Malaysia will extradite Iranian suspected of involvement in attempted bombing in Thailand; Report reveals that Mossad chief visited New Delhi days before the attack on the Israeli diplomatic vehicle and lauded India as a safe destination for Israelis; Israel's envoy to the UN has lodged a complaint, blaming Iran and Hizbollah for the week-long terror campaign.
Obama plays the delaying game while giving a false impression to his gullible supporters – especially liberal American Jews – that he is supposedly doing everything to stop Iran short of military attack.
The two apparently coordinated attacks on Monday against Israeli diplomatic personnel present Israel with a significant challenge of how to respond, aside from an obvious concern for the safety of its citizens abroad.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Israeli leaders blamed Iran for two assassination attempts late Sunday and early Monday – in Tbilisi, Georgia, and in New Delhi, India. The bomb in Tbilisi was disabled before it could be activated, and the attack in India wounded the wife of an Israeli diplomat and her driver.
By Rafi Harkham
The intensified cooperation between Iran and Syria reflects their understanding that Iran's nuclear ambitions and the unrest in Syria are linked: Western nations' arming of the Syrian Opposition would cause a serious rift with Russia and China at a time when their consensus is crucial to constraining Iran's nuclear program.
According to Reuters, based on European and U.S. officials and private experts, Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country's nuclear machinery. In 2009, the malicious code penetrated equipment controlling centrifuges Iran is using to enrich uranium, dealing a significant setback to Iran's nuclear weapons work. […]
Israeli diplomat's wife in serious but stable condition after Monday's bomb attack on her car in New Delhi, while an Iranian man blew off his legs Tuesday in a failed bomb attack in Bangkok.
Are prayers are with her for a full and complete recovery.
Newsweek magazine quoted Pentagon officials this week saying the US will “look the other way” regarding an impending Israeli airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities and the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. This is despite Washington’s interest in preventing warfare in the region, according to the report. The article alleges that Mossad Director Tamir Pardo's was […]
By Tibbi Singer
The Givataim-based mystic, known for his accurate political and economic predictions, says Israel will not participate in the attack.
US officials say the string of assassinations of nuclear scientists in Iran is the work of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran and that the group receives funding, training and arms from the Mossad.
Iran is one of Taiwan's top sources of crude oil, at 6.8% of total imports.
Many of us continue to be apprehensive about what the Middle East policy of a reelected President Obama would look like. Though Mr. Obama continues to insist that U.S. support for the security of Israel is "unshakable," his turnaround on pressing Israel on the 1967 lines and settlement growth, while welcome, was unnerving. Not only did it occur at the outset of the presidential campaign season, it was also uncommonly abrupt.
Report in Palestinian daily Al Quds quoted a source as saying "without a doubt, Haniyeh's visit to Tehran will have consequences."
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – When America’s top intelligence official said that Iran’s regime is considering attacks on U.S. soil, he cited a single incident and qualified the assessment with a “probably.”
Remarks come at the launch of political reform movement "Yesh Sicui"
By Rafi Harkham
Russia and China, constrained by outdated Cold War outlooks, continue to frustrate attempts to end the conflict in Syria.
Lieberman's visit comes as the rhetoric between the West and Iran is heating up, and a day after the conclusion of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.
Rasmussen Reports also found that 83% believe it is at least somewhat likely Iran will develop a nuclear weapon in the near future.
Move comes in response to Iranian attempts to "conceal transactions of sanctioned parties."
Comments were made last month prior to Eshel's appointment, and so offer a candid look into the new IAF chief's strategic thinking.
Efraim Halevy served as Mossad's chief from 1998-2002.
Obama describes the cooperation between the US and Israel as unprecedented
News of an increased threat on Jewish and Israeli targets across North America comes at the same time as predictions of an imminent and detailed Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities arise.
The website was reportedly blocked ahead of Khamenei's sermon for Friday Prayers last Friday.
Demonstration at US mission to the UN and Israeli consulate led by a banner reading "No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations."
A team of UN Nuclear experts will return to Iran for the talks on February 21.
Former IDF Chief of Staff makes comments at Herzliya Conference.
Ali Akbar Salehi said that Iran is prepared to upgrade its diplomatic relations with Egypt to the Ambassadorial level.
Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi: "When Khamenei gives the order to produce the first nuclear weapon – it will be done, we believe, within one year."
Senator Diane Feinstein and CIA Director David Petraeus both mentioned that they met with Tamir Pardo earlier in the week.
A discussion about the cost of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities that reflects skepticism and acquiesces to a nuclear-armed Iran ignores precedents, plays into Iran's hands, and threatens Israel's existence.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Israel, the United States and Iran have all gone deep into mixed-signals territory.
Ban is on a two day trip to Israel, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza.
Comments come in joint press conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the IAEA, said his team "had a good trip."
Let me please start with Fanny Englard, an active survivor of the Holocaust and a friend of mine. She grew up in Germany/Cologne and lives now south of Tel Aviv. Fanny wrote in a letter: “As a twenty-year-old, on 8 May 1945 I was liberated from hell and tried to find my family, but without […]
Ismail Haniyeh is set to visit Iran, Qatar, and Kuwait.
Three-day visit by IAEA nuclear experts was scheduled to end on January 31.
Israeli national elections are scheduled for November 2013.
Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported yesterday that Turkey pledged to provide Hamas aid money in lieu of Iran.
US Defense Secretary makes statements on '60 Minutes'.
