All Journal Posts Tagged 'iranian threat' (59)

"Smoking Uranium" indicates Iran is working on final nuke stage

Iran is working on development of a neutron initiator, a key final component of a nuclear weapon, The Times of London reported Sunday. The newspaper reports obtaining confidential intelligence documents from "foreign intelligence agencies" and quotes a source at an "Asian intelligence agency" as confirming that Iran has been working on the device since at least early 2007. A document cited by the paper also describes the use of uranium deuteride, a material experts believe… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on December 14, 2009 at 11:54am — 2 Comments

Iran gives the UN the finger

Teheran will not answer to the UN nuclear watchdog beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty, an Iranian nuclear official said Friday. The official, Abolfazl Zohrehvand, said this limited cooperation would apply to the building of 10 new uranium enrichment facilities. Teheran on Sunday announced it intends to build the new sites. The statement followed a strong rebuke from the Vienna-based UN agency and spiked Western concerns over… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on December 4, 2009 at 7:30pm — 3 Comments

Iran provokes: 10 new nuclear enrichment plants authorized

Iran's government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 industrial-scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion of the program in brazen defiance of demands by the UN that the nation halt enrichment. The decision comes just days after the UN nuclear watchdog agency (the IAEA) censured Iran for its program and demanded that it halt construction of a newly revealed enrichment facility in Qom. Iran's state news agency IRNA reported that the government ordered the At… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 29, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Iranian rejection of nuclear deal is soft-pedaled by ElBaradei

Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, responded negatively Thursday to the IAEA proposal endorsed by world powers that demanded that Iran send three-quarters of its known low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for conversion into difficult-to-weaponize nuclear fuel. The contents of the response were not released by Tehran nor by its Egyptian apologist, IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei. As the New York Times reported, "In public, neither the Iranians nor th… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 30, 2009 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

French FM worries Israel may "react" to Iranian nuke

French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner warned that Iran's nuclear ambitions have started a "race to confrontation" with Israel and the world's leading powers must break the deadlock before the Jewish state "reacts." Kouchner, born a Jew, also said: "There is the time that Israel will offer us before reacting because Israel will react as soon as they know clearly that there… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 28, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

Nuke inspectors come and go, talk of Michelangelo

Leaving so soon? Senior Iranian MP Alaeddin Boroujerd said Monday afternoon, Oct. 26 that the UN inspectors had completed their mission to visit the newly-disclosed uranium enrichment plant and were invited to leave Iran later in the day. The nuclear watchdog team was to have visited the Fordu plant near Qom again, so either the Iranians aborted the inspectors' mission or they were denied access to the suspected facility. As the world powers sweated and fretted, waiting a… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 26, 2009 at 11:45pm — 1 Comment

Did Israel and Iran meet, talk, or just stare each other down?

Israel and Iran both took part in an international conference on nuclear disarmament last month in Egypt. Now media reports are indicating that the two enemies met face to face. An Israeli official confirmed Thursday the two sides attended the conference but denied they talked face-to-face. Iran also denied any direct meetings. But Australia's The Age newspaper quoted participants as saying that the rivals had a "very robust exchange" during the two-day event in the Egyptian capital. Israel's… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 24, 2009 at 7:55pm — No Comments

Iran rejects latest UN offer, stalling for time

Iran on Friday appeared to reject a UN-drafted plan for cutting its stockpile of nuclear fuel that the West fears could be used for weapons, instead calling for the world to respond to its own proposal. The deal, proposed by the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), has already won the approval of the United States, Russia and France. By offering its own proposal, of which no details were available, Iran appeared to be again seeking to buy time to avoid a tightenin… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 23, 2009 at 5:45pm — No Comments

Duck for Cover: French say Israel plans Christmas strike

According to an unconfirmed report in the French Le Canard Enchainé of Wednesday, Oct. 14, Israel is preparing to bomb Iranian nuclear sites and pro-Iranian targets across the Middle East after December 2009. The respected satirical weekly -- it's title means "The Chained Duck" -- reports that the IDF has notified special forces reservists abroad to return home in November to be drafted for the military operation. The weekly also reports Israel has ordered combat rat… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 16, 2009 at 1:00am — 4 Comments

