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Source : Agencies | 03 Oct 2012

Azerbaijan slammed Wednesday media reports that it would allow Israeli forces to deploy at Azeri military bases for a possible attack on Iran.

A spokesperson with the Azeri Foreign Ministry rejected the news reports on US and Israeli media outlets as "baseless" and "provocation," saying that Azerbaijan "respects territorial integrity and independence of all its neighbors."

Source : Agencies | 29 Sep 2012

Iran yesterday vowed to “retaliate” against any attack after Israel’s prime minister called for a “red line” to prevent the Islamic republic from acquiring a nuclear bomb.

Denying any nuclear military program, Iran’s deputy UN ambassador said his country “is strong enough to defend itself and reserves its full right to retaliate with full force against any attack.”

Source : Middle East Online | 28 Sep 2012

Egypt sees no reason to make changes to its peace treaty with Israel, presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said in statements carried Thursday by the state-owned paper Al-Ahram.

"There is no need for the moment to amend the Camp David agreement," said Ali who was accompanying President Mohamed Morsi in New York for the meetings of the UN General Assembly.

In 1979, Egypt became the first Arab country to sign a peace deal with Israel.

By Nina Larson | AFP | 25 Sep 2012

Israel must do more to halt a string of serious violations of Palestinian human rights documented by a 2009 fact-finding mission, according to a UN report published yesterday.

There is a “need to more earnestly pursue accountability for the serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law that were documented by the fact-finding mission,” Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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 | 13 Sep 2012

Israel’s opposition leader yesterday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “meddling” in the US presidential election and harming Israel’s ties with Washington in a dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.

The remarks by opposition leader Shaul Mofaz came as Netanyahu and the White House locked horns over how to handle Iran’s nuclear program, with Israel threatening unilateral military action against Tehran, despite American objections.

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.