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By Erez Linn
International sanctions have caused vulnerabilities in the Islamic Republic's supply chains, according to Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tehran has 121.6 kilograms (268 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60%, according to a new IAEA report.
The Prime Minister’s Office clarified that Israel has not agreed to any of its neighboring countries having a nuclear program, without distinguishing between military and civilian programs.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 300-megawatt plant, known as Karoon, will reportedly take eight years to build at a cost of some $2 billion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Separately, two IAF F-35s escorted two U.S. B-52 bombers on a flight.
It is unclear exactly what technology he was talking about.
Tension between Saudi Arabia and the US have been rising under the Biden administration.
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 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)
Iran has begun feeding uranium hexafluoride into the cascade of 174 IR-2m centrifuges recently installed at Natanz, says nuclear watchdog agency.
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition by Mordechai Vanunu, who was convicted of revealing Israel’s nuclear secrets, to remove the injunction prohibiting him from leaving the country and contacting foreign citizens.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Iran was lying to the world and disguising its ballistic missile development project as a failed satellite program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged. Speaking at the IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv on Tuesday during a ceremony for the IDF’s new Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, Netanyahu said that Israel “has to poke holes […]
Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.
Working with North Korean refugees and trying to prevent war.
North Korea is bad news, even for Israel.
By JNi.Media
Salehi quoted historian Arnold Toynbee, who predicted that if the Islamic people were freed from their shackles, the world would see the emergence of a civilization which would challenge the West.
By JNi.Media
World powers should remain cognizant the Islamic Republic's ability to replace old centrifuges with new ones, in order to potentially get its nuclear program going again 'should the 2015 nuclear agreement be violated.'
This year, the UN was bookmarked by startling resolutions orchestrated by Pres. Obama: the Iran Nuclear Deal in Jan., and in Dec. Jewish presence declared illegal in areas integral to Jewish history.
By JNi.Media
Peres is widely regarded as the founder of Israel's nuclear research.
By JNi.Media
The Trump campaigned quickly took advantage of the report, with a statement by retired Army General Michael Flynn, who said, "It’s now clear President Obama gave away the store to secure a weak agreement that is full of loopholes."
By JNi.Media
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned "the enemy should understand that if it strikes, it will definitely be stricken by a yet stronger blow, with active defense turning to active assault as well.”
By Jeff Dunetz
The document, allowing Iran to upgrade its centrifuges and increase its enriching capacity, long before the deal officially expires is the only part of last year’s Iran deal between not made public
By Sean Savage
Today, Israel’s leadership appears to be less concerned with Iran’s nuclear ambitions than Iran’s regional ambitions, specifically its involvement in Syria and support for its terror proxies.
By JNi.Media
Secretary of State John Kerry said this week that “Nobody pretends that some of the challenges we have with Iran have somehow been wiped away."
By JNi.Media
As of March 2015, 164 states have ratified the CTBT and another 19 states have signed but not ratified it.
It’s an objective, Samuels said, that Rhodes – a determined critic of the Iraq war – views with a sense of “urgency.”
Iran's U.N. ambassador, a senior military officer and the regime's media masterfully changed recent comments from Moshe Ya'alon to rouse the rabble.
By Rachel Levy
US media suddenly backs off on story about a top secret parallel nuclear development site. Why?
By J. E. Dyer
Remnants of Assad’s nuclear program are alive and well, under the control of Hezbollah and Iran
FM Liberman is set to meet with US Secy of State Kerry on PA talks Thursday in Paris.
The interim deal between the major world powers and Iran left the Islamic Republic “six weeks from a nuclear weapon,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv Tuesday night. He has previously said that the goal of should not just be to stop Iran from […]
Still facing an effectively unhindered nuclear threat from Iran, Israel will soon need to choose between two strategic options.
Abbas and Peres' mastery of manipulation forced them to profusely mourn the death of Mandela and at the same time robbed them of being able to do a bit of soul searching.
By JTA
Harvard Law School professor and vocal Israel supporter Alan Dershowitz said the deal reached in Geneva under which Iran promised to stop uranium enrichment beyond 5 percent in exchange for $7 billion in sanctions relief “could turn out to be a cataclysmic error of gigantic proportions.” “It could also turn out to be successful, to […]
Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev pointed out that Iran already has missiles that can reach Israel, that Iran is building ICBMs to reach North America and Western Europe.
