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Topic: US strike on Iran

May 10, 2013
6:00 am

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Washington Institute for Near East policy on Thursday. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video)

Hagel: Despite shrinking Mideast footprint, US can stop Iran

US Defense Secretary insists region remains ‘top defense priority’ for Obama administration, and that ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 3, 2013
12:43 pm

A satellite image of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment facility (photo credit: AP/DigitalGlobe)

US bulks up ‘bunker buster’ to combat Iran threat

To persuade Israel away from a unilateral attack on the Fordo nuclear complex, America stresses its upgraded military capabilities

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 22, 2013
12:42 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listening as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in Washington in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

‘Netanyahu-Obama relationship must be healed’

US Jewish leader: Obama’s reported statement about Israel’s ‘best interests’ was ‘payback’ for Netanyahu’s alleged support for Romney

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 7, 2013
2:56 am

Then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Sen. Chuck Hagel tour the citadel in Amman, Jordan, in July 2008. (photo credit: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Hagel’s personal relationship with Obama strengthens nomination

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says president’s pick would be the ‘most antagonistic secretary of defense towards Israel in our nation’s history’

By Lolita C. Baldor

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 11, 2012
10:10 pm

US President Barack Obama (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama planning direct talks with Iran; US will strike in 4-5 months if they don’t bear fruit, Israeli TV report says

Channel 10 News says US president keeping Israel out of the loop, holds Netanyahu personally responsible for leaks from UN reports

By Aaron Kalman

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

By Haviv Rettig Gur

October 5, 2012
8:51 am

Henry Kissinger (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Kissinger: Strike on Iran is an American decision

Former secretary of state, knocking Israel, says US cannot ‘subcontract’ the right to go to war

By Yoel Goldman

October 3, 2012
6:26 pm

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., from the 2nd Congressional District. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Visiting US congressman: Israel must not place faith in Obama to thwart Iran’s nuclear drive

Breaking with the dictum that politics stop at the water’s edge, Republican Trent Franks warns that if Israel doesn’t stop Iran a reelected Obama would let Iran get the bomb

By Raphael Ahren

September 29, 2012
12:44 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from left, visits a nuclear research facility in Tehran in February (photo credit: AP/Iranian President's Office)

How to help Iran build a bomb

From the web Analysis: An attack on the Islamic Republic could actually hasten development of a nuclear weapon, New York Times says

September 17, 2012
1:57 pm

Former US envoy to Israel Martin Indyk (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US and Iran may be at war in 2013, predicts former US envoy to Israel

Martin Indyk: If a negotiated solution on Iran cannot be achieved in the next six months, ‘we’re going to have a military confrontation’

By Michal Shmulovich

September 4, 2012
2:30 pm

Michael Hayden during his tenure as CIA head (photo credit CC BY CIA/Wikipedia)

Ex-CIA head urges Israel to wait a year or two to decide on Iran strike

Romney adviser Michael Hayden tells Haaretz he doubts IAF can disable nuclear program without US help

By Gabe Fisher

August 1, 2012
2:26 pm

Israeli Defense minister Ehud Barak, left, and US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday Aug. 1 (photo credit: AP/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Panetta: US will use ‘all options,’ including military force, to stop Iran

Defense Minister Ehud Barak says chances are ‘extremely low’ that sanctions will force Iran to give up its quest for nuclear weapons