JERUSALEM — Israel said last week’s nuclear test by North Korea “must be met with a swift response by the international community.” “Israel condemns North Korea’s nuclear test, and joins the international community in expressing concern of the danger that this act poses to regional stability and international peace and security,” the Ministry of Foreign…
An international deal capping Iran’s nuclear work set the program back by just six weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of using the hiatus to hone technologies with bomb-making potential. Iran this month began implementing the interim nuclear accord it clinched with world powers in Geneva in November, and which…
Iran and six world powers signed the agreement implementing a plan that temporarily freezes Iran’s nuclear production. The Joint Plan of Action, which was finalized and approved on Sunday, will go into effect on Jan. 20. Under the agreement, which was completed in November, Iran will freeze most of its nuclear enrichment capability, including not…
WASHINGTON – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a television interview on Wednesday that his government would never develop nuclear weapons and that he has full authority to negotiate a nuclear deal with the West, NBC News reported. Speaking to the U.S. network at his presidential compound in Tehran, Iran’s new president also said the…
Israel stopped producing nuclear warheads nine years ago when it reached a stockpile of 80, according to a new report. The September/October issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, released over the weekend, calculated that some 125,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945, about 97 percent of them by the United States and…
In answers prepared for his Senate hearings, Chuck Hagel says he is committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, even if this means military action. “With the ever present threat of Iran, the next Secretary of Defense must be vigilant in pursuing the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and…
How do you say “freebie” in Hebrew? This was the question facing the daily newspaper Haaretz when called upon to translate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remark, delivered in Jerusalem in English on April 15, that the United States and Europe had given Iran a “freebie” by deferring further negotiations over its nuclear program until late…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to CNN: Sanctions “better work soon” — so far they “haven’t rolled back the Iranian program — or even stopped it — by one iota.” IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz to Haaretz: The sanctions are beginning to bear fruit … CNN to Netanyahu: How do you know what they’re doing…
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