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| September 30, 2013
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Iranian FM: Israel can’t assassinate all our nuclear scientists

 

Iranian Foreign Minister said in an interview with ABC, the US is ‘allowing terrorists to kill innocent Iranian scientists’.

Zarif went on to claim Teheran believes nuclear weapons are ‘detrimental’ to the country’s security.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

WASHINGTON – A day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled address before the UN General Assembly’s annual meeting in New York, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attacked Israel, saying it “cannot kill all of our scientists. They have unfortunately assassinated some of them and nobody has raised an eyebrow about it, which is a source of great concern for us about the world. Continue Reading »

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| September 29, 2013
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Lieberman warns of Iran’s disingenuous ‘charm offensive’

 

 

The Chairman of Yisrael Beytenu says Iran is engaging in a pattern of deceit, as PM Netanyahu heads to address the UN in New York.

Lieberman alludes to the 1981 attack of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor as another case where Israel stood alone.

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Avigdor Lieberman, the former chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, is warning that “Rohani’s appeasement assault is nothing but another false trick, in the style of North Korea” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to New York to speak at the UN’s General Assembly.

Avigdor Lieberman, the former chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee – Photo: AP

In a post on his Facebook page, the former foreign minister wrote: “Now, when the world’s attention is focused on the new Iranian president’s attempts to appear moderate and conciliatory, it is worth noting that the Iranians have long employed a pattern of deceit: various promise tactics, stalling and feeding the international community with false information time and time again, all the while pursuing their goal of obtaining a nuclear weapon, meant to threaten world peace.” Continue Reading »

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| September 25, 2013
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Israel’s PM: Iranian President Trying to Buy Time

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declares, Iranian President’s speech at the UN was “cynical & full of hypocrisy,” 

By Elad Benari

 

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly was “cynical and full of hypocrisy,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday night.

In a statement he released shortly after Rouhani’s speech, Netanyahu said that the speech reflects the Iranian plan, namely to “talk and buy time in order to promote the ability of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.”

“Rouhani spoke about human rights while Iranian forces are taking part in the massacre of innocent civilians in Syria, he condemned terrorism while the Iranian regime carries out terrorism in dozens of countries around the world,” said Netanyahu, who added that although Rouhani said that nuclear weapons “contradict Iranian morality” a report by the UN’s atomic agency indicates otherwise. Continue Reading »

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| September 20, 2013
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Israel’s Prime Minister: Don’t be Fooled by Rouhani

Prime Minister Netanyahu warns, “The Iranians are creating spin in the press in order to keep the centrifuges spinning,”

By Arutz Sheva

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reacted Thursday to Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s latest interview, in which he sounded a moderate tone, and said – “Let us not be fooled by the Iranian president’s words of deception.”

PM Netanyahu – From PMO vide

“The Iranians are creating media spin in order to keep the centrifuges spinning,” a statement from Netanyahu’s bureau said. “The test is not in Rouhani’s words, but in the deeds of the Iranian regime, which continues to vigorously pursue its nuclear program at the same time that Rouhani grants interviews.” Continue Reading »

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| September 19, 2013
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Iranian President: Teheran seeks peace, but Israel to blame for Mideast instability

Iranian president says Teheran desires ‘peace & friendship,’ but slams Israel as ‘occupier’ that “has brought instability to the region with its war-mongering policies.”

By Reuters

 

 

Iranian President Hassan Rohani, in a television interview, said his country is not seeking war but harshly criticized Israel for bringing “instability” to the Middle East and for questioning his government’s intentions toward nuclear arms.

Iranian President Hassan Rohani speaks to NBC's Ann Curry in Tehran, September 18, 2013.

Iranian President Hassan Rohani speaks to NBC’s Ann Curry in Tehran, September 18, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

The comments from the new Iranian president came during the second part of an interview with NBC News that aired on Thursday, just days before he travels to New York for an appearance at the United Nations. Continue Reading »

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| September 18, 2013
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Israel’s nuclear head accuses Tehran of deception to buy time for its atomic plans

 

Shaul Chorev, director of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission: “Illusion of transparency is contrasted by facts on the ground.”

By REUTERS

 

 

VIENNA – Israel accused Iran on Wednesday of using “deception and concealment” to buy time for its nuclear program, signalling skepticism that the Islamic state’s new government would agree to curb its atomic activities.

Shaul Chorev, director of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission [file].

Shaul Chorev, director of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission [file]. – Photo: REUTERS/Herwig Prammer

The election of a relative moderate, Hassan Rouhani, as new Iranian president has raised hopes of progress in long-stalled efforts to find a peaceful solution to the decade-old dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.But

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| September 3, 2013
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Iranian General Suggests that Israel is Close to Striking It

Lebanese daily newspaper reports senior Iranian military officer visited underground bunker of Hezbollah leader and briefed him on Teheran’s assessment.

By Gil Ronen

 

Iran believes that Israel is close to stiking its nuclear facilities, according to a report in Lebanese newspaper Al Jumhuriya, cited by Maariv/NRG. According to the report, a senior Iranian official recently visited Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in his hideout in the Dahiya section section of Beirut to discuss this assessment.

