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Osirak
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April 16, 2023, 9:37 pm
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September 25, 2021, 12:23 pm
Hundreds of Iraqi notables call to join Abraham Accords, make peace with Israel
At Erbil conference, participants also urge rebuilding ties with the country’s dispossessed Jewish diaspora; normalization remains a crime under Iraqi law
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June 22, 2021, 8:47 pm
40 years after Iraq reactor raid, IDF reveals Ilan Ramon’s fears, intel sketches
Archive publishes papers relating to 1981 Osirak strike and video of famed pilot saying that mother’s Holocaust experiences inspired him despite the danger
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June 10, 2019, 2:32 am
38 years later, pilots recall how Iran inadvertently enabled Osiraq reactor raid
Surviving participants in Israeli airstrike that destroyed Saddam’s nuclear site gather to retrace mission that ‘remade the Middle East’
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January 6, 2019, 9:47 pm
Three Iraqi delegations said to make unprecedented Israel visits, meet officials
TV report says secret taboo-busting trips arranged with goal of building basis for future ties; delegates tour Yad Vashem, meet academics, discuss Iraqi Jewish heritage
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March 21, 2018, 5:15 pm
From Osirak to Iran scientists: Other nuclear-related attacks linked to Israel
Aside from destruction of Syrian and Iraqi reactors, covert assassinations and computer viruses have also been attributed to the Jewish state
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September 24, 2017, 3:06 am
Iraq says it wants world’s help to build nuclear reactor
Over 35 years after Israeli strike on Osirak, oil-rich country still partially held by IS says it has rights to nuclear power under NonProliferation Treaty
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AP
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June 15, 2016, 11:49 am
Iraq says it’ll sue Israel for bombing Saddam’s nuclear reactor in 1981
Official demands activation of a UN resolution that calls on Jerusalem to compensate Baghdad for strike
By
Dov Lieber
June 7, 2016, 1:31 pm
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A pilot reminisces
Watch the video, read the transcript of why the raid on Iraq’s nuclear reactor 35 years ago was worth the risk
June 4, 2016, 6:34 am
35 years on, IAF pilots recall daring mission to bomb Saddam’s nuke reactor
Airmen divulge use of inside intel from Osirak, and how they ribbed rookie flier Ilan Ramon — the last and most vulnerable man in the formation of eight jets
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ToI Staff
October 28, 2015, 10:30 am
Former Iran leader said to admit country pursued nukes
Ex-president Rafsanjani reportedly says he and Khamenei began program to create deterrent during war with Iraq
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ToI Staff
August 24, 2015, 2:01 am
Iran is laughing at leaky Israel, says Liberman after new Barak tapes aired
While bashing former defense minister, Yisrael Beytenu leader also takes aim at PM for failing to tackle Iran effectively
By
ToI Staff
April 23, 2015, 11:06 pm
Air force chief can ‘get job done’ if order comes to hit Iran
Israel has invested ‘immense sums’ over past decade building the capacity to hit Iran’s nuclear facilities, TV report says
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ToI Staff
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