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Hezbollah Denies Link To Arms Ship Seized By Israel

AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country's ...

Israel Seizes Iranian Arms Bound For Hezbollah, Say Officials

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Open crates from a cargo ship seized Wednesday by Israel revealed dark green missiles inside. Containers from the vessel bore writin...

Iran, Israel Hold Secret Nuclear Talks In Cairo: Haaretz

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home


A representative of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a senior Iranian official met last month to discuss the chances of declaring...

Iran To "Blow Up The Heart Of Israel" If Attacked, Says Top Official

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.09.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will "blow up the heart of Israel" if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran's mo...

Iran Mania

Hooman Majd | Posted 09.28.2009 | World


Hooman Majd

Ahmadinejad left New York with no more questions about his legitimacy, the American hikers in jail in Iran, or rape, torture and forced confessions in Tehran's prisons. No, from now on it's going to be all nukes, all the time.

Russia Stand On Iran Sanctions Welcomed By Israel

AP | Posted 09.24.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official welcomes steps by Russia toward endorsing additional sanctions against Iran as a way of stopping its nucle...

Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics


Thomas Lipscomb

Zbigniew Brzezinski made news recently by implying that the US should be prepared to militarily confront any Israeli planes headed for a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

No Iran Strike Planned By Israel, Medvedev Says

AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 09.20.2009 | World


MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Israeli officials have assured him that they are not planning a military strike on Iran. In an ...

Netanyahu Europe Trip: Israeli Settlements To Dominate Talks

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World


LONDON — Benjamin Netanyahu's talks in Europe this week will force the Israeli leader to balance the demands of his right-leaning ruling coaliti...

Israel On Iran: Anything It Takes To Stop Nukes

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 08.27.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel hardened its insistence Monday that it would do anything it felt necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, just the...

Israel: Brazil Can Help Stop Iran's Nuclear Program

AP | MARCO SIBAJA | Posted 08.22.2009 | World


BRASILIA, Brazil — Israel's foreign minister met with Brazil's president Wednesday and asked Latin America's biggest nation to use its influence...

Israel Warships Cross Suez In Possible Iran Signal

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.14.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Two Israeli warships sailed through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, Israeli and Egyptian officials said, a move that appeared to be a new...

Biden Israel-Iran Statements Cause Storm Of Regional Responses

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.07.2009 | World


The effects of Vice President Joe Biden's recent remarks during an interview with ABC's "This Week"--where he implied that Israel has a sovereign righ...

Saudi Arabia, Israel Talks For Shared Airspace Against Iran Denied By Saudis

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


Following Vice President Joe Biden's statements in an interview on ABC's "The Week"--which many believe to amount to a tacit condoning of a hypothetic...

Obama's Doublespeak on Iran

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


Ismael Hossein-zadeh

In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.

Lieberman: Bombing Iran Not Israel's Intent

AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 07.04.2009 | World


MOSCOW — Israel does not intend to bomb Iran, Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday, stepping back from suggestions it might attack a major f...

What if the Israelis Were to Bomb Iran?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...

Israeli Jets Practicing For Possible Iran Clash

AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | World


Israel's air force held a large-scale exercise simulating war on several fronts with enemies that include Iran, Israeli defense officials said Friday....

Why Iranians Want Nukes: Analysis

Foreign Policy | Posted 06.19.2009 | World


In their talks today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama will no doubt have discussed the uncomfortable subject...

Iranian Military Vows To "Wipe Israel Out Of Existence" If Attacked

Huffington Post | Posted 06.19.2009 | World


Video news coverage of interviews with Iranian military officials conducted in early May reveal the troubling increased contentiousness between the Is...

Netanyahu To Pope: 'Sound Your Moral Voice Against The Iranian Threat'

Haaretz | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday asked Pope Benedict XVI to condemn the anti-Semitic declarations of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadineja...

Iran Arrests Israeli Jaffa Orange Importers For Conspiring To 'Smear The Government'

Press TV | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


Iran has arrested individuals behind a scheme to 'smear the government' through importing alleged Israeli oranges into the country. ...

No Linkage Between Iran and Palestinians

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 06.11.2009 | World


Alan Dershowitz

Rahm Emanuel recently linked American efforts to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons to Israeli efforts toward establishing a Palestinian state. This is a dangerous linkage.

Netanyahu Starting To Look Worried: Analysis

Haaretz | Posted 06.08.2009 | World


his week, for the first time since he took office, Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu has been looking worried. People who have spoken with him ...

Peres: Iran A Threat To US, Europe

AP | Posted 06.04.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — Israel's president charged Monday that Iran's nuclear program threatens the United States, Europe and Arab nations, as well as Isra...