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Iran Calls Nuclear Sanctions “Vain”
December 1, 2011The US and Canada have announced that new measures will be taken to target Iran’s nuclear program. A senior Iranian political official has said that the sanctions imposed on the Iranian nuclear program would be “in vain” despite Western authority … Israel’s News & Views Blog
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Senior Likud MK: Key Government Goal, Elimination of Iranian Nuclear Threat
October 16, 2011Thanks to an Israeli source pointing me to this provocative Facebook posting by senior Likud MK Carmel Shama HaCohen: At the beginning of the current government’s term three chief objectives were set: ending the economic crisis, returning Gilad Shalit, and eliminating the Iranian nuclear [program]. We’ve exited the economic crisis for some time, Shalit comes home [...]
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Iran’s Nuclear Program, Charging Ahead
June 8, 2011From my Bloomberg View column (read the whole thing, as they say):Stuxnet now appears to have been… Jeffrey Goldberg : The Atlantic
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Arad Exposed Secret U.S. Agreement to Jump-Start Israeli Civilian Nuclear Power Industry
May 19, 2011Yesterday, I reported a story from Yediot that claimed Uzi Arad had given a U.S. diplomat a copy of the secret Lindenstraus report on the second Lebanon war. Turns out, there were two accurate claims in the report–that it involved the U.S. and a secret report. But the rest was wrong. Today, a different story [...]
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ElBaradei vs. the Muslim Brotherhood Over the Bomb?
February 8, 2011Jared Bernstein:If (ElBaradei) is part of a new government that emerges, one hopes that his attitude towards nuclear proliferation will not change, though the Muslim Brotherhood–which is known to be hostile to Israel and which has in recent years called for Egypt to acquire a nuclear deterrent–could put new pressure on the government to pursue [...]
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Melman on Iran Assassinations: Mossad Did It
November 30, 2010Yossi Melman, one of Israel’s senior military correspondents, writes in The Independent that the Mossad is responsible for yesterday’s multiple hits on two Iranian nuclear scientists: Three events ‘
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The Saudis Are Neocons, And Other First Wikileaks Impressions
November 29, 20101. How does the United States Government store its secrets? In shoeboxes? 2. Quote of the year: “Ahmadinejad is Hitler.” This from Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed in July 2009. And then there is this very astute comment from the Crown Prince: “‘Any culture that is patient and focused enough to spend years [...]
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IAEA Inspectors: Stuxnet Mayve Shut Down Iranian Enrichment Program
November 23, 2010Based on interviews with unnamed IAEA inspectors, AP is claiming that virtually all the centrifuge arrays used in the Iranian uranium enrichment program have been temporarily shut down. The suspicion is that the Israeli Stuxnet attack has caused serious damage not just to Natanz, but to Bushehr as well, which was expected to come online [...]
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El Loco’s Nuke Push: A Problem US Needs to Face
November 2, 2010If something isn’t done to prevent it, we’ll likely be facing an emerging nuclear threat from President Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela sometime in the next 10 years. He vows that “nothing will stop us” from bringing “nuclear power” to Venezuela. Unfortunately, “nuclear power” is now a common coverup term for a nuclear-weapons program, such as we’re [...]
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Tony Blair: “Personally, I Think Israel Would Not Allow Iran to Get Nuclear Weapons”
October 19, 2010A very interesting quote embedded in a Barry Gewen piece on Iran’s nuclear program. Read the whole thing, but here are a couple of grafs:Tony Blair recently said in a telephone conversation, “personally, I think Israel would not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.” In March, Joseph Biden declared that “the United States is determined [...]
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Tony Blair: "Personally, I Think Israel Would Not Allow Iran to Get Nuclear Weapons"
October 15, 2010A very interesting quote embedded in a Barry Gewen piece on Iran’s nuclear program. Read the whole thing, but here are a couple of grafs:Tony Blair recently said in a telephone conversation, “personally, I think Israel would not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.” In March, Joseph Biden declared that “the United States is determined [...]
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The Existential Threat to the Entire World
October 7, 2010Jim Fallows, writer of that smash hit from the ’70s, “You’re So Vain, You Probably Think the Threat of Nuclear Obliteration is About You,” pushes back on Daniel Gordis’s argument that Israel faces a uniquely dire situation should Iran gain possession of nuclear weapons:(T)his is not a new, hypothetical, and Israeli-specific problem but a decades-old [...]
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Iran Confirms Stuxnet Damage to Nuclear Facilities
September 25, 2010The AP is reporting confirmation from Iranian sources that Stuxnet, which I’ve posted about here, has caused extensive damage with the country’s computer and industrial system: Iranian media reports say the country’s nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites in Iran and is capable of taking over [...]
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OBAMA CHANGES COURSE ON IRAN?
September 24, 2010Something ticked Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of. He blew his top at an end of a most successful charm offensive. Or, perhaps, he merely reverted to form by pulling the rug from under those who have been reporting that Iran signals interest in talks on nuclear program, diplomats say Why? For a year an a half Barack [...]
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Iran: Its Not Munich, 1938Its Cuba, 1962
September 10, 2010Bibi Netanyahu is fond of saying, regarding Iran, that it’s Munich and the year is 1938: what the west does now will determine whether Iran will get nuclear weapons and whether Israel’s existence will be endangered as a result. Capitulate and we will have another Holocaust. Resist Iran’s nuclear ambitions and we will stop the [...]