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| February 13, 2014
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Interview with Former CIA Director James Woolsey: Only IDF Can Stop Iran

Ex-CIA chief says Obama administration has zero military credibility with Iran.

By Ari Soffer

 

Former CIA Director James Woolsey has reiterated his call to release Jonathan Pollard, who is now in his 29th year behind bars in the US on charges of spying for Israel.

James Woolsey – Arutz Sheva

Speaking exclusively to Arutz Sheva, Woolsey noted that the time Pollard has served already is unprecedented for the crimes he was convicted of; namely, spying for a US ally. In the shady world of espionage, even friendly nations spy on each other, he pointed out – an argument Israeli leaders have made particularly ardently since revelations late last year that the US was spying on its closest allies, including Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Continue Reading »

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| January 30, 2014
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US intel assessment: Tehran can now build & deliver nuclear bomb

 

Director of U.S. National Intelligence:  Iran has the means to assemble & deliver nuclear device, but question is whether it has the political will.

By i24News

 

Iran has the technological capabilities to produce nuclear weapons should it decide to do so, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said in a report to a US Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday.

Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper - Photo: Jim Watson/AFP

Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper – Photo: Jim Watson/AFP

The report, titled “US Intelligence Worldwide Threat Assessment,” discusses how Iran could make and deliver nuclear bombs if it made the political decision to do so.

“Tehran has made technical progress in a number of areas — including uranium enrichment, nuclear reactors, and ballistic missiles — from which it could draw if it decided to build missile-deliverable nuclear weapons,” wrote Clapper.

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| December 16, 2013
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Professor Alan Dershowitz: Ignore Int’l Law, it’s out of date, unjust

Israel legal advocate urges Israel to act as it sees fit on Iran. Int’l law is ‘a construct in the mind of a bunch of left wing academics.’

 

Video: Professor Alan Dershowitz explains irrelevancy of Int’l Laws

By Gil Ronen

 

 

Esteemed advocate Alan Dershowitz says that Israel should ignore international law when deciding how to deal with Iran.

Professor Alan Dershowitz: Obama is making a mistake with P5+1 agreement – Photo: Dudi Vaaknin

International law is “a construct in the mind of a bunch of left wing academics,” he said, in a lecture at the Institute of National Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv last week “There is no basis for international law in any reality. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2013
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Iranian media reports Saudi intel chief met with Israeli officials in Geneva

 

 

Iranian news agency cites reports that Israeli government officials met with the director general of Saudi Intelligence Agency in order to discuss:

1. containing Iran by any possible means
2. exercising stronger control over Syria’s Jihadist forces
3. sidelining Muslim Brotherhood

By Ynet

Director General of Saudi Intelligence Agency Bandar bin Sultan met several times with Israeli officials in Geneva, Iranian news agency Fars reported.

Secret talks? Israeli PM Netanyahu, Saudi King Abdullah (Photos: EPA, AP)

Secret talks? Israeli PM Netanyahu, Saudi King Abdullah – Photos: EPA, AP

The report is based on a Saudi Twitter account that is “well connected with the inner circles of the Saudi secret service”. Continue Reading »

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| December 8, 2013
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Israel’s Prime Minister: Teheran Must Renounce Genocide

At Saban Forum, Israel’s Prime Minister says stopping Iran’s nuclear program is not enough – Teheran’s policy must also change.

By Gil Ronen

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Sunday at the Saban Forum and said that stopping Iran’s nuclear program is not enough – Iran’s policy of genocide must change, too.

Netanyahu quoted incendiary statements by Iran’s leaders, who called Israel “a rabid dog,” among other things.

The Iranian regime, he said, “is committed to our annihilation and I believe that there must be an uncompromising demand at the Geneva talks, for a change in Iran’s policy. In other words, there needs to be not just a change in the capability of Iran to arm itself, but also a change in its policy of genocide. Continue Reading »

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| December 4, 2013
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Every day delayed to initiate P1+5 nukes deal gives Iran time to acquire bomb

“Every day that goes by where Iran is not bound to roll back its nuclear program, but still can benefit from a shift in the market psychology, from fear to greed, puts money in the regime’s pocket, without doing anything to address their growing nuclear weapons capacity,” said the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

 

WASHINGTON (JTA) — There’s the six-month interim deal on Iran’s nuclear program that trades some sanctions relief for a freeze on Iran’s nuclear program. And then there’s the interim before the interim begins.

Under the terms of an agreement reached last month, Iran has vowed not to make “any further advances of its activities” at its reactor in Arak.

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| December 4, 2013
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Ex-US & Israeli Intel Chiefs: Obama Let Iran become Nuclear

 

 

Both former American and Israeli intel chiefs agree: The P5+1 Geneva agreement has allowed Iran to become a nuclear power.

By Ryan Jones

 

 

Former Israeli and American intelligence chiefs this week said the deal US President Barack Obama and other Western leaders struck with Iran last week in Geneva had essentially allowed the Islamic Republic to become a “nuclear threshold state.”

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More accurately, former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said that the West had failed for decades to adequately confront the Iranian nuclear threat, and so had finally given up and signed a bad deal.

“The fact that Iran is a nuclear threshold state does not derive from this agreement, but because the Iranians have developed capabilities for years, and no one can stop them,” Yadlin said at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Continue Reading »

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| December 2, 2013
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Teheran: Saudis plotting with Israel on new computer worm to sabotage Iranian nuclear program

The Iranian state-owned news agency reports that last week, the Saudi spy agency & Israel’s Mossad hashed out a proposal for production of malware ‘worse than the Stuxnet.’

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Israel and Saudi Arabia are reportedly collaborating to create a new destructive computer worm to “spy on and destroy the software structure” of Iran‘s nuclear program, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars said over the weekend.

Uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, Iran

A technician checks valves at the uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, Iran, February 3, 2007.- Photo: Reuters

Fars, the outlet of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, quoted “an informed source” close to the Saudi secret service as saying that Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Mossad head Tamir Pardo each sent a representative to Vienna on November 24 with the purpose of increasing the “‘two sides’ cooperation in intelligence and sabotage operations against Iran’s nuclear program.” Continue Reading »

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| December 1, 2013
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UK news report: Israel’s PM orders Mossad to gather proof Teheran violating Geneva accord

London’s ‘Sunday Times’ quotes Israeli defense sources as saying Israel wants to discredit the P5+1 Geneva deal by producing evidence of Iranian covert duplicity.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered both the Mossad and Military Intelligence to search for evidence that Iran is continuing nuclear activities forbidden under the Geneva accord signed with world powers last week, The Sunday Times quoted Israeli defense sources as saying.

Satellite photos show Iran 'sanitizing' Parchin

Satellite photos show Iran ‘sanitizing’ Parchin – Photo: REUTERS

Proof that Iran was violating the terms of the six-month interim deal would complicate US President Barack Obama’s push to delay the passage of new congressional sanctions against Iran while a long-term deal with Iran is being negotiated. Continue Reading »

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| November 30, 2013
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Iranian IAEA Envoy Attacks Israeli ‘Aggression’

According to an Iranian envoy, Israel is “sitting on 200 nuclear warheads” as it is “crying wolf” about Iran’s nukes.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) slammed Israel on Friday, accusing the Jewish state of attacking its neighbors and committing atrocities.

IAEA officials – AFP/File Photo

“Israel, sitting on 200 nuclear warheads all of them targeted at Muslim cities … is crying wolf about nuclear proliferation,” the envoy, Reza Najafi, told the UN nuclear agency.

“This regime (has) a long history of aggression against neighbors, atrocity against peoples under occupation and clandestine development of all kinds of” weapons of mass destruction, he declared in the comments quoted by The Associated Press (AP). Continue Reading »

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| November 29, 2013
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Israeli experts: Iran Could Have a Nuclear Device in 5 Weeks

Israeli experts: P5+1 deal leaves Iran capable of producing nuclear weapon within 36 days.

US also allows Tehran to keep building the Arak heavy water & nuclear plant.

By Tova Dvorin

 

Iran could be armed with a nuclear weapon within just over a month, Maariv reports Thursday. The report was forwarded to diplomats and international experts this week.

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Mark 7 nuclear bomb: Photo: National Museum of the United States Air Force

Israeli experts have estimated that Tehran’s schedule for nuclear enrichment has only been delayed for up to two weeks, according to the report, less than one week after a deal has been reached between Western powers and the Iranian government regarding the nuclear program. Continue Reading »

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| November 29, 2013
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Iran’s Sunni neighbors seeking assurances P5+1 nuclear deal not danger to them

 

Bahrain’s Interior Minister Sheikh al-Khalifa says Iran’s Arab neighbors are still very concerned about Islamic republic’s nuclear program and want assurance that the West’s nuclear deal will indeed enhance regional security in the Gulf.

By Reuters

 

Iran’s Arab neighbors, deeply worried about Iran’s nuclear program, want assurances that Tehran’s deal with world powers will indeed enhance regional security, Bahrain’s interior minister said on Thursday.

Bahrain’s Interior Minister al-Khalifa – Photo: AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH

US-allied Gulf Arab states, led by top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, have cautiously welcomed the November 24 interim accord as a step towards curbing what they fear is a secret Iranian program to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Continue Reading »

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| November 27, 2013
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Obama’s Agenda & the goal of the White House’s foreign policy

 

The administration’s goal is not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The goal of Obama’s foreign policy is to weaken the State of Israel.

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

 

 

It isn’t surprising that the US and the other five powers signed a deal with Iran on Saturday. Over the past few weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry made it clear that they were committed to signing a deal with Iran as quickly as possible.

US President Barack Obama - Photo Alexei Danichev, Host Photo Agency via Getty Images

US President Barack Obama – Photo: Alexei Danichev, Host Photo Agency via Getty Images

And it isn’t surprising that the deal these overeager leaders signed with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism makes the world a much more dangerous place than it was before the agreement was concluded. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2013
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Ex-IDF Intel Chief: Focus on the Bright Side

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yadlin reports that the deal made with Iran is much better than what was offered two weeks ago – and Netanyahu should take some credit for that.

By Gil Ronen

 

Major General (res.) Amos Yadlin, the former Head of Military Intelligence and current head of the Institute of National Strategic Studies, struck an upbeat note regarding the deal struck by the US and five other powers with Iran, regarding its nuclear weapons program.

Speaking on Channel 2‘s early-evening newscast Six, Yadlin said sarcastically that when he heard the first reactions of alarm to the deal, he “thought that perhaps Iran had received permission to build a nuclear bomb.” Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2013
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Report: Behind the scene ‘Secret US-Iran Talks’ that made the deal

 

Le Figaro reports the U.S. had a secret channel of talks with Iran held in Oman, that began in September.

It was after Obama informed him of the talks, Netanyahu gave his scathing U.N. speech.

 By Boaz Bismuth, Israel Hayom Staff & The Associated Press

 

 

The United States and Iran secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year, in a high-stakes diplomatic gamble by the Obama administration that paved the way for the historic deal sealed early Sunday in Geneva aimed at slowing Tehran’s nuclear program, The Associated Press has learned.

U.S. diplomat William Burns – Photo: AP

The discussions were kept hidden even from America’s closest friends, including its negotiating partners and Israel, until two months ago, and that may explain how the nuclear accord appeared to come together so quickly after years of stalemate and fierce hostility between Iran and the West.

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