By Adam Levick
You don’t even need to believe that antisemitism is at play to be contemptuous of the extraordinary myopia displayed in the Guardian report.
By Barry Rubin
"Israel has become an affluent and developed country that can afford to pay for its own defense."
By Barry Rubin
Iran is a rational actor in terms of its own objectives.
By Barry Rubin
Not much progress—which is really moving backwards—will be made on the Israeli-Palestinian front.
Bibi dared to mention the NY Times' own shoddy record of believing dictators on the threshold of nuclear weapons capability.
Feiglin claims the legitimacy for an Israeli preemptive strike has dissipated.
By JTA
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will discuss stopping Iran’s nuclear program during a meeting with President Barack Obama later this month during the United Nations General Assembly, he told his Cabinet on Tuesday. Until Iran actually stops its nuclear program “the pressure on Iran must be increased and not relaxed, and certainly not eased,” Netanyahu said. […]
By JoeSettler
Refocusing on domestic issues, maybe Obama will leave Israel alone.
Nuclear ambiguity? Israel has released rare photos of the construction of the Dimona nuclear plant. The photos do not endanger security, but their publication indicates Israel may become less secretive.
By J. E. Dyer
The reactor is to be brought online in 2014, according to Iran’s projection.
Interim Egyptian President Adly Monsour backtracked on Saturday night, and said that ElBaradei was not appointed as Prime Minister of Egypt, following the military coup that deposed the democratically elected Muslim Bortherhood leader Mohammed Morsi. The appointment was opposed by the strict Islamic party Salafi al-Nour, and the newly appointed Eyptian president apparently decided to not […]
Iran’s state-controlled media announced it will build a new nu clear “research center” for the production of medical isotopes. The new reactor is to be built approximately 420 miles south of Tehran and will supplement Iran’s Bushehr reactor.
Ahmadinejad almost never misses a chance at wiping the West’s face in the dirt. While diplomats try to convince Iran to give up its unstated goal of a nuclear bomb, it launches two new uranium plants.
Steadily, Israel is strengthening its plans for ballistic missile defense, most visibly on the Arrow system and also on Iron Dome, a lower-altitude interceptor that is designed to guard against shorter-range rocket attacks from Lebanon and Gaza.
Israel's final decision concerning what to do about a nuclear Iran will depend on answers to certain core psychological questions. Is the Iranian adversary rational, valuing national survival more highly than any other preference, or combination of preferences? Or, on even a single occasion, is this enemy more apt to prove itself irrational, thereby choosing to value certain preferences more highly than the country's indispensable physical security?
This alarming news came after the publication of the latest IAEA report that was unusually outspoken about the development of a nuclear weapon by Iran.
When Bibi Netanyahu addressed the U.N. and challenged the world to take a tough stance on Iran, his call to draw a red line met with comments on his artistic ability and mixed reviews on his political insights. One can argue that the Europeans take the threat of Iran seriously. The European Union imposed its toughest sanctions on […]
By Barry Rubin
If 2011 was the year of the Arab Spring, 2013 looks to be the year of the Arab Fall.
By Barry Rubin
The most important foreign policy effort President Barack Obama will be making over the next year is negotiating with Iran. The terms of the U.S. offer are clear: if Iran agrees not to build nuclear weapons, it will be allowed to enrich a certain amount of uranium, supposedly for purposes of generating nuclear energy (which Iran doesn’t need) and other benefits, supposedly under strict safeguards.
AP reports that Western diplomats announced that the long planned meeting of the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) countries has been cancelled because Israel, not a signatory on the NPT treaty, has declined to show up. The Arab states and Iran (yes, that's right), all signatories of the NPT want Israel to sign the NPT and […]
By Barry Rubin
Over and over again I’ve written about what President Barack Obama should do. Now the voters have given him a whole new chance. He could take it and change his policy. I don't believe he will do that but let me lay out both what he's been wrong and what he should do, just in case Obama is seeking a different approach.
A massive war game simulation by the Institute for National Security Studies of the IDF’s engagement after a strike on Iran recently took place, illustrating Israel’s increasing preparedness for putting a military end to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
Nuclear weapons and nuclear war. This is not a new subject for my column in The Jewish Press. What is new is the urgent need to confront, head on, an expanding international movement to eviscerate Israel's nuclear posture – and at precisely the precarious moment when this critical posture should actually be made more visible, and hence, more compelling.
