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| August 5, 2012
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Netanyahu: Even if US attacks Iran, Israel won’t be spared

In closed talks, PM says missiles will be fired at Israel even if US strikes Iran, and thinks the likelihood of a US strike is small

Itamar Eichner

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in closed talks over the weekend that a United States strike on Iran will not necessarily minimize the chances of a missile attack on Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.

“I would prefer that the US attack Iran, but the likelihood of that is small,” he said. “In any case – even if the US attacks, missiles will be fired at Israel.”

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| August 2, 2012
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‘Missile falling on Tel Aviv will unleash unprecedented Israeli response’

Former intelligence chief Amos Yadlin: When missiles start falling on Tel Aviv Israel’s legitimacy will drastically increase, as will our ability to do things not done before.

The real threat facing Israel is not long-range missiles, but small rockets, former Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, who heads the Institute for National Security Studies, said on Thursday at a conference on “Israel’s Homefront Preparedness.”

Former Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. (res) Amos Yadlin says when missiles fall on the Gush Dan area, “Israel’s legitimacy to take action will drastically increase,” – Photo: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch

“Israel is not threatened by 200,000 missiles, as previously claimed.

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| August 2, 2012
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Ahmadinejad: Annihilate Israel, ‘Zionism is the modern times plight of the human society’

Iran’s President Ahmadinejad, again calls for the annihilation of Israel, saying its “the axis of unity of the world hegemonic powers.”

By Chana Ya’ar

 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again called for the annihilation of Israel, which he labeled “the axis of unity of the world hegemonic powers.”

Speaking in advance of International Qods Day, set this year for August 17, Ahmadinejad repeated his annual litany of hate for the Jewish State in a meeting with ambassadors and embassy personnel of Islamic nations in Tehran, according to the official state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), quoting from a statement posted on the website of his presidential office. Continue Reading »

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| July 29, 2012
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Netanyahu & Romney discus danger of a nuclear Iran during Jerusalem meeting

The PM mentions long friendship with Romney, agrees wholeheartedly with his stance on Iran.

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was warmly received Sunday morning by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who emphasized the need for a credible military threat against Iran.

Netanyahu meets Mitt Romney in Jerusalem - Reuters - July 29, 2012

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Jerusalem July 29, 2012. – Photo by Reuters

“You said the greatest danger facing the world is of the ayatollah regime possessing a nuclear capability,” Netanyahu told Romney. “Mitt, I couldn’t agree with you more.”

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| July 26, 2012
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Iran accuses Israel of committing Bulgaria suicide attack

Iranian envoy to UN to Security Council: Israeli agents attacked their own people in Bulgaria

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Iran’s UN envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.

A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Burgas bus

A burned out bus in Burgas, Bulgaria following a terrorist attack on July 18.

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| July 14, 2012
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Experts: U.S. Cyber War on Iran is only Beginning

Experts believe the U.S. cyber war against Iran’s nuclear program is only just beginning and could escalate.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

 

A U.S. cyber war against Iran’s nuclear program may have only just begun and could escalate with explosions triggered by digital sabotage, experts told AFP on Friday.

Although the Iranian regime remains vulnerable to more cyber attacks in the aftermath of the Stuxnet worm that disrupted its uranium enrichment work, Tehran may be receiving help from Russian proxies for its digital security, some analysts said.

According to David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is “really not that well protected” from more digital assaults and Iran will be hard-pressed to safeguard its uranium enrichment efforts from tainted software. Continue Reading »

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| July 9, 2012
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New book claims Israel sent Mossad hit teams to Iran

According to authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in “Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars,” Israeli operatives have killed at least four Iranian nuclear scientists • Methods include targeting them from motorcycles, an assassination technique used by the Israeli spy service, the Mossad.

By The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

A new book claims Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, dispatched assassins into Iran as part of a campaign to sabotage the country’s disputed nuclear program. In their newly published book, “Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars,” authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman say Israeli operatives have killed at least four Iranian nuclear scientists, with methods including targeting them from motorcycles, an assassination technique used by the Israeli spy service, the Mossad.

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| July 7, 2012
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General: Iran to close strait if threatened

Top commander says Iran won’t shut strategic waterway, unless its interests are compromised

By AFP

 

Iran has plans to close the Strait of Hormuz, which sees more than a third of the world’s oil tanker traffic, but only if the country’s interests are seriously threatened.

Iranian navy at Strait of Hormuz Photo: EPA

Iranian navy at Strait of Hormuz – Photo: EPA

“We have plans to close the Strait of Hormuz because military commanders must have plans for any situation,” Iran’s armed forces chief of staff, General Hassan Firouzabadi, said late Friday according to ISNA news agency.

