Iranian media reported on Sunday that their country\’s military had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran, but a U.S. official said there was no indication the aircraft had been shot down.
A massive explosion that killed 17 troops including an officer regarded as the architect of Iran\’s missile defences last week took place during research on weapons that could strike Israel, the Islamic Republic\’s military chief said on Wednesday.
Israeli President Shimon Peres added to a debate raging in Israel over whether to attack Iran, when he said on Friday that a military option to stop the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons was nearer.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are trying to muster a majority in the cabinet in favor of military action against Iran, a senior Israeli official has said. According to the official, there is a \”small advantage\” in the cabinet for the opponents of such an attack.
The United States was advised by a German think tank to use \”covert sabotage\” to disrupt Iran\’s march toward nuclear weapons, a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable reveals.
Secret apartheid-era documents show that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa in the mid-1970s, a British newspaper reported.
President Obama expects Israel and other nations to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.\n\n\”As far as Israel goes, I’m not going to comment on their program,\” Obama said at a news conference Tuesday concluding his summit on nuclear security. \”What I’m going to point to is the fact that consistently we have urged all countries to become members of the NPT.\”\n
Israelis — including the American citizens among them, as many as half of whom hail from swing states — have been closely following the election campaign across the ocean with a mix of interest, concern, bemusement and validation
\”. . . What McCain did by supporting war in Iraq was helping Iran. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the war is Iran. He did it unwittingly because of a lack of judgment, and it made Iran stronger; they were the big winner. Now Iran is stronger and poses a bigger threat to Israel. . . \”
Voters confuse Obama stagecraft with vision. He is articulate and confident but also glib and cocky. This is not a humble man who knows what he doesn\’t know.
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