Former Intelligence Minister Ali Falahian, Iran’s senior spokesman on sanctions, said Sunday, March 18, that if the US and Europe think they can ignore international law to promote their interests, they should know that Iran will respond in kind everywhere it can.
JERUSALEM – The U.S. should be “ashamed” of issuing an official statement on the current violence in Gaza that called on “both sides” – Israel and Hamas – to restore calm, declared a Knesset member from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party today
Defense secretary says ‘international permission’ trumps Congress - Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is facing criticism for statements he made at a hearing this week regarding the use of international military force without the explicit approval of Congress
Thank you for the warm reception. It could be heard as far away as Jerusalem – the eternal and united capital of Israel. More than two thirds of the Congress is in attendance here tonight. I deeply appreciate your being here
Obama: Will use force against Iran according to “time and circumstances”
U.S. preference is “to resolve this issue diplomatically”
U.S. support for Israel is, should remain, bipartisan.
Israel’s top leaders are gearing up for a flurry of high-profile diplomacy this coming week that will influence the next steps taken to thwart Iran’s nuclear program.
The US President turned down two Israeli requests. One, to set final red lines for Iran’s nuclear program which, if crossed, would be grounds for US and Israeli attacks. Israel says America’s “shifting red lines” let Iran leap ahead from one US red line to the next.
Post revolution Iran’s relations with Syria have grown in strength since 1980. The constant visits by Iranian and Syrian officials between Tehran and Damascus, their shared hostility towards Israel and the U.S. and common interests in Lebanon…
In an interview with the Fars News Agency today, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi claimed that Iran is in possession of secret weapons along with top secret capabilities that could be used to confront the United States.
The independent UN Watch monitoring group, which initiated last year’s successful NGO Campaign to Remove Libya from the UN Human Rights Council, today called on the US, the EU and UN rights chief Navi Pillay to urge council president Laura Dupuy Lasserre to cancel a planned resolution praising the Qaddafi regime’s human rights record
