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23 Dec 2009

Rethinking preemption

Recent statements by senior US and Israeli officials regarding Iranian intransigence with regard to international calls for negotiation has raised once again the issue of preemptive military action. The international community's most recent analogy vis- -vis preemption is president George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq.
Recent statements by senior US and Israeli officials regarding Iranian intransigence with regard to international calls...
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4 Nov 2009

Israeli commandos storm arms ship from Iran bound for Hezbollah

Navy special forces on Wednesday took control of an Iranian vessel carrying arms intended for Hezbollah in a daring pre-dawn raid not far from Cyprus. The ship was believed to have set out from Iran and later docked in Yemen and Sudan before sailing through the Suez Canal. Its final destination was believed to be either Syria or Lebanon.
Navy special forces on Wednesday took control of an Iranian vessel carrying arms intended for Hezbollah in a daring...
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22 Oct 2009

Iran denies ‘secret Israel talks’

Iran has denied newspaper reports that its officials had held secret talks recently with their Israeli counterparts to explore the possibility of declaring the Middle East a nuclear-free zone.
Iran has denied newspaper reports that its officials had held secret talks recently with their Israeli counterparts to...
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22 Oct 2009

Israel and Iran hold secret nuclear talks in Cairo

A representative of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a senior Iranian official met last month to discuss the chances of declaring the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, Haaretz has learned. This is the first direct meeting between official representatives of the two states since the fall of the Shah in 1979.
A representative of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a senior Iranian official met last month to discuss the...
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30 Sep 2009

On Leadership Panelists Bad leaders like Ahmadinejad must be forced to change.

During the past thirty years, Iran has been a sworn enemy of the United States. During the past five years, Iran has become far more powerful a player than before -- this in a region of critical strategic importance. During the past five years, Iran has sought aggressively to acquire more arms, now including nuclear arms. During the past year (as well as before) Iran oppressed its own dissenters -- many to the point of persecution. Finally, Ahmadinejad has himself, ironically, repeatedly and in no uncertain terms, been a Holocaust denier and Jew-hater. To gild this lily he has spoken openly and frequently of obliterating the state of Israel, of "wiping it off the map."
During the past thirty years, Iran has been a sworn enemy of the United States. During the past five years, Iran has...
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holocaust, israel, nuclear issue, regime change, usa
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9 Apr 2009

Israel Cries Wolf

"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, whereas the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option.". Benjamin Netanyahu 2009? Try again. These words were in fact uttered by another Israeli prime minister (and now Israeli president), Shimon Peres, in 1996. Four years earlier, in 1992, he d predicted that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999.
"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because...
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israel, nuclear issue, warmongering
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5 Apr 2008

Israel’s Tehran connection

"Israel imports Iranian oil on a large scale even though contacts with Iran and purchasing of its products are officially boycotted by Israel. Israel gets around the boycott by having the oil delivered via Europe. A reliable Israeli energy newsletter, EnergiaNews, reported this last week
"Israel imports Iranian oil on a large scale even though contacts with Iran and purchasing of its products are...
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