By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A confidential report notes “fluctuations of the enrichment levels,” though does not explain the cause.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The guided-missile cruiser “USS Monterey” found assault weapons, machine guns and sniper rifles on the stateless ship in the Arabian Sea.
The IAF reportedly carried out strikes in the coastal area of Latakia.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A German state report says “proliferation-relevant states are making efforts to expand on their conventional arsenal of weapons through the production or constant modernization of weapons of mass destruction.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It has been backdated to start in 2019 and will run to September 2023.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The backlash over allegations that former Secretary of State John Kerry may have provided Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif inside information on Israeli military operations has sparked calls for an investigation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli sites should be prepared for cyber-attacks ahead of Iran’s Quds Day and the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan, Israel’s National Cyber Directorate warned.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Maximum Pressure Act would require Senate approval for any new deal between the United States and Iran.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
“We cut off one hand by activating the IR-6 centrifuges, and we cut off the other by [increasing uranium enrichment] to 60 percent,” says Hassan Rouhani.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
European powers delay a decision to pass a resolution criticizing Iran over the matter, to avoid negatively impacting parallel talks about reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The offers they provide are usually arrogant and humiliating, [and] not worth looking at,” said Khamenei.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The “main part” of the Islamic Republic’s uranium-enrichment capability was eliminated in the explosion, says the head of the Iranian parliament’s Research Center.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Iranian Atomic Energy Agency head Ali-Akbar Salehi: “We have activated a full IR-6 centrifuge chain”; “We have an enrichment capacity of 16,500 SWU—more than before the JCPOA.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Jerusalem, the two men discussed ways to deepen the defense relationship in the face of threats in the Middle East.
Iran has used this method before to lure former Iranian dissidents living abroad.
Intelligence sources estimate that Iran will not respond in a direct confrontation with Israel and will choose to harm Israeli missions abroad or through an extensive cyberattack or a limited missile attack.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Gantz stated that he emphasized to Austin that Israel sees the US “as a full partner on all operational fronts – the first of which is Iran.”
Iran believed that its attempt to deny the military role of the “Saviz” would protect it from attack, but the deniability ended up making it easier for those who struck it, says a former defense official.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Islamic Republic has produced 55 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent, and can reach 120 kilograms within eight months, says Iranian nuclear official.
Biden has threatened to "recalibrate" the US relationship with the Saudis, and is making good on that promise.
With Israelis vaccinated and travelling again, they will become more easily accessible targets for Iran.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iranian communications intercepted in January discussed attacking the base, as well the U.S. Army’s vice chief staff, as revenge for the killing of Quds Force Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Israel’s alleged ongoing disruptions of Iranian oil-smuggling to Syria, which enabled a terror financing channel to Hezbollah, and Tehran’s resulting retaliation may have set off alarm bells in the Biden administration ahead of new nuclear talks.
By Israel Hayom
The Islamic Republic as historically miscalculating its strategic positions, whether in the Iran-Iraq war or the development of its nuclear program—a pattern of strategic miscalculations that have led to sanctions, isolation and economic devastation
By Israel Hayom
Several members of the country’s military have been arrested for smuggling uranium, says Venezuelan politician and would-be leader Juan Guaidó.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Britain, France and Germany withdraw their support for a resolution criticizing Tehran for failing to explain the presence of uranium particles at undeclared locations.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
PM Netanyahu said very clearly that Iran was behind the attack on the ship.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In early January, Iran seized a South Korean tanker and its crew in the Persian Gulf.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Iran announced that it would limit international access to its nuclear sites.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"2,500 years ago another Persian tyrant tried to destroy the Jewish people and just as he failed then – you will fail today.”
Compensation could take the form of reparations, investment or “measures to prevent a repeat of what Trump did,” says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rafael Grossi tweets that the purpose of his trip is “to find a mutually agreeable solution, compatible with Iranian law, so that the IAEA can continue essential verification activities in Iran.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move is a reversal of U.S. relations under the Trump administration, which had maintained steady contact with Mohammed bin Salman, also known as “MBS.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Saeid Mollaei, who was forced to throw a match at the 2019 World Judo Championships to avoid a bout with Israeli counterpart Sagi Muki, is now competing on behalf of Mongolia.
