The summit will seek to pressure Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program.
The strike was reportedly retaliation for mortar shells fired into Israel from Gaza just hours before.
Dagan’s views would appear to contradict much of the hawkish rhetoric coming out of the Israeli government on the subject of Iran.
Israel has asked the United States for advanced bunker-buster bombs and refueling planes that could improve its ability to attack Iran's underground nuclear sites, an Israeli official said Thursday.
Ahani also said that foreign powers need not fear Iran’s atomic ambitions.
The options market's oil price forecast for 2012 is quite bullish.
Khamenei also criticized Obama for “still harboring illusions” that economic sanctions will pressure Iran to relinquish its nuclear activities.
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu was sportive enough to post a YouTube viral video which spoofed his address to the chief American-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on his official Facebook page.
The press agency of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement charged Wednesday that the CIA, Israel's Mossad and private security firms have been exposed supporting Syrian rebels in Homs.
Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of ancient Persia from destruction.
Greek tourism revenues could drop by up to five percent in 2012 due to a fall in pre-bookings from Germany, industry officials said Wednesday, denting hopes the key sector will help pull the country out of the Eurozone financial crisis.
Juppe’s stand would seem to contradict the more belligerent tone that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken with respect to the Iranians.
An Indian journalist was arrested on Tuesday as a suspect in last month's bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi.
Israel was guarded in its approach to the resumption of talks with Iran by the world powers on Wednesday. The six world powers including the United States, France, Britain, China, Germany and Russia had expressed their willingness to continue talks with Iran over its nuclear program.Iran had offered to open up a key military base for international inspections, which the world powers suspect would be used for a its secret nuclear program.
Iran, which insists it seeks to develop atomic energy for purely peaceful purposes, has not set a date or locale for such talks.
“Hamas is not part of military alliances in the region… our strategy is to defend our rights.”
Responding to a recent op-ed by GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, a former director of Israel's intelligence agency Mossad said the Republican candidate is making it more difficult for the U.S. and Israel administrations to contain Iran's nuclear weapons ambition.
Gauging U.S. presidents on the basis of how much weight they are willing to throw behind its Middle East ally Israel is a political tactic which has been around for long.
President Barack Obama Tuesday held his first news conference of 2012, touching on a variety of topics including Iran's nuclear ambitions, gas prices, immigration reform and Rush Limbaugh's remarks on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke.
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum all made speeches to members of the American Israel Political Action Committee today, tearing into President Obama for his AIPAC speech on Monday. It was Santorum's speech, however, which accused the president of appeasement and called Iran the most radical regime in the world, that made the most waves.
Trump pointed out that launching a war on Iraq temporarily boosted the popularity of Obama’s predecessor in the White House, George W. Bush.
Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all scheduled to give speeches at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) via satellite on Super Tuesday. Before the three candidates took time out of Super Tuesday to appear, however, all three gave heated attacks on the president, dismissing his own AIPAC speech on Monday and calling for harsher action when it came to dealing with Iran.
