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Fast Forward Window for Iran Deal Opens After Obama Win
The reelection of President Barack Obama could create an opportunity for new negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme as sanctions pile economic pressure on its theocratic leaders. With no more elections to fight, Obama, who has so far resisted calls in the United States and Israel for military action against Iran, appears free to…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Nuclear Slowdown Puts Off War For Now
A slowdown in Iran’s accumulation of its most sensitive nuclear material may have helped put off the threat of a new Middle East war for now, but Tehran’s expanding uranium-enrichment capacity suggests any relief could be short-lived. By dedicating a big part of its higher-enriched uranium to make civilian reactor fuel, Iran is removing it…
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Fast Forward Israeli Army Resisted March to Iran War
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered Israeli defence chiefs in 2010 to prepare for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities but were rebuffed, a television report said. Excerpts released on Monday of an Israeli Channel 2 documentary said the armed forces’ chief of staff at the time, Gabi Ashkenazi, and Mossad…
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Opinion Is Bibi Obsessed With Iran?
Everyone said that here in Israel we’d see an election that is all a about Iran, and today the largest opposition party started to set that agenda. “Netanyahu is entangling us,” Kadima’s newly-revealed election slogan claims. The Hebrew word “entangling” has the strong connotation of endangerment. Kadima’s claim is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head…
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News Argentina Calls Iran Bombing Talks ‘Positive’
Three days of negotiations between Argentina and Iran over the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center have been “very positive,” Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timerman announced. The statement came Wednesday at the Government House after three days of meetings between authorities of both nations at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. “ “The…
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Fast Forward Iran Steps Back From Bomb: Ehud Barak
Iran has drawn back from its ambitions to build a nuclear weapon, Israel’s defence minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday, while warning that his country may still have to decide next year whether to launch a military strike against it. Tehran denies its nuclear work has any military dimensions but governments in Europe and…
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News Disenchanted Jewish Voters, Eli Valley’s Science Experiment
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Nathan Guttman to talk about their interviews with Jewish voters in swing states and the prevailing sense of disenchantment with the presidential election. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman drops by with a few words for undecided voters. Finally, Eli Valley calls in to discuss his…
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Fast Forward German Jews Demand Cancellation of Iran Trip
Two U.S. senators and the head of Germany’s Jewish community urged German deputies from the Bundestag’s German-Iranian parliamentary group to cancel a trip to Iran. The Oct. 27 visit was announced last month by the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Iran as a means to “build bridges” with that country. “At this particularly sensitive…
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