FEB. 2 – “America’s Vice President Joe Biden launched an outspoken attack on Iran’s hard- line leaders today, claiming they were ‘sowing the seeds of their own destruction,’”reports the Daily Mail.
JAN. 30 – ” The Obama administration is accelerating the deployment of a series of new defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf, placing special ships off the Iranian coast and antimissile systems in at least four Arab countries, according to administration and military officials,” reports the New York Times.
JAN. 28 – “Iran will suffer consequences as a result of its refusal to cooperate with the international community on its nuclear program, U.S. President Barack Obama said during his first State of the Union address late Wednesday night in Washington,” report Haaretz and DPA.
JAN. 28 – “The Obama administration will this week introduce a paper to the permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany outlining Iranian individuals and firms to be targeted in a new sanctions regime, said senior officials involved in the diplomacy,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
JAN. 27 – “U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is using meetings in London this week to press ahead with imposing tough new international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program,” reports the AP.
And in Germany:
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that time and patience were running out on Iran’s nuclear program and that [...]
JAN. 25 – “As if President Barack Obama didn’t have his hands full at home with his party’s loss of Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts, the collapse of health care reform and a disorganized war against the banks, he now faces a major foreign policy setback,” writes Massimo Calabresi in Time Magazine. “Since the 2008 [...]
JAN. 21 – From WashingtonTV’s report on the address to the Hudson Institute in Washington by Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council for Foreign Relations:
JAN. 21 – “I have been very unhappy at the comments by the American military leaders, Secretary [Robert] Gates and Admiral [Mike] Mullen – and by the [...]
A wide-ranging interview with Raymond Tanter, the prominent Georgetown University lecturer and leading expert on U.S. policy options toward Iran.
Dr. Emily Landau, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, offers a three-pronged approach for the Obama administration in its dealings with Iran and its suspected nuclear weapons program.
JAN. 8 – “We recognize what the potential could be there [Iran],” said U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following a keynote address yesterday to a special Policy Forum at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “And at the same time, we’ve looked to do all we can to ensure that conflict [...]
JAN. 7 – “As long as the Iran conversation was broad and dealt only with ’sanctions,’ the Congress, the White House and the pro-Israel community seemed to be on the same page,” reports JTA Washington Bureau Chief Ron Kampeas. “But now that Iran has rejected just about every bouquet sent its way and the talk [...]
JAN. 5 – Prof. Efraim Inbar, Director of Bar Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Israel, has characterized the West’s handling of Iran and its suspected weapons program as “inept.”
JAN. 5 – Some morning headlines in the Israeli press are greeting with skepticism yesterday’s comments about Iran by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
On the leading Israeli news site, YNET, the main headline reads, “Clinton: U.S. Not Closing the Door to Talks With Iran.” In a four-line sub-head, it is noted that Clinton’s remarks come “five days after a [...]
JAN. 3 – The Israeli print and broadcast media are giving prominence, this morning, to the New York Times report that Obama Administration officials feel Iran’s nuclear program has been “seriously derailed.”
JAN. 2 – The New York Daily News, in an editorial published today, is calling for tough action against Iran.
“Enough with namby-pambyism,” says the paper. “Easily evaded measures like squeezing the finances of the country’s Revolutionary Guard are highly unlikely to prod Ahamedinejad and Khamenei to delay production, let alone forsake nukes altogether.”
JAN. 2 – The New York Times is reporting tonight that according to the Obama administration, domestic unrest in Iran and signs of unexpected trouble in its nuclear program are making Iran’s leaders, particularly vulnerable to strong and immediate new sanctions.”
The Times also reports that according to Obama administration officials, Iran’s bomb-development effort was “seriously derailed” by the exposure three [...]
JAN. 1 – Sobering headlines about Iran, this New Year’s Day.
The Jerusalem Post’s Hilary Leila Kreiger and Haviv Rettig Gur, in their dispatch from Washington, report the US has “toughened its rhetoric” and is “looking increasingly to sanctions rather than diplomacy,” now that its deadline to Iran has passed. The article includes an interview with Israel’s Ambassador to Washington, Michael [...]
DEC. 31 – With the expiration, tonight, of Washington’s ultimatum to Iran to agree to an imposed uranium enrichment deal or else face “crippling sanctions,” a number of Israeli media outlets are already noting the Obama administration’s planned change in tone.
Israel’s Channel 10 correspondent in Washington, Gil Tamari, reports that Washington instead plans to impose “targeted sanctions,” so as not to [...]
