JAN. 7 – Israel’s Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, says a nuclear-armed Iran would bring an “end” to stability in the Middle East, according to Israel Radio.
“There is still time for diplomacy to work,” Barak told a forum yesterday at Tel Aviv University. But he said Israel expects the West to establish a “final deadline” for exhausting those efforts.
“No option should [...]
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. 4 – Israel Radio is reporting this morning that France has rejected Iran’s ultimatum to the West that it has to accept Iran’s counterproposal to a United Nations’ brokered deal aimed at slowing the Iranian nuclear program.
The report cites the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who told RTL Radio, “We are not the ones who have to decide whether [...]
JAN. 2 – It is being suggested that a New Year ultimatum issued on Iranian state television by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, that the West has one month to accept Iran’s counter proposal for enriching its nuclear fuel stockpile, is but an effort to “push a confrontation with the West to divert public attention from political and [...]
