Israel’s Peres: Chavez, Ahmadinejad will fall
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 18. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
MICHAEL WARREN
Associated Press
November 18, 2009
Israel President Shimon Peres predicts the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long.
Speaking at a forum in Argentina Tuesday, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil, which he says is not bad to sell but “really dangerous if you [...]
Time for an Israeli Strike?
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 02. Jul, 2009 | 1 Comment
John R. Bolton
The Washington Post
July 2, 2009
With Iran’s hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel’s decision of whether to use military force against Tehran’s nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.
Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility [...]
Israeli navy boards activist ship to Gaza
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 30. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Reuters
July 1, 2009
The Israeli navy boarded a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in defiance of an Israeli blockade and took the vessel to a port in Israel.
“No shots were fired during the boarding of the boat,” the Israeli military said in a statement. A police source said [...]
Israel keeps Mossad chief on for Iran “shadow war”
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 21. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Dan Williams
Reuters
June 21, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended the tenure of the Mossad chief to an eighth year on Sunday, a testament to the spymaster’s perceived success in waging shadow wars against Iran and its allies. Meir Dagan, a former commando and retired general, took over Mossad in 2002 with what security sources described [...]
Iran nuclear leaks ‘linked to Israel’
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 04. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Gareth Porter
Asia Times
June 4, 2009
WASHINGTON – A report on Iran’s nuclear program issued by the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicizing an incendiary charge that US intelligence is underestimating Iran’s progress in designing a “nuclear warhead” before the halt in nuclear weapons-related in 2003.
That false and misleading charge [...]
Israel gives mixed signals on any attack on Iran
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 03. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Conor Sweeney
Reuters
June 3, 2009
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Israel issued contradictory signals on Wednesday on whether it might bomb Iran, with its foreign minister saying there were no such plans and the defense minister saying all options were on the table.
Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East’s only nuclear power, has repeatedly described Iran’s uranium enrichment [...]