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Fast Forward Obama Plans Diplomatic Push on Iran Nukes
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he will renew efforts for a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s suspected attempt to build a nuclear weapon, but denied that any talks with Tehran were imminent. Obama told a news conference that reports that emerged before his re-election on Nov. 6 of impending U.S. talks with Iran were…
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Fast Forward U.N. Iran Nuclear Report a Mixed Bag
Iran is believed to have increased the number of centrifuges in an underground nuclear plant by nearly a third in three months, diplomats say, underlining the tough task facing major powers pressing Tehran to curb its atomic activity. But despite a major expansion of its capacity to refine uranium at the Fordow facility, buried deep…
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Opinion $64 Million Question on Iran
It was hardly surprising that Israeli diplomat Barukh Binah refused several times to discuss the nitty-gritty of plans to confront Iran over its nuclear program at a public forum at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly. Neither was the lack of optimism voiced by any of the three panelists that increased sanctions against…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Next War? Could Be Gaza, Not Iran or Syria
If Israel goes to war with any of its neighbours before this year ends it will be with Gaza not Syria, despite appearances. The Israeli army fired into Syria on Monday for the second day in a row, after a Syrian mortar round from fighting across the disengagement line hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Sunday’s…
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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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