NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Israeli President Shimon Peres sent his annual greeting to Iran for Persian New Year, saying that he hopes for peace and coexistence between the two countries.

The Israeli officials have agreed with the U.S. assessment that Iran has not yet decided on the actual construction of a nuclear bomb, the Associated Press reported quoting senior Israeli government and defense figures.

An online call for peace between Israel and Iran is gaining support among the citizens of both the countries which are busy exchanging war threats over Tehran's alleged clandestine nuclear weapons program.

Israel's foreign minister said Friday in Beijing that his country hopes to resolve a nuclear standoff with Iran through diplomatic means. China has close ties to both Israel and Iran.

The move comes amid a new wave of sanctions designed by the U.S. and EU to further pressure Tehran to halt its alleged development of nuclear weapons.

Labels like liberal and conservative have become so over-used that I frankly must admit I have no idea what they even mean anymore.

While reiterating its stance that there are no nuclear weapons activities going on in the military site of Parchin, Iran has agreed to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency team to inspect the site.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hinted that his country will not back away from its nuclear ambitions threatened by the possibility of a U.S.-backed Israeli military strike.

In a bid to pressurize Iran into giving up its nuclear weapons ambitions, the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said a naval blockade of Iranian oil exports should precede a U.S.-Israel joint military action against the Islamic nation.

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.

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.

Iran may be cleaning up a suspected nuclear-weapons development site to fool U.N. inspectors, Western officials briefed on satellite intelligence said Wednesday.

Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of ancient Persia from destruction.

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.

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.

Iran on Tuesday said it will give U.N. weapons inspectors access to a secret military complex where it's believed work on a nuclear weapon may be taking place, as Western countries offered to resume talks with Tehran over its nuclear program.

The matter also has great urgency given Israel’s warnings that it won't tolerate a nuclear Iran and that it may launch a pre-emptive military strike on Iranian atomic facilities.