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Fast Forward Israel Disappointed By Argentinean/Iran Meeting
Israel expressed “disappointment” over the Argentinean decision to accept an Iranian invitation to bilateral talks. “The Government of Israel received with great disappointment the news about the Argentine acceptance of a meeting with the Islamic Republic of Iran on a Foreign Ministers level. Iran does not come with clean hands to this dialogue about global…
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Fast Forward UN Criticizes "Shrill War Talk" in Iran Nuclear Dispute
The United Nations on Friday called on all sides in the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program to tone down “shrill war talk,” the first U.N. reaction to clashes at the world body this week between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It’s obvious that harsh tones and rhetoric are not going…
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Fast Forward Israelis See No Iran War This Year
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.N. speech about Iranian nuclear advances has dampened speculation in Israel that he could order a war this year. Analysing Thursday’s address in which Netanyahu literally drew a “red line” on a cartoon bomb to show how close Iran was to building nuclear weaponry, commentators saw his deadline for any military…
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Fast Forward Bibi Plans To Detail ‘Red Line’ at U.N.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will set out a “clear red line” for Iran’s disputed nuclear drive in his U.N. speech on Thursday, an Israeli official said, adding that the plan could be pursued together with the United States. Netanyahu faces the world body a day after U.S. President Barack Obama disappointed some Israelis by…
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News Iran Pushes Ahead With Nuclear Reactor
Iran appears to be making headway in building a research reactor that could yield potential nuclear weapon material, adding to Western concerns about Tehran’s atomic aims, experts and diplomats say. The West’s worries about Iran are focused largely on underground uranium enrichment plants at Natanz and Fordow, but it is also pressing ahead with construction…
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News Seeking To Cut Iran’s Nuclear Team Off Web
A group of activists are leading a drive to ban Iranian companies involved in the country’s nuclear program from accessing the Internet — a move that would essentially cut them off from the global information network. The activists, from a bipartisan group called United Against Nuclear Iran, have appealed to the international providers of Internet…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Vows Strong Response to Ahmadinejad
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday promised a tough response at the United Nations to the latest verbal attacks on Israeli by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said he was determined to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons. Before boarding a flight to New York to address the annual U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu issued an open…
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Fast Forward Ahmadinejad Rants Against ‘Uncivilized Zionists’
Iran’s president said on Wednesday his country was under constant threat of military action from “uncivilized Zionists” and called for a new world order not dominated by Western powers in the service of “the devil.” In his eighth address to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad painted a gloomy picture…
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