There’s no question Iran’s corrupt and abusive regime is feeling the bite of tough new sanctions. These sanctions are our only hope short of armed conflict of stopping Iran – the world’s number one sponsor of terror and single greatest threat to the state of Israel – from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Stop the Bomb, a European coalition which works towards the enactment of economic and political sanctions against the Iranian Islamist regime, has criticized the lack of action by the Austrian authorities.
In my last blog, I called attention to a report that the US and Iran had made a secret agreement to end sanctions in return for a halt or pause in uranium enrichment. I suggested that this could be an “October Surprise:” the Obama campaign could claim that the President’s policy of partial sanctions and “tough diplomacy” had forced the Iranians to back down from their march toward nuclear weapons.
By Barry Rubin
Are supposed negotiations with Iran the “October Surprise” intended to win the election for President Barack Obama, an Iranian trick for buying time, or both? The answer is both. It’s an incredibly transparent ploy though with the cooperation of the mass media such a gimmick might well have some effect.
The United States and Israel will conduct their largest-ever joint missile defense exercise this month, making a display of solidarity as the international rift over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program grows.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines last month with this question: What are the U.S. red lines when it comes to Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program?
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently warned that, “The results of an American or Israeli military strike on Iran could, in my view, prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world.” During Thursday's Vice Presidential debate the statement was read to Vice President Joe Biden and Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan at the start of segment on Iran. What exactly Gates meant by “catastrophic” I’m not sure (Muslim/Middle East resentment towards the U.S.? Lack of access to oil? Increase in global terrorism?), but during the debate, both Biden and debate moderator Martha Raddatz seemed to argue that it meant going to war with Iran.
By JTA
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan clashed over Iran’s nuclear program during their televised debate. Ryan assailed President Obama’s approach to the issue in Thursday night's vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. The Wisconsin congressman accused administration officials of sending "mixed signals" to Iran about U.S. […]
With the dramatic stroke of a red marker, the “Bibi Bomb” became an instant sensation. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before world leaders on September 27 at the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly, he faced a colossal challenge. Despite the vocal skepticism of those who feel the situation is not as dire as he maintains, Netanyahu has been steadfast in his insistence that Iran is well on its way to stockpiling enough enriched uranium to construct a nuclear bomb.
By dvora
Three thousand years ago, King David reigned over the Jewish state in our eternal capital, Jerusalem. I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no roots in our region and that it will soon disappear.
By Elad Benari and Annie Lubin
Iran will not back down on its nuclear program despite the problems caused by Western sanctions, including a dramatic slide in the value of its currency, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
Iran’s currency fell a whopping 16 percent on Monday to a record low of 34,500 rials to the dollar, plummeting from 29,500 rials on Sunday.
Transcript of Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech in the UN on Thursday, September 27, 2012.
"I ask, given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian aggression with nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said to the assembly.
As Israel comes closer to a confrontation with Iran, we should note that Iran’s primary strategy is unlikely to be direct conflict with Israel. Iran’s air and missile forces, despite their bragging, are not sufficiently well-developed to support such a conflict. Instead, I expect that they will depend on their main proxy, Hizballah.
"Citizens of Israel, Tonight, I am leaving for New York to represent the State of Israel at the United Nations. On the issue of Iran, we are all in agreement on the goal of preventing Iran from achieving nuclear weapons. On the day when we pray to be inscribed in the Book of Life, a […]
By JTA
President Obama told the United Nations that "containment" of a nuclear Iran is not an option and it would pose an existential threat to Israel. "Make no mistake, a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained," Obama said in his address to the General Assembly in New York on Tuesday morning. "It […]
I have to believe that the prime minister has red lines. He knows when they will be crossed. He is not going to wait a moment beyond that to destroy Iranian nuclear reactors. He knows that if he doesn’t act decisively at the right moment - the consequences of a nuclear attack against Israel will rival those of the Holocaust. Only this Holocaust will be nuclear.
In an interview on “60 Minutes” this past Sunday, President Obama was asked about his very public spat with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over the latter’s call for the U.S. to set “red lines” for Iran’s nuclear advance which, if crossed, would trigger an American military response coordinated with Israel and perhaps others.
