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Fast Forward U.S. Spies Hacked Israeli Air Force – New Snowden Revelations
JERUSALEM – The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel’s air force in a hacking operation dating back to 1998, according to documents attributed to leaks by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. Israel voiced disappointment at the disclosures, which were published on Friday in three media outlets and…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Top Ayatollah Denies Holocaust — Again — on Remembrance Day
Iran’s supreme leader released a video on his official website questioning the authenticity of the Holocaust on the same day the world observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The video titled “Are the Dark Ages Over” was uploaded to the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday. The nearly 3-minute video begins with images of killed…
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Fast Forward French Jews Slam Iran President’s Visit on Holocaust Remembrance Day
French Jews protested against the arrival to Paris of Iran’s president, saying it was particularly unacceptable because it fell on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Hassan Rouhani, who was supposed to visit France in November but postponed his arrival because of terrorist attacks that killed 130 in Paris that month, landed in the French capital on…
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Opinion Israel’s Top General Praises Iran Deal as ‘Strategic Turning Point’ in Slap at Bibi
Remember the nuclear agreement between Iran and the West? You know — the one that Benjamin Netanyahu insisted was the biggest danger to Israel and the Jews since time immemorial? Well, Israel’s military chief of staff told a prestigious defense conference last week that far from being a mortal threat, the deal has actually removed…
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Fast Forward U.S.-Bound Iranian Couple Arrested Carrying Forged Israeli Passports
An Iranian couple was arrested while trying to board a British Airways flight in India because they were carrying forged Israeli passports. The couple, who tried to board the flight on Thursday at Chennai Airport, also carried their original Iranian passports, the New Indian Express reported on Saturday. The couple, who met and married while…
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Fast Forward Robert Levinson’s ‘Devastated’ Family Demands Answers on Fate
The family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran eight years ago, said on Tuesday it was “desperate for answers” on his whereabouts and expressed frustration at the information it had received from the Obama administration. Levinson, who disappeared while visiting Iran’s Kish Island in 2007, was not among the five…
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Opinion Will Iran Really Change After Nuclear Deal? Looming Vote and Economy Will Tell Tale.
When people ask me where U.S.-Iran relations are headed following the initial implementation by both sides of the joint nuclear agreement, my thoughts turn not to big, world-moving possibilities but to something actually quite small: my purchase last July of a plane ticket from Tehran to the provincial city of Shiraz. Thanks to the international…
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Fast Forward Argentina President Meets With Slain AMIA Prosecutor’s Daughters
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentinian President Mauricio Macri met with the daughters of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a year after the lawman was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Nisman’s daughters, Iara and Kala, went to Macri’s personal weekend house, called Los Abrojos. Sunday’s meeting with Macri is…
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