on Monday for talks on the Middle East developments. Iran rejects Sky News claim over prisoners swap An informed official at Irans Foreign ...

Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz has vowed to immediately rip to shreds the internationally-negotiated nuclear agreement with Iran. If I am elected president, on the very first day in office I will rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal, the Texas Republican said Wednesday night during the second GOP presidential ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's cozy relationship with billionaire businessman Donald Trump is drawing new attention as the Republican presidential contenders prepare to headline a Capitol Hill rally. At Cruz's invitation, Trump will appear with the Texas senator at a Wednesday event organized by tea party leaders and pro-Israel groups ...

The White House has criticized Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for planning an anti-Iran deal protest on Capitol Hill. Cruz and Trump plan to hold a protest on Sept. 9 on the West Front of the Capitol which will give them a megaphone to attack the Iran deal as two of the top GOP presidential candidates. Senator Cruz ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are expected to headline a Capitol Hill rally against President Obama's proposed nuclear agreement with Iran, both candidates confirmed Thursday. Trump, the Republican front-runner by far, announced the event during a 45-minute speech in South Carolina. Cruz aides said ...

In elaborating his priorities if elected president, Ted Cruz, a US Republican presidential candidate has said, I intend to cancel the Iran deal and move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. As Zionist lobbies including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) are in overdrive to step up their multi-million dollar campaign against the ...

US Republican presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz says President Barack Obamas efforts to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran would end in a military confrontation. "This deal makes war a certainty," the senator said on Tuesday about the results of the current nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group the US, Britain, Russia, China,...

US presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz says President Barack Obama has exacerbated racial tensions in the country amid ongoing protests over police brutality against black people. He has exacerbated racial misunderstanding, racial tensions, Cruz said at a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event on Wednesday. Hes made decisions that I think have ...

Sen. Ted Cruz say he'll do "everything humanly possible" to stop a nuclear deal with Iran - a stand that's drawn cheers from the Republican Jewish Coalition. Concerns about President Barack Obama's diplomatic efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program are dominating the group's meeting in Las Vegas on Saturday. A 2016 Republican presidential candidate,...

[caption id="attachment_147748" align="alignright" width="224"] Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leaves the stage after speaking at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.Charlie Neibergall/AP[/caption] Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)Sen. Ted Cruz argued Monday that any potential White House candidate who's not willing to reject the emerging ...

[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="158"] 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. Mark Pryor[/caption] European allies are joining the Obama administration in criticizing Republican congressional interjection ...

[caption id="attachment_147748" align="alignright" width="125"] Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leaves the stage after speaking at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.Charlie Neibergall/AP[/caption] The first 2016 presidential forum of the year revealed sharp divisions onforeign policySunday night, with Sen.Rand Paulbreaking with his colleagues ...