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Topic: Ahmad Vahidi

May 9, 2013
10:57 pm

A government drone captured by Sudanese rebels was reportedly manufactured in Iran (photo credit: Courtesy)

Iran says it has built new drone

Tehran defense minister says his country constructed a radar-evading UAV that can do surveillance and fire on enemy targets

April 18, 2013
4:23 pm

Iranian Minister of Defense Ahmad Vahidi (photo credit: AP)

Iran says it will ‘raze Tel Aviv, Haifa’ if attacked

After IDF chief says Israel will act as and when necessary, leaders in Tehran shrug off ‘threats by the Zionist regime’

March 20, 2013
9:40 am

Buenos Aires Jews mark embassy bombing

Turnout higher than usual because of controversial Iranian involvement in of attack

March 15, 2013
10:25 pm

Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timerman (photo credit: CC-BY, MRECIC ARG, Flickr)

Interpol won’t lift warrants for 6 Iranians in AMIA bombing

Arrest orders to remain active despite Tehran’s participation in probe of 1994 terror attack

February 6, 2013
10:22 am

Israeli ambassador upbraided in Argentina

Foreign minister reportedly says that ‘Israel has no right to ask for explanations’ over joint probe with Iran into 1994 bombing of Jewish center

By Gabe Fisher

February 2, 2013
10:28 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to an unidentified pilot during a ceremony to unveil Iran's newest fighter jet, the Qaher-313, in Tehran, Iran, earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Younes Khani)

Ahmadinejad unveils new homemade fighter jet

Iran’s defense minister touts Qaher-313 as a radar-evading plane that can carry weapons and fly at low altitudes

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 29, 2013
2:45 pm

Ahmad Hashemi, center, translates at a meeting between Iranian Vice President Mohammed Reza Rahimi and a minister from Zimbabwe, June 25, 2011 (photo credit: Iranian presidential website)

Defected translator sheds new light on Iran’s global reach

Tehran challenging US presence in East Africa and bypassing sanctions in the Indian subcontinent, says Ahmad Hashemi

By Elhanan Miller

December 25, 2012
6:52 pm

Iranian navy frigate IS Alvand passing through Egypt's Suez Canal in February 2011 (photo credit: AP file photo)

Iran says it will test new subs, drones in upcoming war games

Tehran stepping up its presence along international shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz

By Greg Tepper

December 22, 2012
10:03 am

Patriot missile batteries harm Turkey’s security, Iranian minister says

Ahmad Vahidi says Syrian army strong and capable of contending with Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

October 30, 2012
5:40 pm

Syrian residents walk on a street among the debris of buildings damaged by heavy shelling in the southeast of Aleppo City, on October 27, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Iranian official accuses Israel of meddling in Africa

Elsehwere, diplomats debate whether the fighting in Syria is ‘civil’ or ‘a war of annihilation’

By Elhanan Miller

October 29, 2012
11:51 am

Israeli Army vehicles and helicopters are seen in an open area as they search for the remains of a drone in the Negev southern Israel on October 6, 2012. (photo credit: AP)

Tehran claims it received photographs of restricted Israeli areas from downed drone

Israel has dismissed Iran’s repeated assertions that UAV was able transmit pictures in real time

By Asher Zeiger

October 29, 2012
1:20 am

The AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the site of a deadly terrorist attack in 1994. (photo credit: CCBY andysternberg/Flickr)

Iran, Argentina set to meet in Geneva over 1994 Jewish center bombing

Buenos Aires demands the extradition of 8 terror suspects, including Iranian defense minister and former president

By JTA and Philip Podolsky

October 28, 2012
6:16 pm

Chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Amir Ali Hajizadeh (left), near the captured US RQ-170 Sentinel drone in April 2012. (photo credit: AP/Sepahnews)

Israel dismisses Iran’s boast that it has drones more advanced than the one it sent this month

UAV experts here also reject Tehran’s claim to have copied US technology

By Asher Zeiger and Mitch Ginsburg

October 14, 2012
1:38 pm

Hezbollah drone proves Tehran’s capabilities, says Iranian defense minister

Ahmad Vahidi praises Hezbollah actions, claims the group has every right to violate Israeli airspace

By Times of Israel staff and AP

September 29, 2012
5:04 pm

Iranian Defense Minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi (left), pictured with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a 2010 army parade (photo credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian defense minister: Israel should set red lines for itself

In response to PM’s UN address, Vahidi says Jerusalem has ‘dozens of nuclear warheads’ and must be ‘stopped’

By Yifa Yaakov and Ilan Ben Zion

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