A senior military source confirmed to the Lebanese newspaper that the meeting had, indeed, taken place, but said that it had not been held inside the Dahiya – a neighborhood controlled by Hezbollah – but outside it. Continue Reading »

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| August 8, 2013
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Israeli Minister: Iran’s nuclear program can be destroyed with a few hours of airstrikes

 

Satellite imagery identify new missiles test-site being constructed north of Semnan province.

Minister Steinitz: President Rouhani is cunning, & he’ll smile all the way to the bomb.

By News Agencies, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Iran’s new president Hasan Rouhani is “charming, he is cunning, and he will smile all the way to the bomb,” Minister for International, Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz said in an interview with The Washington Post, published on Thursday. Israel believes the United States and others in the West are being misled by the moderate cleric’s recent election to the presidency. Steinitz told the Post that rather than negotiating with Tehran, the U.S.

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| August 7, 2013
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Netanyahu to Congressmen: The US Keeps Iran from Bomb

 

At a meeting with visiting US Congress officials Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that pressure on Iran must be kept up.

By David Lev

 

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday met with a delegation of 36 U.S. Congress members who are visiting Israel. Leading the delegation is Maryland Representative Steny Hoyer (D), currently the House minority whip.

Netanyahu held a round-table discussion with the Congresspeople, presenting Israel’s case on a number of regional and security issues.

Netanyahu also discussed Iran with the group, saying that the U.S. needed to more forcefully press Iran to stop its nuclear development program. Continue Reading »

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| July 14, 2013
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Despite new president Iran continues ‘race toward bomb’

PM Netanyahu tells cabinet Rohani’s election has not slowed or changed Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

 

The PM calls for harsher sanctions & to discuss ‘credible military option’

By Noam (Dabul) Dvir

 

“A month has passed since elections were held in Iran, and Iran continues to race toward the development of military nuclear capability,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.

'No change in Iran's policy.' Rohani (Photo: AP)

Rohani – Photo: AP

The PM said that under President-Elect Hassan Rohani‘s leadership Iran is “expanding and perfecting its (uranium) enrichment while simultaneously developing a plutonium reactor to produce material for a nuclear bomb. Continue Reading »

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| July 9, 2013
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Snowden verifies Israel & U.S. created Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran

The Stuxnet virus in 2010 wrought havoc on equipment that disabled 1,000 centrifuges being used by the Iranians to enrich uranium.

By JTA

 

 

Whistleblower Edward Snowden told a German magazine that Israel and the United States created the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed nuclear centrifuges in Iran. 

Iran's Ahmadinejad at Natanz nuclear facility

Snowden made the statement as part of an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel in which he answered encrypted questions sent by security software developer Jacob Appelbaum and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. Excerpts of the interview were published Monday on the Spiegel website.

Snowden was asked if the U.S. National Security Agency partners “with other nations, like Israel?”

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| June 7, 2013
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New & Improved U.S. ‘bunker buster’ underwent successful test

Hebrew daily reports: The U.S.’s upgraded bunker buster bomb destroyed a replica of Iran’s underground nuclear facility in its recently conducted test.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

In an effort to show Israel and other ally states that it is capable of striking Iran’s nuclear plants, the US has recently conducted a test of its bunker buster bomb, destroying a replica of an underground nuclear facility, Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot reported on Friday.

Fordo nuclear siteThe nuclear facility replica, that cost millions of dollars to build, was made of concrete and buried under dozens of feet of dirt and rocks, Yediot reported.

The results of the test were reported to the US’s ally states, among them Israel, to show that Washington is serious about its intentions to strike Tehran’s nuclear facilities, and to demonstrate its ability to specifically target Iran’s underground Fordow uranium enrichment plant near the city of Qom.

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| June 5, 2013
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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor reportedly damaged by 2 earthquakes

 

Saudi Arabia & other Arab diplomats say they are particularly worried because they have received information that the Bushehr reactor was damaged during recent earthquakes, with long cracks appearing in at least one section of the structure.

By The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

Several countries monitoring Iran’s nuclear program have picked up information that the country’s only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more of several recent earthquakes, with long cracks appearing in at least one section of the structure, two diplomats said Tuesday.

The Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran – Photo: AP

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| June 2, 2013
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Iran’s Arak reactor beginning to worry Western and Israeli leaders

Iran’s research reactor could easily yield plutonium for bombs. Islamic Republic says the use is for civilian purposes only, there will be no reprocessing.

By Reuters

 

 

Iran aims to start a reactor next year which the West fears could arm an atomic bomb; Israel, which has bombed such construction sites around the Middle East before, may try to stop the plant being completed.

Arak heavy-water research plant – Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons

The timetable for the planned start-up of the Arak heavy-water research plant is closely watched: Israeli and Western experts say any attacker would probably prefer to act before it becomes operational – to avoid generating radioactive fallout. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Axis of Evil: Syrian chemical weapons, Hezbollah rockets, Iranian nuclear program

 

By Israel Hayom Staff and Reuters

 

The radical axis of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah has crossed all red lines recently, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday.

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Lieberman – Photo: AP

Speaking at a meeting of his committee, Lieberman said that Iran was moving at a “crazy pace” toward obtaining a nuclear weapon, and that he hoped Israel would be able to make the correct decisions. Continue Reading »

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