“But Iran, acting rationally, will not close the corridor through which 40% of the world’s energy passes, unless its interests are in serious trouble,” he said. Continue Reading »

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| June 22, 2012
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Co-chair of Bipartisan Policy Center to Congress: Israel needs bombs, refueling tankers for strike on Iran

Former Senator calls on Congress to provide Israel with 200 bunker busters and aerial refueling military aircrafts.

 

 

Former Senator Charles Robb co-chairman of the Bipartisan Policy Center said that in order to perform a successful attack on Iran Israel’s aerial refueling capabilities and bunker-buster bomb stores need to be enhanced. Robb, who was giving testimony at a Congress subcommittee, presented the material gaps in the IDF’s preparedness for an attack on Iran, and called on the United States to provide Israel with KC-135 aerial refueling military aircrafts and 200 bunker-busting munitions to supplement the 100 Israel already holds.

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| June 5, 2012
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PM: Iran giving Assad ‘personnel’ to kill his own people

Netanyahu tells German daily that Iran, Hezbollah supporting “brutality,” “butchery,” says Syria has “perfected the technique” for shelling its own civilians; avoids answering if West should intervene.

Iran is providing Syrian President Bashar Assad with both arms and personnel to butcher his people, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in an interview published Tuesday in the German daily Bild.

“I think what is happening in Syria is awful, it is wholesale murder,” Netanyahu said. “And you have to understand who is supporting this brutality, this butchery – it is Iran and Hezbollah. I mean supporting them physically. Killers supporting killers, giving them weapons, personnel to actually do the killing.

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| June 3, 2012
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Iran builds new space center to launch satellites

Iran’s defense minister says that his country will soon be able to launch domestically made satellites into orbit.

Iran is finishing construction of a new space center that will allow it to soon launch more domestically made satellites into orbit, the country’s defense minister said Saturday.

The remarks by Gen. Ahmad Vahidi’s were the first confirmation that Iran is building a new space facility amid the standoff with the West over Iran’s controversial nuclear program. The West is concerned the program masks efforts to make atomic weapons, a charge Iran denies, insisting it’s only for peaceful purposes.

 

Iran space program Feb. 29, 2012 (AP)

Iranian technicians work at the satellite data receiving site of the Alborz station, in Mahdasht 40 miles west of the capital Tehran, Iran.

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| May 30, 2012
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Iran official: Fallout from western military action in Syria will bury Israel

Iranian Parliamentary Speaker and top aide to Supreme Leader Khamenei says Syrian crisis is not similar to situation in Libya, warning West of their ‘dangerous game.’

A western military intervention in war-torn Syria will result in a regional upheaval that would undoubtedly engulf Israel, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday, following a massacre in the Syrian city of Houla, which garnered severe criticism in the West.

Syria - AP - 23.5.2012

Image released by Shaam News Network, purporting to show a building on fire from shelling in Homs province, Syria - Photo by AP

Russia said on Wednesday that the UN Security Council should not consider new measures to resolve the crisis in Syria at this point and signaled it would block any effort to authorize military intervention, the Interfax news agency reported. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2012
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Report: Iran sought to strike Jewish, U.S. targets in Azerbaijan

Plot linked to Iran was part of shadow war between Iran and West, unnamed officials tell Washington Post; Iran apparently suspended attempts ahead of current round of nuclear talks with six world powers.

Iran has been implicated in a foiled plot to attack foreign and Jewish targets in Azerbaijan, according to a report published by the Washington Post on Monday.

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An injured person is carried from a burning car belonging to the Israeli Embassy as it is in flames after an explosion, in New Delhi, India - Photo by AP

The report quotes unnamed “U.S. and Middle Eastern security officials” who cited a six-page official report containing details of the investigation. Continue Reading »

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| May 27, 2012
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Panetta: Military option against Iran ready and available

US secretary of defense tells ABC news neither Washington nor international community will allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, adds preference for diplomacy over military intervention.

 

The military option against Iran is ready and available, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on Sunday in an interview with ABC News’ This Week.

“The fundamental premise is that neither the United States nor the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon,” Panetta said. “We will do everything we can to prevent them from developing a weapon.”

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta [file] - Photo: REUTERS/Larry Downing

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta - Photo: REUTERS/Larry Downing

Panetta referenced recent comments made earlier this month by US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro that Washington has a military contingency plan, should diplomatic talks fail to convince Iran to abandon its nuclear program. Continue Reading »

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| May 27, 2012
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No gaps exist between the U.S. and Israel on Iran nuclear program, says official

Senior official involved in Baghdad talks says U.S. is pressuring Iran because it perceives it as a real threat to world security, not because of Israeli pressure.

 

“There are no gaps between the U.S. and Israel in anything related to talks between Iran and the six world powers over the future of Iran’s nuclear program,” a U.S. official told journalists during a briefing in Tel Aviv.

The U.S. official, who is intimately acquainted with the P5 + 1 talks which took place in Baghdad last week, asked to remain anonymous owing to the sensitive nature of the issue.

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