Turkish media outlets are reporting that Washington canceled the delivery of 10 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Turkey after Ankara deliberately burned 10 Iranian spies operating inside Iran on behalf of the Israeli Mossad. The Predators are important for Turkey to maintain its fight against terrorism. In previous years the US press...

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Russian sources are signalling that a potential deal between the international community and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program could allow Tehran to continue enriching uranium up to 5% purity. “In the absence of trust between the two sides, we have to concentrate on what causes the most concern,” Deputy Foreign Minister...

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Washington Institute managing director Michael Singh late last week sought to outline what a nuclear deal with Iran would look like if the Obama administration and its allies pursue a strategy that holds out sanctions relief until Iran takes long-understood steps to meet roughly a half-dozen United Nations Security Council...

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The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that it intends to sell $10.8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with Bloomberg describing the move as designed to send “a message of support” to Gulf allies known to be increasingly critical of the Obama’s administration’s general...

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The Washington Post on Thursday brushed off repeated Iranian assertions that the Islamic republic has an absolute “right” to enrich uranium, matter-of-factly noting that “no ‘right’ to enrich uranium exists in the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” that enrichment is not “needed for a nuclear program,” that “many countries using nuclear power do...

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The IDF has announced the discovery and destruction of a second tunnel dug underneath Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, following one disclosed earlier this week that had been built to open up near a kindergarten which authorities believe Palestinian terrorists intended to target. The new tunnel stretched dozens of yards into Israel,...

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The Washington Post‘s editorial this morning emphasizes that Iran’s “advanced centrifuges and the Arak [plutonium] reactor must now be part of any deal” that would provide Tehran with sanctions relief, since the “new facts” established by Iran’s recent installation of advanced uranium and plutonium technology have “torn some big holes” in what...

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The Israeli military last week made a point of highlighting the Israeli Air Force’s abilities to conduct long range operations, including the IAF’s midair refueling capabilities. The Washington Post notes that the display comes on the eve of talks between the West and Iran: In an apparent message to Iran,...

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The amount and sophistication of centrifuges at Tehran’s disposal are critical variables in debates over what concessions the Islamic regime must make in order to meet the half-dozen or so United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions calling on the country to verifiably halt its nuclear weapons program. At stake is...

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Several weeks ago what Iranian officials described as a technical “glitch” briefly gave Iranian citizens access to banned Internet sites, including social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. The access was hailed by Western journalists as potentially “the start of a more tolerant attitude towards social media by the government”...

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