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Ynet News
| 1 year ago
AP Foreign media say Israel's navy ready to test advanced, German-made submarine said to be virtually undetectable by radar, able to launch nuclear missiles Udi Etsion Israel's "doomsday weapon" revealed? The Navy will soon begin its test-deployment...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
A fruitless visit to Iran by UN nuclear inspectors sparked anger and raised tensions on Wednesday, with Russia warning of "catastrophic" consequences if it leads to a military attack on its ally. France said Iran's refusal to allow the inspectors to...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Netanyahu, scheduled to visit Washington D.C. next month, has been maintaining extreme opacity over the war plans with its most important strategic partner, the U.S...Iran Two of Iran's warships entered the Mediterranean last Saturday in the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Authorities detained the cell's members and seized firearms and explosives, according to the Azerbaijani TV report. While some news agencies cited the TV report as saying that the targets were foreign, a Baku-based reporter for Bloomberg quoted AzTV...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
We certainly understand the heightened concern that Israel has given its geographic location and other circumstances that are involved here for Israel," Carney told reporters, discussing Donilon's visit and the White House view on Iran's ambitions. "...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
March 4 and then meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, himself coming to Washington to address the conference, the next day at the White House. Iran is expected to top the agenda for the leaders' meeting, which is indicating it is ready to...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey made news over this week by calling an Israeli-led attack on Iran foolish if attempted anytime soon. Israeli officials aren't impressed, however, and are responding with words of their own...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
McCain, The ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the head of a five member bi-partisan senate delegation touring the region...Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a CNN interview it would not be...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
February 21, 2012 Arab Spring inflating Israel's defense costs, Bibi tells U.S. Jewish leaders The Islamization of the Arab Spring movement has placed enormous pressure on Israeli defenses and progress in the peace process, Benjamin Netanyahu told...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
The Pentagon is disputing reports that Iranian ships docked at a Syrian port over the weekend.Iranian state-run Press TV said Saturday that an Iranian navy destroyer and a supply ship had docked in the port of Tartus to provide training to ally Syria'...
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Associated Press
| 1 year ago
Piece by piece, the tools for an alleged Iranian-directed murder team were smuggled into Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea...The shadow war is picking up as concerns are growing over Iran's alleged weapons experiments. Iran denies charges by the West...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
February 21, 2012 Iranian warships have crossed the Suez Canal on their return from the Syrian port of Tartus, demonstrating Tehran's commitment to back embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose regime has now been thrown a new lifeline by China...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Two Iranian warships sent by Tehran to the Mediterranean last week to help "train the Syrian navy" entered the Suez canal early on Tuesday on their way back to Iran, a canal authorities source told AFP. The ships, a destroyer and supply vessel, came...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
The ships entered the canal from the Mediterranean Sea early in the morning, heading south towards the Red Sea, and were expected to leave the canal on Tuesday afternoon, the source said. The ships had docked at the Syrian port of Tartous, in a show...
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Globes Online
| 1 year ago
19, Adrian Filut A power struggle has erupted between the Bank of Israel and the Ministry of Finance over the management of the sovereign wealth fund for Israel's oil and gas tax revenues. Yesterday's cabinet decision handed management of the fund...
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Asia Times Online
| 1 year ago
Israel and the Republic of Cyprus moved closer in their cooperation on development of undersea gas deposits in their respective exclusive economic zones last week with the visit of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nicosia. Netanyahu's...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
The core differences surround the number of Israeli jets and bombs required to destroy Iran's primary nuclear facilities, as well as the challenge of refueling fighter planes to travel a distance of more than 1,000 miles into Iranian airspace and...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
USA Today founder says Iran's nuclear plans are no big deal by Paul Woodward on February 20, 2012 Al Neuharth , founder of USA Today and former head of Gannett, says there's no justification for so much alarm around Iran's nuclear ambitions. (For the...
