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Press TV A senior Russian diplomat says the three European signatories to the Iran nuclear deal have failed to fulfill their commitments and are now blocking the negotiations to revive the US-abandoned agreement. Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov made the remarks in an interview with Russia’s daily broadsheet newspaper Izvestia. He said the talks to revive the nuclear deal – officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – have so far failed to yield any outcome due to insufficient efforts on the part of the European troika (France, Germany and Britain) as well as the United States. It is not the Iranians who are blocking the negotiations now as they are ready to resume the talks, he maintained....

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (2nd R) attends a bilateral talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (4th L), during the ministerial meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 8, 2023 [AHMED YOSRI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images] by Motasem A Dalloul abujomaa On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)’s summit that the Iranian regime is the biggest danger facing Israel because it has repeatedly threatened to attack Israel and destroy it. “We are clear-eyed about the many dangers that Israel faces in all of their forms. But there is no danger that Israel faces that is graver than the one posed by the Iranian regime,” Blinken said, pointing out that the Iranian regime “routinely threaten...