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IAEA finds uranium traces linked to target of Israel’s 2007 Syrian nuclear strike

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:53:47 +0000

UN agency has long suspected nuclear activity at destroyed Deir Ezzor site, and renewed its inspections this year under new Syrian regime

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IAEA chief: Syria to give inspectors immediate access to suspected former nuclear sites

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:27:59 +0000

UN watchdog's head Rafael Grossi says officials will look at 4 locations, including Deir Ezzor facility Israel bombed in 2007; says open to Damascus pursuing non-weapon program

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How Israel nearly failed to spot Syria’s nuclear reactor, from the man who found it

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 12:06:37 +0000

Amnon Sofrin, ex-head of Mossad intelligence, recalls a misguided search, an eventual realization, and the moment he told the PM that Israel faced an immediate existential threat

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Olmert says Iran Natanz bomb could have been planted 10-15 years ago

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:47:46 +0000

Former prime minister denies any direct knowledge of operation, pans Netanyahu's 'smug bragging' amid spate of leaks crediting Mossad spy agency for blast at nuke plant

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The president who crossed Iran: Why Carlos Menem, dead at 90, isn’t old news

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:05:14 +0000

Decades ago, Argentina's president found himself mired in a deadly sequence of interactions with Iran, as the regime pressed relentlessly for the bomb; if only that were history

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Air Force marks planes to commemorate bombing Syria reactor in 2007

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:35:26 +0000

At Hatzerim Air Base ceremony, stickers with the operation's symbol placed on F-15i and F-16i jets that destroyed facility in Deir el-Zour

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North Korea offered Israel a halt to its missile sales to Iran for $1b — report

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:34:53 +0000

According to a new book by a Pyongyang defector, Israel refused the 1999 proposal, suggested sending aid instead

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MKs warned about Syria’s nuke plans years before 2007 reactor strike – report

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 03:12:55 +0000

Committee headed by Yuval Steinitz sent PM Sharon a memo in 2004 saying that Damascus was working on a nuclear program

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Livni: Ehud Olmert ‘unfit’ to return to politics

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:28:17 +0000

Zionist Union MK, who served under subsequently jailed prime minister, says Israel must be led by 'untarnished people'

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Decade after clandestine Syria strike, revelation sparks a war for credit

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 03:09:00 +0000

Former leaders snipe at each other over who said what in lead-up to Israel's bombing of Assad's nuclear facility in 2007, while ex-spies blame each other for failing to spot danger

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As Israel fetes 2007 strike on Syria nuclear reactor, is Assad building another?

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:30:52 +0000

A US think tank revisits claims that the regime is constructing an underground facility, finding worrying questions but no real answers

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Barak says Olmert was ‘never really prime minister,’ likens him to Kevin Spacey

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:28:27 +0000

Olmert 'played the role very well,' just like Spacey 'played the president exceptionally well' in House of Cards, says Barak. 'That didn't make him president'

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Netanyahu: Syrian reactor raid shows Israel won’t let its enemies get nukes

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:06:03 +0000

PM hails 2007 strike, doesn't mention Tehran, but intelligence minister sends direct 'message to Iran': We won't let anybody who threatens to destroy Israel get nuclear capability

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Defense minister regrets releasing details of attack on Syrian nuclear reactor

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:29:51 +0000

Liberman condemns public spat between former military intelligence and Mossad chiefs over who uncovered intel on reactor

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Blast from the past: 8 things to know for March 21

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:05:59 +0000

With the open secret now out, coverage looks at details of the 2007 raid on a Syrian nuclear reactor, the intel failures leading up to it and why it was kept under wraps until now

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