IAEA is expected to visit the underground enrichment site near the city of Qom, in which Iran recently said it had begun uranium enrichment work.
Haniyeh and Erdogan reportedly discuss finances in Haniyeh's first official visit to Turkey.
General Martin Dempsey acknowledged that US and Israel see the threat differently.
Roger Cohen’s New York Times column was the latest in the Obama camp’s efforts to pressure Binyamin Netanyahu to risk Israel’s being nuked by a nuclear Iran rather than cause any ripples in President Obama campaign for re-election to a second term.
Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education taken offline.
Gabi Ashkenazi says that Israel must 'keep a viable military option on the table.'
Given its context, the recent declaration of the mufti of Jerusalem that it is Muslim destiny to destroy the Jewish people cannot be dismissed as the primitive rant of a crackpot cleric.
By Barry Rubin
On the surface, of course, there is apparent evidence to assume Israel will attack Iran. Yet any serious consideration of this scenario says this isn’t going to happen.
Iranian President: "Why should we run away from the negotiations?"
'Hannibal' claims to have access to a trove of confidential Iranian information.
EU outlawing of Iranian oil imports is already hurting the Iranian economy. But will it have an effect beyond that?
By Sara Lehmann
New York’s 9th Congressional District will forever be remembered not only for the departure of disgraced veteran Congressman Anthony Weiner but also for who replaced him. Bob Turner’s victory marked the first Republican win in that district since 1923, and his September 2011 election stunned the Democratic Party.
By Baruch Widen
Vice PM Ya’alon to Likud Anglos: Israel cannot overcome both internal challenges and external threats with an obsolete paradigm he identifies as “Westernism”.
Andrew Adler proposed 'taking out' president deemed unfriendly to Israel.
USS Abraham Lincoln passed through the Strait without incident Sunday.
"Strong and quick" pressure on Iran is still necessary, Israeli PM insists.
Total ban on oil imports to begin July 1, 2012.
According to sources, the ban would halt all oil imports by July 1, 2012.
By Sam Ser
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz are reported to be locked in a disagreement over the appointment of the next air force commander, with some suggesting a possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities as the source of the divide.
The Sunday Times also reported that the US postponed the joint US-Israel military drill
Statements come as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wraps up trip to Gulf region.
PM speaks on the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis decided on their "Final Solution," for the Jewish people.
This week marks the seventieth anniversary of one of the most chilling events of the modern era.
The following article by Professor Beres and Colonel (Israel Defense Forces) Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto was originally published in the April 18, 2007 issue of The Jewish Press. Its warnings and predictions concerning a nuclear Iran have been proven unassailable.
U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran ineffective; EU to encourage Arab building in Area C; Al Jazeera accused of promoting anti-Americanism; Israelis rescued from the Italian Costa Concordia cruise liner.
Offer included four ministries in the Syrian government in exchange for supporting Assad.
Russia says it will veto any UN authorization of military force against Assad regime.
Turkey's Foreign Minister made the offer in a joint news conference with Iranian counterpart.
Yukiya Amano makes comments in interview with Financial Times Deutschland.
By Sam Ser
European foreign ministers declared their countries’ intent to embargo oil from the Islamic Republic, beginning as early as July, and freeze the assets of Iran’s central bank
UK PM Cameron discloses the information to the House of Commons.
Yishai and Malkah share stories of liberation in a week when the Torah portion (Vaeira) describes the beginnings of the Jewish people’s fight against Egyptian slavery three and a half thousand years ago.
Brinksmanship between Iran and the West continues.
PM repeats invitation to Abbas to revive direct talks.
A celebration of the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of over 20,000 Hungarian Jews in the final days of World War II, also marks the renewal of investigations into the events surrounding his death. In attendance - the Iranian Ambassador to Hungary
Iranian lawmaker says threats were accompanied by offer for dialogue.
Bolton: "The world's central banker of terrorism will very soon become a nuclear weapons state."
Turkish newspaper cites report that implicates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Barak insists Israel coordinating with US on Iran.
Iran's OPEC governor: Embargo would push Europe "into a deeper crisis."
The asian nation receives approximately 10% of its oil from Iran.
Senior military official: Hamas, Hizbollah would be "under the Iranian nuclear umbrella."
Parliament Speaker Ali Larjani provides no additional details.
The much-publicized joint defense drill planned between Israel and the United States has been postponed in the wake of quickly escalating tensions between the two countries and Iran.
US government conveyed that closing the Strait would constitute a "red line."
"Austere Challenge" was to be largest-ever anti-missile joint military exercise between Israel and United States.
Israel’s intensifying readiness to launch a military strike against Iran has met with a negative US response, with top government officials being dispatched to the Jewish state in the attempt to thwart an attack.
Yaalon contrasted Obama's stance with that of France and Britain.
Obama fears Israel will strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
Comments come in wake of Saudi Arabia's assurance to boost oil output.
NATO ambassador: military action against Iran "direct threat" to Russia.
In a letter handed to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, the Iranian foreign ministry relayed to the United States that it believes the CIA was behind the recent assassination of another Iranian nuclear scientist.
Obama reiterates "unshakable commitment to Israel’s security".
Peres: "Fashionable" for Iran to blame US, Israel.
By JTA
The Obama administration added three companies to those sanctioned for dealing with Iran's energy sector, for the first time targeting a major Chinese Iran trader.
Iran calls the assassination a "terror attack" in letter to UN Secretary General.
India to work with Iran to circumvent US financial measures.
Pentagon says deployment of USS Carl Vinson is "routine".