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Guardian Unlimited
| over 1 year ago
Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, said UN nuclear inspectors would not be visiting any sites. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters Iran has warned it may extend an oil embargo imposed on Britain and France to other European countries, and...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama will host a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on March 5, the White House said on Monday, a session that will likely center on the West's efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. A White House...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
The visit of a top Obama administration official was supposed to ease tensions between the countries but instead it might have only widened the gap regarding attitudes toward the Iranian nuclear problem. President Obama's National Security Adviser...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Two Iranian warships docked at the Syrian port of Tartus in what was described as a training mission, following a provocative journey through the Suez Canal at a time of global tension over the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions. The vessels, a...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles "If Western countries continue to fully support Syria's opposition, then in the end a large-scale civil war will erupt and there will be no way to thus avoid the possibility of foreign armed intervention," the commentary stated. The...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
The Daily Star Fouad Siniora, Lebanon's former prime minister, is a thoughtful man with deep experience in Middle Eastern politics. So when he speaks of trains with no drivers that seem to be on a collision course, as he recently did at a private...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
An Iranian Navy commander says his country is set to conduct naval exercises with nearby ally Oman in March. Iran looks to be on its way to major naval power status, fighting piracy and cooperating with other countries in the region. Rear Admiral...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
The Americans are particularly worried about the hawkish line that Defense Minister Ehud Barak has adopted on the matter. They apparently have the impression, however, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to come to a final stance on the...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Editorial There are two possible outcomes of the barrage of words being launched against Iran Israel . A negotiated climbdown by both sides is the least likely option, although the venue for one still exists. The next round of talks between Iran and...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
General Martin Dempsey visited Israel last month to deliver a message of restraint. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP The United States is stepping up efforts to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran 's nuclear facilities, with a strong public warning...
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The Age
| over 1 year ago
But differences have emerged in how to respond to the perceived threat. The US and the European Union have both imposed harsh new sanctions targeting Iran's oil sector, the lifeline of the Iranian economy. With the sanctions just beginning to bite,...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
Gen Martin E Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told 'CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS' in an interview that it was still "premature" to decide on the extreme step. "It's not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran," Dempsey said, in...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Now the attempted assassinations of Israeli diplomats by Iranians ... deepen the mood of crisis." Photo: AFP Iran's leadership cannot be looking forward to the northern spring...At the same time we should be aware that the air is getting thicker,...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Iran is to host a high-level team from the UN nuclear watchdog on Monday as part of efforts to defuse dire international tensions over its atomic activities through dialogue. But other words being spoken in Israel, the United States and Britain --...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
The top US military commander said he believed it would be "premature" to take military action against Iran in response to its nuclear program in an interview to be aired Sunday. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
National Liberal Party leader MP Dori Chamoun said on Sunday that he wants a war on Iran, and that he is not afraid of such a war. Everything has limits, and [Western powers] will not allow Iran to possess the atomic bomb, Chamoun told the Voice of...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Israel's Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with Cyprus' President Dimitris Christofias during a news conference at the presidential palace in Nicosia February 16, 2012 . A top US security official was due to meet Israeli Prime Minister...
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Al Jazeera English
| over 1 year ago
27 Iranian warships have crossed the Suez Canal and docked in Syria's port city of Tartous, Iranian state media has reported. The Mehr news agency said on Sunday that Tehran's show of support has caused "extreme worry for zionist forces".
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The Courier-Mail
| over 1 year ago
Iranian nuclear facilities, its military chief of staff says, as a senior US official arrived for talks on the Islamic Republic. "Israel is the central guarantor of its own security; this is our role as army, the State of Israel should defend itself,"...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
The idea that a lot of shopping translates into a healthy economy is dubious...When did it become acceptable to brag about oneself publicly?...The Very Hungry Frenchman', the BBC's current television series following che... Suggested Topics Israel...
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National Public Radio
| over 1 year ago
February 18, 2012 It was one of the more surreal photo ops this week: Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, live on Iranian TV, visiting a nuclear reactor. Ahmadinejad trumpeted his country's nuclear progress, but denied, once again, that Iran is in...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The strategic navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has passed through the Suez Canal for the second time since the Islamic Revolution," Sayari stated. Last February, two Iranian vessels also crossed into the February, prompting Israel to treat it as...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
An Iranian flotilla has arrived in a Syrian port to provide maritime training to the country's navy, media reports. It's only the second time Iranian warships have sailed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. The ships have docked in the...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Iran's Mehr new agency says the destroyer and supply ship docked in the Syrian port of Tartus, some 220 kilometers northwest of the capital, Damascus on Friday. It says the naval deployment will provide maritime training to Syria's naval forces under...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
He did not say how many vessels had crossed the canal, or what missions they were planning to carry out in the Mediterranean, but said the flotilla had previously docked in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. Two Iranian ships, the destroyer Shahid Qandi...
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Asbarez
| over 1 year ago
Hurriyet Daily News)Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited CyprusThursday to discuss energy cooperation, right after Cypriots launched a second licensing round for offshore exploratory drilling that received Turkey's condemnation.