Tehran has set its sights on the UAE due to its rapprochement with Israel and efforts to hinder Iran’s nuclear program, says The New York Times.
By Israel Hayom
The man responsible for the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist was fired by Iranian intelligence shortly before the hit took place, says Mahmoud Alavi
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
SOHR said the Israeli attack went on for a half-hour.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A military source told SANA that the attack came from the direction of the Golan, “targeting some targets in the vicinity of Damascus.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz spoke on Wednesday with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu regarding “security challenges in the Middle East, and Syria in particular.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF Intelligence Division presented its annual intelligence forecast for the region in 2021.
By Israel Hayom
“The development of the Iranian nuclear program and the ballistic missile project endanger the entire region,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud tells an emergency meeting of the Arab League.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Ultimately, the IRGC is more dangerous than any of the groups listed, and constitutes a real and present danger to Iranian dissidents, the Jewish community and Canadians in general,” said B’nai Brith Canada.
By Israel Hayom
“One covert attack in the middle of the night, and everything would be over the next morning,” says the deputy police chief of Dubai.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Assadolah Assad, who served in the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was convicted of transporting explosives for an attack on leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran at the group’s annual rally near Paris in 2018.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A U.K.-based war monitor group reports that the alleged Israeli strikes targeted “several military positions,” and militias associated with Hezbollah and the Syrian Resistance for the Liberation of the Golan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iranian nuclear program “a challenge we have to tackle immediately,” says U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price.
The Democrats were opposed to the deal from the beginning.
Reports indicate that Syrian anti-aircraft fire hit a civilian home.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel let Biden know there's more than just the nuclear front to deal with with Iran, and let Iran know that Israel won't accept Iran in Syria, even during the Biden administration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Masih Alinejad posted: “It’s time to remove the man who has banned 83 million Iranians from Twitter, bans US & European coronavirus vaccines and ordered the crackdown that killed 1,500 protesters.”
Some military officials have estimated that Iran will take advantage of the coming weeks before Joe Biden enters office to retaliate against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The flight by two Air Force B-52s was a response to intelligence that Iran may be planning to carry out attacks against U.S. allies in the region in the coming days, says senior U.S. military officer.
The average Gazan is not happy that Hamas is cozy with Iran, and blames Iran for the murder of Arabs throughout the Middle East.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East was an “important element in regional stability, which must be preserved.”
By Israel Hayom
Tehran is also in talks to sell several domestically produced weapons systems, Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami says.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Revenge will be taken on those who ordered it and the murderers."
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) established training centers for children starting from age 12, with the objective of deploying them on the battlefield.
Cairo is concerned that a Biden administration will be hostile, and will conclude a new nuclear deal with Iran that would undermine regional stability, say Egyptian officials.
By Israel Hayom
Brig. Gen. Abdolrasool Ostovar served with Iranian general Qassem Soleimani,
A little foreshadowing by PM Netanyahu on April 30, 2018.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A senior Israeli official is quoted as saying that Fakhrizadeh was one of Israel’s worst enemies, and without him, Iran would not have achieved what it did in the realm of long-range ballistic missiles.
Fakhrizadeh headed the “weaponization” group of Iran’s nuclear program, attended an underground nuclear-weapons test in North Korea in 2013 and was earmarked for the stage following a sufficient accumulation of uranium.
Iran has been using social media in Hebrew to rile up Israelis against PM Netanyahu.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has remained silent on the reports.
Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that “Trump is unwittingly undermining American deterrence in the Middle East.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The information Iran has provided “doesn’t add up” from a technical standpoint, says U.N. nuclear watchdog Director-General Rafael Grossi.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The sanctions were announced on the one-year anniversary of street protests by Iranians.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iran has begun feeding uranium hexafluoride into the cascade of 174 IR-2m centrifuges recently installed at Natanz, says nuclear watchdog agency.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Defense Department, State Department employees, the United Nations and humanitarian groups are reportedly against such a move.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move underground, which can protect the plant from aerial attacks
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi says he doesn’t think Tehran has a “significant quantity” of uranium “to indicate amounts which could be theoretically used for the development of a nuclear weapon.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Russia has a presence in Syria and has significant sway on the development in the country. The IDF and the Russian army maintain a line of communications through which they coordinate their actions to prevent a clash between the two militaries.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli leaders have repeatedly declared that they will not tolerate an Iranian threat on its northern border with Syria .
The expiration of the embargo comes after United States enacted U.N. snapback sanctions on the regime in August, a move that included extending it indefinitely.
The Trump administration effectively cut off the regime from the worldwide fiscal system with an exception for humanitarian purposes.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This judgment is the first step in the pursuit of justice for Robert Levinson, an American patriot, who was kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable suffering for more than 13 years,” said his family.
The population of Bahrain is 60 percent Shiite while the royal house is Sunni.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned six companies based in Iran, the United Arab Emirates and China for allegedly supporting Triliance’s continued involvement in the sale of Iranian petrochemical products.
By Avi Abelow
Navid Afkari is a wrestling champion. Executing him makes the Iranian Islamic regime look horrible, but they don’t care.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new hall would replace a production hall that experienced a fire in July in what Iran has alleged was sabotage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Syrian air defenses were deployed in response to the attack.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Iran has more than three tons of uranium enriched to four percent, and at least 1,000 tons of yellowcake.
The sanctions come despite the historic U.S.-brokered agreement last week to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We’ll be doing a snapback. You’ll be watching it next week,” says the U.S. president.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The administration hopes the seizures will deter shipping companies from dealing with Iran and Venezuela.
Iran's military forces are spread out over 125 locations in Syria, including on the border with Israel.
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, said Elliott Abrams “will have little time to settle in,” citing the upcoming deadline to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.
By Nave Dromi
U.S. Senator John McCain once said: "When you're not winning, you're losing."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Iranian judiciary said that the man gave the U.S. and Israel information on the movements of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, killed in January by an American drone.
A new report is calling on the U.S. to designate three Iranian organizations as terror groups.
By Israel Hayom
Maj. Gen. Esmail Ghaani warns “major events” are about to befall Israel and the U.S., hints USS Bonhomme Richard fire was Iranian retaliation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iran's judiciary said that Asgari sold data related to Iran’s missile program to the U.S. intelligence agency.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia, China, Iran and Turkey are “key players in espionage and influence directed against Germany,” according to a report.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Iranians are in dilemma: they do not want to escalate the situation before the US election in November, but they do want to retaliate,.
The Hemmat Missile factory is part of Iran's precision missile program, with annexes in Syria and Lebanon. for Hezbollah's missile program.
Rare footage of a Halitza ceremony in Tehran's Jewish community.
Iran's cybersecurity chief threatened Israel, if they discover that Israel was behind the explosion.
With all the rioting and protests going on today, we may be seeing even MORE violence, -but not in America. Take a look across the pond, to northern Africa and the Middle East. Libya, Turkey and Egypt are all embroiled in a power struggle that looks like there could be war. Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), and Turkish imperialism and interests, claim that Egypt's military threat is a 'declaration of war'. Egypt sees a threat to it's own border with Libya and the Turks, and have threatened a 'direct' intervention in Libya if necessary in order to protect its porous border. What will be, and how will it affect us all?
The "Deal of the Century" is Oslo 2.0
On Today’s Leap of Faith Penina speaks with Chaya Parkoff who shares her journey from a secular Jewish upbringing to a life devoted to Torah. Chaya is a licensed clinical social worker, life coach, motivational speaker, Jewish educator, marathon runner and most recently a kidney donor. Another inspiring episode you don’t want to miss!