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23 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
For Daniel Pipes & “the Middle East Forum, ...bankrolled by..right-wing donors — incl. Nina Rosenwald,... & the Gatestone Institute, which has financial ties to ... Rebekah & Robert Mercer — Tommy Robinson became an anti-Islam cause célèbre.” Now he’s turning to Russia for $$.
Pipes acknowledged to NYT that Robert Shillman, a billionaire Trump supporter & chief exec of Cognex Corp, was a Middle East Forum donor. Another NYT source said Shillman was also a major funder of June 9, 2018 rally where Robinson supporters attacked UK police near Parliament Image
in something of a prelude to the attack by right wing Trump supporters against the Capitol on Jan. 6, in which over 400 people have now been arrested on federal charges.
more on Shillman, who reportedly funds Daniel Pipes’ Middle East forum and other assorted anti Islam outfits, and according to the NYT, funded a June 2018 Tommy Robinson rally that led to attacks on the British police outside parliament reuters.com/article/us-usa…

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22 Apr
State spox Price on apparent Russian announcement local staff will no longer be allowed to work at US embassy Moscow: Not received formal notification, heard announcement, consider it quite unfortunate. local staff important to bilateral mission. Even as have profound disagreemts
on Russian DM Shoigu announcement mil exercise over, troops should go back to bases: We have heard the announcement. To the best of our knowledge, it remains an announcement...will be looking for follow through
repeatedly declines to say if US had any advance awareness that announcement was coming. Guess take from way he treated the question that if they had the awareness, it was not because the Russians told them such an announcement was coming.
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22 Apr
US officials have quite consistently now several times used the language about some of the Iran sanctions imposed by Trump admin with deliberate and avowed purpose of hindering next admin diplomacy. wondering, is there possibly a legal related reason for doing so?
Do you know if ‘poison pill’ sanctions are more vulnerable to some sort of legal challenge or being overturned in some other sort of legal or policy review? @brianoftoole Am struck by US officials describing Trump admin sanx wall effort in what sounds like almost a lawyered way
🧵Update: turns out, there is. @brianoftoole says when you are delisting entitities, can do a couple ways. one is say they are no longer engaged in behavior which put them on the list. other way is a policy delisting. but in latter, supposed to treat similarly situated entitites
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21 Apr
thread: Snr State Dept official, in background call on Vienna Iran talks: Made some progress, but not in a situation greatly different from after 1st round. Has been more clarification--But clarification does not necessarily mean consensus.
We have better idea of what US would need to do to come into full compliance. Iran has better idea of what it needs to do.
But there are still disagreements, and some important ones.
Distance that remains to be traveled is greater than distance traveled so far. We are not near the conclusion. We made some progress. Talks businesslike, productive, still many differences that would need to be overcome
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20 Apr
what do you think, @ShalomLipner Image
and who wants to get on the train without this Image
the drink, not the Iran nuclear site Image
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20 Apr
State spox Ned Price on Vienna talks: Talks have been businesslike, they have been positive, There has been some progress, but remains long road ahead of us.
We welcome…the joint commission establishment of a third working group
Price: We have together stated common objective of returning to mutual compliance with the jcpoa. We have been engaged constructively in a diplo process to achieve that goal...
Exploring concrete approaches both iran and the us would need to take to return to mutual compliance
Price describes Vienna talks as "thorough," thoughtful," "not without difficulty," in part b/c indirect.
We have shared ideas among the delegations present.
There have been no breakthroughs. Always said this process even if going quite well will not be easy or quick. Remains true
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20 Apr
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