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The coffin of Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh is carried out of a mosque after a prayer in Selayang, on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 25, 2018 (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
May 5, 2018, 7:02 pm
Malaysian police claim to find guns, van used by assassins of Hamas drone expert
Authorities say gunmen used fake passports from Serbia and Montenegro to enter Malaysia and kill Fadi al-Batsh last month
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of a picture of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who he named as the head of Iran's nuclear weapons program, April 30, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)
May 4, 2018, 11:46 pm
TV: Israel may be keeping Iran nuke program chief alive, to track his activities
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, named by Netanyahu as head of Iranian program, would presumably have been on hit list, expert says; if he's still alive, there must be a reason
By TOI staff
Still from video of IDF soldiers singing in Persian, which went viral on Iranian social media on May 3, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)
May 4, 2018, 1:50 pm
Video of IDF soldiers singing Persian love song goes viral in Iran
IDF asks proud dad to take down clip of some 50 trainees in Intelligence Corps, but not before Iranian accounts repost the footage
By David Sedley
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations event in Jerusalem on February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 3, 2018, 2:54 pm
Lapid opposes US pullout of Iran nuclear deal
Opposition MK says Netanyahu is wrong to pressure Trump to exit accord unilaterally without European support
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Hassan Rouhani, left, speaks as he is accompanied by the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi on a visit to the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside the port city of Bushehr, southern Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno)
May 3, 2018, 5:40 am
Iran’s envoy to UK: Tehran ‘ready’ to scrap nuclear deal if US withdraws
Islamic Republic's ambassador slams Netanyahu's claims of covert military program, says 'no deal left' if Trump pulls out
By TOI staff and AFP
Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 6:39 pm
Lapid says PM seriously harmed national security with Iran revelations
Yesh Atid head: Netanyahu is making mistakes he would not have made in the past, such as televised presentation of smuggled nuclear archive
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 29, 2018. (Amit Shabi/Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 1:47 pm
Netanyahu said to tell ministers to keep quiet about Iran
Move comes two days after his dramatic televised presentation revealing Mossad's capture of Tehran nuclear weapons program archives
By TOI staff
Yossi Cohen, the head of the Mossad, is seen in a committee meeting at the Israeli parliament on December 8, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 12:09 pm
Israel’s Mossad spy agency shrouded in mystery and mystique
Netanyahu's dramatic display of materials about Iran's nuclear program, seized from Tehran, marked rare case of Israel going public about an operation of its top secret spy agency
By Aron Heller
Ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 11:56 am
Ex-Mossad chief says Netanyahu’s show on Iran had ‘nothing new’
Danny Yatom, also a former Labor lawmaker, urges US not to leave nuclear deal and fix it instead
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
A warehouse in Shorabad, south Tehran, where Mossad agents discovered and extracted tens of thousands of secret files pertaining to Iran's nuclear weapons program (Prime Minister's Office)
May 2, 2018, 4:04 am
Mossad agents snuck nuclear files out of Iran with authorities ‘on their tails’
TV reports say Israel utilized expansive operational infrastructure on Iranian soil; PM's exposé said aimed chiefly at IAEA; unconfirmed report of mass arrests in Iran after breach
By TOI staff
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, is welcomed by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on March 16, 2015 at the European External Action service headquarters in Brussels.(photo credit: AFP/ EMMANUEL DUNAND)
May 2, 2018, 1:19 am
Very existence of Iran’s secret nuclear archive may be a violation of nuke deal
Israel's exposé of Iran's own nuke documentation shows why 2015 pact was so important, say defenders of the deal. Jerusalem's retort: If the deal worked, the archive wouldn't exist
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem, on April 29, 2018. (Amit Shabi/POOL)
May 1, 2018, 11:23 pm
Ministers said to complain PM used them as ‘props’ in his Iran nuke PR campaign
Unnamed lawmakers tell Hadashot TV they were hurriedly called to a briefing designed not for debate but to 'neutralize any criticism' and to 'stir up public tension'
By Sue Surkes and Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)
May 1, 2018, 4:34 pm
Nuclear lies: 6 things to know for May 1
The prime minister drops a figurative bomb on Iran by revealing top-secret incriminating documents, but it's not clear whether the US will pull out of its deal with Tehran
By Adiv Sterman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel he says proves Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
May 1, 2018, 10:08 am
Mossad’s stunning op in Iran overshadows the actual intelligence it stole
Most of the info revealed during Netanyahu's dramatic presentation was already public knowledge, and was key in shaping the nuclear deal's inspections regime
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)
May 1, 2018, 4:33 am
Mossad stole Iran’s nuke archive and smuggled it back to Israel the same night
Senior Israeli official tells New York Times the spy agency discovered the warehouse in 2016 and had it under surveillance; Trump briefed on raid by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen
By TOI staff
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