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Culture The Iranian Revolution Still Haunts Its Jewish Survivors
I still remember the moment, 38 years ago, in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, when I overheard my mom tell my dad in a hushed voice that Dr. Parsa had just been executed. My mom’s shoulders were shaking and her voice was low. She said that the revolutionary forces had put Dr. Parsa in…
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Community Will El Al Ever Fly To Tehran Again?
In 2018, Israel celebrated the 70th anniversary of its independence. In 2019, Iran will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic. In 1897, at the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Theodor Hertzl predicted that a Jewish state would exist in fifty years. In 2018, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic…
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Fast Forward Republican House Armed Service Chair Warns Trump Against Leaving Iran Deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican leader of the House Armed Services Committee said President Trump should not walk away from the Iran nuclear deal. President Trump is facing a May 12 deadline on whether to re-impose sanctions against Iran. Texas Congressman Mac Thornberry said on Fox News Sunday it would be a mistake for Trump…
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Opinion Trump Is Going to Nix the Iran Deal. Now What?
As a proud veteran of the Obama Administration, I don’t think it surprises anyone that I am a supporter of the Iran nuclear deal. It was not a perfect deal — there was no such thing — but it removed key materials and infrastructure from Iran’s possession and imposed an intrusive monitoring regime, ensuring that…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Speech Proves What We Knew All Along — And That Changes Everything
Make no mistake: the Iranian archives that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently presented to the world are very important. Maybe the information we have seen so far is not new, although there is a multitude of documents that we might still hear about. But it comes straight from the horse’s mouth. These are Iranian…
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Fast Forward Mossad Stole Iran’s Nuclear Files And Smuggled Them Back To Israel In One Night
(JTA) — Israel’s Mossad intelligence service broke into the anonymous Tehran building that housed Iran’s secret nuclear files and smuggled half a ton of documents and compact discs back to Israel the same night. The New York Times in an article posted on its website Monday night quoted a senior Israeli official who spoke on…
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Fast Forward Pompeo: U.S. Knew About Israel’s Stolen Iranian Nuclear Files For ‘A While’
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged that the United States had known about Israel’s cache of stolen documents about Iran’s nuclear program “for a while.” Pompeo told reporters on the airplane traveling from Jordan to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington that he had been aware of the existence of the documents,…
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Opinion Actually, Netanyahu’s Speech Was A Warning — And Not For Trump
Israeli PM Netanyahu’s cartoonish presentation to the world on Monday of Iran’s stolen nuclear archive predictably aroused a broad spectrum of reaction. Much of the scorn heaped on the presentation is technically correct. There was nothing really new here. There was no smoking gun of Iranian violation of the JCPOA nuclear deal. And this was…
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