Israeli officials are adding their voices to those of U.S., E.U., and U.N. officials accusing Iran of using negotiations to stall for time as it develops clandestine elements of its atomic program widely believed to be linked to weaponization.  The talks’ failure was unsurprising to members of the P5+1,  a senior Israeli official...

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Talks in Kazakhstan between the P5+1 and Iran have ended without any evident progress. This comes as no surprise, since Iran entered the talks with a posture described by analysts as “defiant.”  Reports indicate that Iran emerged from the talks upbeat. Going in, Western expectations were described as low, and despite...

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The Telegraph has published images showing that Iran has activated the heavy-water production plant in its Arak complex. Heavy water is necessary to operate nuclear reactors capable of producing plutonium, which Tehran could then process further to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The published images show a cloud of steam that...

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Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps are currently in the Gaza Strip, high-level Palestinian security sources tell The Tower. The Iranians, according to our security sources, are experts in missile production, and are in Gaza to help Hamas and Islamic Jihad develop long-range missiles. Israeli security and political officials declined...

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Taking into account the global nonproliferation regime, the effect of sanctions on Iran, and the internal political situations in Iran, the New York Times evaluates the prospects for a breakthrough in today’s P5+1 talks in Kazakhstan and deems them… not great: When Iran’s nuclear negotiating team sits down with its Western...

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Israel’s Defense Ministry announced today that it successfully tested Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-missile system, the latest iteration of the jointly-developed U.S.-Israeli platform designed to target and shoot down long-range missiles of the kind deployed by Syria and Iran. The Arrow system, co-produced by The Boeing Corporation and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), is the first the...

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With less than a week to go before Iran meets with the P5+1 to discuss its atomic program, Tehran has begun to install advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment facility (U.S. officials are describing the move as “provocative”). The installation will allow Iran to enrich uranium up to five...

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Nigerian officials have arrested three members of Iranian-backed terrorist cell who were gathering intelligence about potential U.S. and Israeli targets in the country and plotting to murder military and religious leaders. The cell’s 50-year old head Abdullahi Mustaphah Berende, a prominent figure in a local Shiite sect, has already confessed...

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A defendant on trial in Cyprus for plotting terror attacks against Israeli tourists has admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, a confession that promises to deepen pressure on the European Union to heed U.S. calls and formally designate the Iran-backed group a terrorist organization. The admission by Hossam Taleb...

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Indications are growing that Hezbollah has made a series of tactical blunders, in Lebanon and beyond in Syria, which have the group scrambling to recover. In Syria the Iran-backed group finds itself engaged in a deepening sectarian war with Al Qaeda-linked Sunni rebels who see Hezbollah as complete infidels, full stop. Just...

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