Lieberman to Saudi media: If Iran attacks Tel Aviv, Israel will attack Tehran

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Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif AFP Iran’s Supreme Leader says Arab nations that befriend Israel ‘bring misery to Muslims’ Israel’s defense minister Avigdor Liberman issued a stark threat to Iran through Saudi … Read More

Iran says will make or buy and weapons it needs, blasts ‘invading powers’

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“We are not living in a normal region, and we see invading powers have built bases around us. Disregarding the principles of international law, they intervene in regional affairs.”  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with Muslim leaders and … Read More

Iran and Israel on a collision course as Syria burns

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PHOTO: Iran is “the biggest occupying power in the Arab world today”, writes The New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman. (Reuters: Morteza Nikoubazl, file) Syria was not the only target in the US-led military strike; there was a message here for another … Read More

Saudi king pledges $150m for Jerusalem, $50m for UNRWA

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US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (R) upon arrival at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on May 20, 2017 BANDAR AL-JALOUD (Saudi Royal Palace/AFP) “East Jerusalem is an integral part of … Read More

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says Israel has a ‘right’ to homeland

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Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader has explicitly acknowledged Israel’s right to its own homeland, a first for a senior official from the kingdom. However, he also made a bizarre comparison between Hitler and Iran’s leader. Israel has a “right” to … Read More

Trump Freezes Funds for Syrian Recovery, Signaling Pullback

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Order to State Department to hold off on spending jibes with president’s call for an early exit. Syrian children and youths watching a U.S. armored-vehicle convoy pass last year on a road to Raqqa, Syria. PHOTO: HUSSEIN MALLA/ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump … Read More

John Bolton and Washington’s Iran policy industry

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Bolton is only a by-product of a general policy environment in Washington continually primed to directly confront Iran. In a social media post late on March 22, Trump announced that Bolton will replace Lieutenant General HR McMaster as his chief … Read More

Crown Prince bin Salman Compares Ali Khamenei to Adolf Hitler

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Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) was compared to Hitler by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince has compared the Supreme leader of  Iran  to Adolf Hitler, during a recorded interview for 60 Minutes. Crown Prince Mohammed … Read More

Saudi Crown Prince says will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does

The government approved a national policy for its atomic energy program on Tuesday. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gestures during a military parade. (photo credit: SAUDI PRESS AGENCY/REUTERS) RIYADH – Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if its arch-rival … Read More

Israel’s Greatest Enemy: Iran, or Overconfidence?

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Headed north?  Photographer: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images On the wall of Amos Yadlin’s office at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, there is a framed Time magazine cover displaying an F-16A fighter jet — the plane Yadlin flew in 1981 when, as … Read More

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