Iran bound? Pentagon burning big bucks on bunker busters

Is the U.S. stepping up preps for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facilities? An inconspicuous funding request recently sent to Congress and quietly approved suggests that the answer is a resounding yes. n October 2007, ABC News reported that the Pentagon had asked Congress for $88 million in the emergency Iraq/Afghanistan war funding request to develop a mammoth bunker-busting bomb called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP): It's a 30,000-pound (15 ton) conventional… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 7, 2009 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

Israeli experts: Nuke plant near Qom is "smoking cannon"

Israel's leading daily quote a senior defense official as saying that the revelation of a previously undisclosed nuclear plant in Qom was not a "smoking gun" but a "smoking cannon" -- proof of Iran's intentions to produce nuclear weaponry. Monday, Iran test fired missiles with a range capable of hitting Israel, US allies and military installations. Iranian reports warned that it would be the death of Israel if its nuclear plans were attacked. Iran's nuclear chief, Vice Pr… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 29, 2009 at 9:35pm — 1 Comment

Western delegates walk out on the Tiny Terror from Tehran

Under increasing attack over his country's suspected nuclear weapons program, diminutive despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that Teheran was ready to meet conciliation with conciliation. He was forced to address a half-empty chamber as the representatives of many western nations demonstrattive… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 24, 2009 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

Iran's only AWACS jet crashes -- on Khomeini's grave

On Tuesday, as Iranian president declared that Iran's armed forces would "chop off the hands" of any power daring to attack his country, two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran's only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for coordinating long-distance aerial operations, DEBKAfile reported. The military parade, which included a convoy of Shehab-3 missiles emblazoned with a sign that said "Down With Israe… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 23, 2009 at 11:30pm — 10 Comments

Netanyahu: Israel seeks "peace of recognition and security"

Transcript of an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: A big day today, the President of the United States hosting a summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders right here in New York. Let's get right to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He's joining us. The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, told our Fareed Zakaria the other day that he had an assurance from the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, that Israel has no intention… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 23, 2009 at 12:14pm — No Comments

Key Obama backer: shoot down Israeli jets enroute to Iran

National security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, suggested that President Obama should tell Israel that if they try to strike Iran's nuclear weapons sites the U.S. Air Force will stop them. The Iranians alone, he said in an interview with The Daily Beast, couldn't prevent an Israeli strike. "They really can’t do mu… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 21, 2009 at 8:00pm — 8 Comments

BBC: Israel link to "hijacked" Russian ship

Israel was linked to the interception of the missing cargo ship Arctic Sea last month, a senior figure close to Israeli intelligence has told the BBC. Israel had informed Moscow that it knew the ship was secretly carrying a Russian air defence system for Iran, although Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed as "speculation" reports that sophisticated S-300 missiles -- a source of dispute between Jerusalem and Russia - were on board the ship. He promised a "tra… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 10, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Sources: Netanyahu secretly briefed Putin about Iran plans

It turns out that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't visiting a security installation at all when he disappeared for 10 hours last week. He was making a mysterious visit to Moscow, reportedly to meeting with Russian Premier Putin. Kommersant newspaper quoted "experts" as saying they believe a visit of this kind could have stemmed from urgent circumstances such as "Israeli plans to attack Iran". The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that Netanyahu's Mond… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 10, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

Hillary tells Israel to be "patient" as America woos mullahs

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has advised Israelis to be patient with America's approach towards the fundamentalist Islamic leadership in Iran, even though the Iranians have rejected all US approaches to date. The senior officials now in Israel -- defense secretary Gates,… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on July 27, 2009 at 9:30pm — 6 Comments

Iranian military: If Israel strikes, we'll hit its nuclear plants

The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that Iran will attack Israel's nuclear facilities if the Jewish state strikes Iran, a semi-official Iranian news agency reported. "If the Zionist regime attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities wit… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on July 26, 2009 at 2:30pm — 14 Comments

Israeli minister mocks Clinton "umbrella" to stop Iranian nukes

A dovish Israeli minister has mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement on Tuesday that Washington would provide "a defense umbrella" for its allies in the Middle East in the event that Iran develops nuclear weapons. Clinton said on Tuesday that the U.S. has a plan to prevent Iranian domination in the Middle East if it gets the nuclear bomb. "If the U.S. extends a defense umbrella over the region, if we do even more to support the military capacity of thos… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on July 22, 2009 at 11:30pm — 5 Comments

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