Iran and Israel: World War III tipping point 15 June 2012?

There have been growing concern across the world about the spectre of a World War III. Growing conflicts with Iran, and the spread of wars in the Middle East have left many people to conclude that each day brings us one step closer to a World War III scenario. Many people...

Latest News on Iran, Israel, Egypt and Analysis

In-Depth Issues: Early Israeli Elections Cancelled, New Broad Coalition Announced - Attila Somfalvi (Ynet News)    In a surprise move, the Kadima party under its new chairman Shaul Mofaz agreed to join the Israeli government coalition on Tuesday, hours before the...

Iran Iran and Iran

In-Depth Issues: Iranian Admiral: "We Can Move to within Three Miles of New York" (Fars-Iran)     "Our naval forces are so powerful that we have a presence in all the waters of the world and, if needed, we can move to within three miles of New York," Islamic...

Latest News on Iran, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestinians

In-Depth Issues: Iranian Officials Observed North Korean Rocket Launch - Danielle Demetriou (Telegraph-UK)    The high-profile rocket launch in North Korea was reportedly attended by 12 officials from the Iranian Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHID).  ...

Russia and China: Who is more worthy of respect?

 In 1985, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union elected a noble-minded leader named Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev promised to make the Soviet Union more humane and democratic. His reforms - glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic reconstruction) - became...

Can Iran’s current government ever be trusted?

The answer is no, so why bother? “Negotiating,” being at the table with Iran, provides them a forum for blather. They typically make fools of themselves while throwing out just enough hope that the weakest...

Armed with “intelligence” U.S. approaches Iran negotiation

According to this Washington Post report, the U.S. will be at the “negotiation” table with Iran on Friday with Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. The U.S. will be in a position to share intelligence...

latest on Iran, US, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Syria

In-Depth Issues: Joint Greek-Israeli-U.S. Military Drill to Defend Gas Platforms at Sea - A. Papapostolou (Greek Reporter)    Greece, Israel, and the U.S. are conducting joint air and naval exercises from March 26 until April 5, in part to simulate defending ...

Why President Obama took control of oil by executive order

Why President Obama took control of oil by executive order: It is a squeeze play against Iran. He needed the latitude to regulate the flow of oil into the market to ease pressure to offset sanctions against Iran. ...

Exposing the Truth about Global March on Jerusalem

All Information made possible by CIF Watch. As previously reported, the SE Asia delegation of the Global March to Jerusalem (which has picked up some Iranian fellow travellers along the way) is currently in Turkey.   One of the Iranian delegates has provided photographs...

Iranians speak to Israeli newspaper, reveal grim state of affairs

So many pundits and so many stories about hatred between Iran and Israel. Yet the people of both countries reach out to each other and in the end the suffering and oppression in Iran appears to be unbearable. While in Israel we are preoccupied with threats and preparations...

Assessing Iran with a bomb

Walter Pincus at the Washington Post reports an assessment. Conclusion: Israel outclasses Iran with its own nuclear capability that would smother Iran. Iranian leaders aren’t inclined to become martyrs. Everyone...

Iran Part 3

By Yoram Getzler. As an up-date and continuation to my recent posting about Iran, I would like to add a pikanti story from the Israeli press on the kind of individual peace initiative that people so love to hear about, contemplate and participate in.   To begin with it...

Sobering contemplation: another American-led war

When you listen to Iran’s leadership they sound very much like Hitler and the Nazis before WWII. They feel a need to pick an external enemy to rally people around their extreme views. They interweave theocracy...

Buying time for Iran, Israel, and Obama

What the world needs now is peace, not war Given the character of the Iranian government, it is unacceptable to permit them to have nuclear weapons. In effect, with sanctions against them, Iran is already at war...
 

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