By JTA
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly endorsed language that sets a red line for Iran "nuclear capability."
Ironically, the less credible the threat of military force is, the more likely it is that military force will eventually have to be used.
Iran's Vice President Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, who heads the Iranian delegation taking part in the 56th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, told the newspaper Al-Hayat: "We sometimes gave false information to protect our nuclear sites and our interests. This inevitably misled other intelligence agencies." It appears that Iran has been regularly […]
Iran's nuclear chief said the country's nuclear program had been attacked twice by elements related to the U.S. military.
Unwilling to issue an ultimatum, the U.S.will go no further than to repeat that “we will not allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon,” but it will not say — publicly or to Israel — how far it will allow Iran to go.
JERUSALEM – Barring any scheduling changes during the forthcoming UN General Assembly gathering, President Obama will not formally meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York. This follows Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s rejection of Netanyahu’s demand that the U.S. and its Western allies deliver a red line ultimatum to the Iranian regime regarding their escalating nuclear weapons program.
By JTA
Iran has moved further along in its ability to build nuclear weapons, according to some diplomats.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave an interview stating that the U.S. would not be setting any deadlines for Iran.
By JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu erupted in anger at the U.S. ambassador to Israel over what Israel's government regards as unclear signals from the United States on Iran. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, described an encounter he wtinessed last month when he was visiting Israel for […]
JERUSALEM – White House and Israeli government officials criticized Israel’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper for publishing what they described as two patently false stories during the past week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled the second meeting of the security cabinet due to leaks from the meeting held yesterday about discussions onIran’s nuclear program.
Reason #1. Iran's regime is outspokenly dedicated to the goal of destroying the State of Israel. Iranian political, religious, and military leaders have expressed their desire to annihilate Israel at every opportunity they have received....
In March, President Obama said "when the chips are down, I have Israel’s back," but U.S. actions since have shown otherwise.
By JTA
Iran has doubled its production of uranium enrichment centrifuges at one of its underground facilities. The expansion, reported by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, comes amidst mounting pressure from the West and increased talk of a preemptive attack by Israel, which believes Iran has a clandestine nuclear weapons program. The number of enrichment centrifuges […]
Alan Dershowitz writes that President Obama must make it clear that he has rejected the view of those who are prepared to contain a nuclear Iran and that he will indeed employ military action if that is the only option other than a nuclear Iran.
On January 30, 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War, tens of thousands of Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched a coordinated attack on 100 cities across South Vietnam against the forces of the United States, South Vietnam and their allies.
By Tibbi Singer
“Rav Ovadia Yosef is not what the newspapers make him out to be. Rav Ovadia uses his influence on the Israeli public and also on the Israeli government,” Rabbi Fruman told the Palestinian officials. Abbas addressed the Iranian threat against Israel, and, surprisingly, expressed his objection to permitting Iran to possess a nuclear bomb, thus dragging the entire region into great danger.
Eventually, it became the story of the boy who cried wolf.
White House spokesman Jay Carney recently reiterated the administration’s mantra about Iran, saying there was still “time and space” for a diplomatic solution to be found to resolve the impasse over its nuclear threat.
By Rotem Sella
Prominent Americans like David Petraeus have been saying non-stop that Israel does not have the capability to destroy Iranian Nuclear capacities, and surely not Iran's ambition to go nuclear. But if Israel can indeed delay the project while in the meantime having taken out of the picture one of Iran's most important allies, then things might look very different from the office of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
By J. E. Dyer
Iran’s relative situation has deteriorated. To regain a sense of leadership and invulnerability – as well as to vindicate Shia Islam over the recent Sunni triumphs in the region – Iran needs a big strategic win. She needs a trump card over the emerging Sunni centers of gravity in Cairo and Ankara.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said at the Pentagon news conference on Tuesday that he doesn't believe that Israel has made a decision to attack Iran's nuclear sites, adding that international sanctions are increasing pressure on Iran to make concessions, the Pentagon has announced. Negotiations with Iran have stalled, with the latter still refusing to give the global powers access to all its nuclear facilities.
By Rotem Sella
When four of out four newspapers in Israel deal with any single subject one can count on the fact that there is a deliberate effort by some personnel to set the headlines on fire.
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