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Topic: Israeli strike on Iran

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February 28, 2013
11:37 pm

Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, speaks in December during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, D.C. (photo credit: AP/Ann Heisenfelt)

Resolution would promise US aid if Israel forced to hit Iran

If passed by Senate, non-binding motion would pledge military, economic assistance to Jewish state in war of self-defense

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 28, 2013
11:14 am

Avigdor Liberman, February 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Liberman: West ‘stands down’ as Iran ‘races’ toward bomb

Former FM also claims West Bank clashes are directed by the Palestinian leadership in lead-up to Obama’s visit to the region

By Aaron Kalman

February 5, 2013
3:45 am

Demonstrators protest against Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi prior to his speech at the German Council Of Foreign Relations, a think tank for foreign policy, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The German phrase on the poster reads: 'Comprehensive and immediate UN-Sanctions against the Mullahs in iran.' (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)

Iran’s nuclear standoff reaching tipping point

Ahead of another round of talks, neither Tehran nor world powers show any sign of backing down

January 30, 2013
11:14 am

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to the AJC Board of Governors in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 28, 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu hints Israel can’t destroy Iran nuke program

Israel can inflict ‘significant damage’ to Iranian facilities, but the US military is ‘perfectly’ capable of destroying them, PM says

By Gabe Fisher

January 13, 2013
12:24 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Olmert’s words ‘bizarre and irresponsible’

Prime minister defends military spending on Iran, which his predecessor termed a ‘harebrained adventure’

By Asher Zeiger

January 12, 2013
8:56 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on November 14, 2012. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Barak deny money was ‘wasted’ on Iran

Leadership duo respond to accusations by former PM Olmert, who claimed government spent NIS 11 billion on ‘harebrained’ projects to thwart Tehran’s nuclear drive

By Ron Friedman

January 12, 2013
2:32 am

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on December 9 (photo credit: Yossi Zelger/Flash90)

Olmert accuses PM of wasting billions on ‘harebrained adventures’

Former prime minister says Netanyahu spent NIS 11 billion on Iran-related defense projects that ‘won’t come to fruition’

By Ron Friedman

January 7, 2013
1:06 am

In this June 26, 2008 file photo, then-senator Chuck Hagel speaks on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC (photo credit: AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Israel not necessarily worried about Hagel nomination, top Israeli source indicates

‘The only question we have is about his policy on the Iranian question,’ senior official tells Times of Israel

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 3, 2013
6:48 am

Hezbollah leader sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, upon their arrival for a dinner in Damascus, Syria, February 25, 2010 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syria and Hezbollah won’t join the fight if Israel strikes Iran, top-level report predicts

Foreign Ministry says Assad can’t help Tehran for fear of losing power, Israel would launch massive ground operation in Lebanon if attacked

By Times of Israel staff

December 31, 2012
4:11 pm

Satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz (photo credit: NASA/Public domain)

Iran test-fires missiles near Strait of Hormuz

New Raad air defense system said to have 50-kilometer range

December 31, 2012
9:21 am

Baku, the capital of energy-rich Azerbaijan (photo credit: CC BY David Davidson/Flikr)

Azerbaijan won’t let Western powers launch attack on Iran from its territory, FM insists

Minister rejects ‘groundless and false reports,’ insists his country pursues an ‘independent, peaceful foreign policy’

By Gabe Fisher

December 20, 2012
1:59 pm

Former Middle East ambassador and Obama adviser Dennis Ross at an event at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem earlier this year (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Former US Mideast envoy says Iran showdown to take place in coming year

Dennis Ross also calls on Israel to only build in major settlement blocs to restore faith in a two-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

December 7, 2012
9:11 am

US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland last month (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

If all else fails, US will hit Iran in 2013, say former top advisers to Obama and Bush

At Washington Institute gala, Dennis Ross, Elliott Abrams and outgoing US ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey insist the president will strike next year if diplomacy doesn’t succeed