Iran nuclear program

Source : Agencies | 21 Sep 2012

US officials have warned that Egypt and Jordan could annul their peace treaties with Israel and sever all diplomatic ties if the Jewish state attacks Iran’s nuclear sites, a newspaper said yesterday.

Quoting a high-level Israeli official, the top-selling Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot said Washington had warned that Arab leaders would not be able to control an angry public backlash if Israel were to mount an attack on Iran.

Source : Agencies | 18 Sep 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued to push the U.S. to set a "red line" for Iran, a limit it must not cross or face military conflict.

"You have to place that red line before them now, before it's too late," Netanyahu told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

Source : AP | 17 Sep 2012

The top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned yesterday that his country’s missiles will ensure “nothing will remain” of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program.

Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari also warned that Iran might close the Straits of Hormuz if it is attacked, withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and hit US bases in the Middle East.

By Jim Lobe and Jasmin Ramsey | IPS | 15 Sep 2012

While U.S. or Israeli air strikes may delay the building by Iran of a nuclear weapon, they are unlikely to prevent it altogether and could well prove counter-productive, according to a major new report signed by nearly three dozen former top U.S. foreign-policy makers, military officers, and independent experts.

Source : AFP | 08 Sep 2012

Canada closed its Tehran embassy on Friday and ordered Iranian diplomats be expelled as it accused the Islamic Republic of being the biggest threat to world peace.

Canada did not cite a specific incident that caused the breakdown, but issued a strongly worded attack on Tehran’s support for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s pariah regime and Iran’s “incitement to genocide” against Israel.

Source : Agencies | 07 Sep 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blew up at the U.S. ambassador last month because he was "at wits' end" over what he sees as the Obama administration's lack of clarity on Iran's nuclear program, a U.S. congressman who was at the meeting said.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, made his first public comments about the late August meeting in Israel in an interview with Michigan's WJR radio on Tuesday.

By Jonathan Marcus | BBC | 17 Aug 2012

Richard Silverstein - the American blogger who says he has been given the text of a memo outlining Israel's plans for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities - is clear about what he thinks it is.

Source : AP | Tehran | 26 Jul 2012

Western-led sanctions and diplomatic pressure will not force Iran to halt its nuclear program, Iran’s Supreme Leader said yesterday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, voiced confidence that the Islamic Republic can beat the latest punitive measures aimed at blocking the country’s vital oil and banking industries over the disputed program.

Source : Agencies | 18 Jul 2012

Iran said it would insure any foreign ships that enter its waters, in an effort to beat a European Union ban on insuring ships carrying Iranian crude that has hampered the country's oil exports.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran will take all responsibility for insuring any foreign shipping line and any ship that enters Iranian waters," the Fars news agency on Tuesday quoted Seyyed Ataollah Sadr, the managing director of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, as saying.

By Nicole Gaouette | Bloomberg | 17 Jul 2012

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. will use all elements of American power to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.