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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Wary Tone on Iran After Barack Obama’s Speech Gives Mixed Signals
The good news for Israel in President Obama’s speech at the United Nations was his insistence that any steps Iran might take to solve the standoff over its nuclear program must be transparent and verifiable. The bad news was that Obama wasn’t clear about what those steps should be. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in…
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Fast Forward Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Wants a Nuclear Deal Within Three Months
Iranian President Hassan Rohani said in a newspaper interview on Wednesday that he wants to reach a deal with world powers on Tehran’s nuclear program in three to six months. “The only way forward is for a timeline to be inserted into the negotiations that’s short,” Rohani was quoted as telling the Washington Post, through…
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Fast Forward Iran Leader Hassan Rouhani Questions ‘Dimensions’ of Holocaust Crime Against Jews
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the Holocaust as a crime against the Jews but refused to comment on its scope. “I have said before that I am not a historian, and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust it is the historians that should reflect on it,” Rouhani told CNN…
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Opinion How Benjamin Netanyahu’s Scowl Campaign Hurts Israel
As the world’s leaders converge in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is encountering an unusual confluence of activities and initiatives concerning nonconventional weaponry in the Middle East. Some of this activity appears to be working to Israel’s benefit, some of it against Israel. Netanyahu is working overtime…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Dismisses Iranian President Rouhani’s UN Speech as ‘Hypocrisy’
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s U.N. address was “cynical” and Tehran was stalling for time in order to develop nuclear arms. “It was a cynical speech full of hypocrisy,” Netanyahu said in a statement after Rouhani addressed the annual gathering of world leaders at the…
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Fast Forward Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Insists on Right to Enrich Uranium
WASHINGTON — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged to prove that his country’s nuclear program is peaceful but insisted on Iran’s right to enrich uranium. Rouhani, elected this summer and speaking Tuesday for the first time as president to the U.N. General Assembly, said the Iranian ethos and Muslim precepts demanded that “we remove all concerns…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Won’t Meet Iran’s Hassan Rouhani
A potential encounter at the United Nations between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani failed to take place on Tuesday as the Iranians indicated it was too complicated, senior Obama administration officials said. “There will be no meeting,” one official said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters that…
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Fast Forward Israel Hopes Barack Obama Avoids Handshake With Iran Leader Hassan Rouhani
Israel voiced concern on Tuesday over a potential meeting of the U.S. and Iranian presidents, saying Tehran’s conciliatory overtures to world powers masked an acceleration of its disputed nuclear programme. An official Israeli assessment said Iran now had centrifuges for quickly turning low-enriched uranium into bomb fuel, putting it on a fast track to atomic…
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