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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman on October 26, 2018 (Courtesy)
October 26, 2018, 10:23 pm
Does Iran lurk behind Netanyahu’s historic visit to Oman?
Amid speculation Muscat may take a greater role in Israel-Palestinian peace talks, analyst say it’s more likely Jerusalem is using the Gulf nation to send a message to Iran
By TOI staff and AP
A demonstrator dressed as Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) with blood on his hands protests outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2018, demanding justice for missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Jim Watson/AFP)
October 23, 2018, 4:57 pm
Khashoggi disliked Israel, but his brutal murder puts Jerusalem in tough spot
The Jewish state needs a strong Saudi Arabia to help confront Iran, but does not want to be seen as a mouthpiece for a regime that kills journalists
By Raphael Ahren
A computer simulation released by the Russian Defense Ministry September 23, 2018, purports to show Israeli jets near a Russian reconnaissance plane, in red, off Syria's coast before it was accidentally shot down by Syria forces responding to the Israeli air strike. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
October 10, 2018, 3:44 pm
On edge about Iran
Diplomatic measures and economic sanctions are not working; the US and Israel need to find new responses to Iranian aggression
By Zaki Shalom and Jacob Aaron Collier
This file photo provided on Friday October 20, 2017 by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Iran's army chief of staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, left, looks into binoculars as he visits and other senior officers from the Iranian military on a front line in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)
October 6, 2018, 11:04 am
Russia seeking communications channel between Israel, Iran in Syria — report
Government source tells Arabic daily Moscow could serve as mediator to alleviate regional tensions
By TOI staff
IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami (YouTube screen capture)
October 5, 2018, 5:11 pm
Top Iran Revolutionary guard warns Netanyahu will have to ‘flee into the sea’
‘I tell the prime minister of the Zionist regime to practice swimming in the Mediterranean,’ says deputy commander
By AFP and TOI staff
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani,in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
September 27, 2018, 4:29 pm
Iran warns Israel will face ‘sorrow, penitence’ for striking its forces in Syria
Tehran’s national security official’s comments come after IDF targeted arms depots in strike that led to Syria downing Russian plane, crisis in Israel-Russia ties
By AP and TOI staff
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres(not shown) in New York on September 26, 2018, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. ( AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERT)
September 27, 2018, 12:41 am
Rouhani says Iran will stay in Syria, wants to avoid conflict with US
Iranian president says Tehran will keep its forces in Syria for as long as Assad wants them there; Israel repeatedly vows not to let Iran entrench itself on the northern border
By Agencies and TOI staff
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2018 (screenshot: YouTube)
September 25, 2018, 10:40 pm
Iran’s president says Israel ‘the most daunting threat’ to world peace
Rouhani accuses Trump administration of plotting regime change in Tehran, calls US sanctions ‘economic terrorism’
By TOI staff
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles while meeting with North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho in the capital Tehran on August 7, 2018. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
September 9, 2018, 7:07 pm
Iran FM sends all Jews Rosh Hashanah wishes for a year of ‘peace and harmony’
Palestinian PM, Russia’s Putin, Turkey’s Erdogan and Trump among leaders sending out greetings for the New Year; London mayor vows to protect city’s Jews
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A Qeshm Fars Air cargo plane (Wikimedia commons)
September 4, 2018, 1:31 am
Iran using civilian flights to smuggle arms to Hezbollah – report
Western intelligence officials tell Fox News they tracked two unscheduled flights from Tehran to Beirut this month, believed to be carrying parts for Iranian weapons factories
By TOI staff
Gonen Segev, a former Israeli government minister indicted on suspicion of spying for Iran, is seen in the District Court in Jerusalem, July 5, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)
August 29, 2018, 10:45 am
In first, Iran seems to confirm arrested Israeli ex-minister was its spy
‘We brought under our control a member of a cabinet of a powerful country,’ Tehran says, after earlier denying Israeli charges against Gonen Segev
By Michael Bachner
Destroyed houses in Khorramshahr, Iran during the Iran-Iraq War (YouTube screenshot)
August 18, 2018, 9:26 pm
Tehran museum lionizes 1980s war in which Iran took on ‘whole world’
State-of-the-art facility glorifies nation’s steadfastness in face of adversity during Iran-Iraq War, makes no mention of Israel’s military support against Saddam
By Marc Jourdier
In this June 15, 2018 photo, Iran's Alireza Jahanbakhsh celebrates his team's victory after the group B match between Morocco and Iran at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the St. Petersburg Stadium in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
August 1, 2018, 2:48 pm
2 Israelis and an Iranian go for goal together in English top-flight soccer
Iran’s Alireza Jahanbakhsh joins Brighton, and turns out alongside Israeli teammates Tomer Hemed (Jewish) and Beram Kayal (Muslim); in 2015, he refused to play vs Maccabi Tel Aviv
By TOI staff
An Iranian woman walks past a mural on the wall of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran, November 9, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
July 31, 2018, 11:32 pm
Israel says it’s unfazed by specter of US-Iran summit, but anxiety brews
One minister sees ‘opportunity’ in Trump’s overture and says Washington and Tehran may already be talking, but others are uneasy after what happened with North Korea
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 29, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool Yedioth Ahronoth/Flash90)
July 30, 2018, 1:30 am
In latest English-language video, Netanyahu asks the world to help Iran
Prime minister relates fictional story of teen struggling with the national deprivations in Tehran due to regime spending billions on war
By TOI staff
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