Tag: Iran
Israel’s Security Cabinet meets following killing of Hamas, Hezbollah leaders
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Israel’s Security Cabinet on Wednesday afternoon following the targeted killing of Hezbollah’s No. 2 in Beirut and the killing, allegedly by the Jewish state, of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh...
US sanctions Iranian and Chinese people and entities tied to Iranian arms programs
The United States imposed new sanctions on seven entities and five individuals in Iran and China—including Hong Kong—that Washington says helped facilitate Tehran’s ballistic missile and drone programs.
“Today’s action exposes additional key front companies...
Madness, sanity, nuclear war and EMP in the Middle East
"Into the eternal gloom, into fire, into ice.”Dante, Inferno
As matters stand presently, it would not be in Iran's interest to use NNEMP weapons. This is because Israel could mount a higher level EMP (an NEMP) retaliation....
Iran deploys deceptively edited clip of 2017 Trump-Netanyahu meeting
The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) published an eight-second video on social media with the description “Netanyahu humiliated in the U.S.”
https://twitter.com/IrnaEnglish/status/1816842168947933293?
Observers soon discovered that the clip, released on Friday before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit...
Rep. Stefanik and Sen. Hagerty: Biden’s policies endanger Israel
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) sent U.S. President Joe Biden a letter advocating “our strong support for Israel’s right to self-defense amid the intensifying attacks that Israel faces from Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists...
Netanyahu’s hour
For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind.
For some 54 minutes, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.S....
Jerusalem warns Paris of Iran-backed plan to strike Israeli Olympians
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent a message to French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné on Thursday, one day prior to the launch of the Olympic Games in Paris, warning of an Iranian threat to...
Madness and World Politics: Risks of a Nuclear War
Abstract: Whether by design or inadvertence – by “bolt-from-the-blue” attacks or incremental aggressions – certain states could find themselves embroiled in a nuclear war. To stave off such an unprecedented circumstance, the United States and...
Iran showed its true colors in the AMIA bombing 30 years ago
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the devastating bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (Spanish initials: AMIA), a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina: 30 years of pain, 30 years demanding justice and...
Iranian foreign minister: Oct. 7 created ‘shift of balance’ against ‘Zionists’
Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel shifted the balance in the Middle East “in favor of the resistance,” interim Iranian foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani said on Tuesday in his first interview with a U.S....