Monthly Archives: November 2013

Iran Announces Development of Ballistic Missile Technology

http://freebeacon.com/iran-announces-development-of-ballistic-missile-technology/ A top Iranian military leader announced late Tuesday that Iran has developed “indigenous” ballistic missile technology, which could eventually allow it to fire a nuclear payload over great distances. Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the lieutenant...

Tonight I’m Gonna Party Like It’s 19[3]9

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/tonight-im-gonna-party-like-its-1939.html “The sky was all purpleThere were people runnin’ everywhere Oops out of time,Tryin’ to run from the destructionYou know I didn’t even care...So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 199.”-Prince, “1999” I have been working...

Iran FM Zarif Strikes Different Tone in Tehran, Says Nuclear Activities To Go On...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/11/25/iran-fm-zarif-strikes-different-tone-in-tehran-nuclear-activities-to-go-on-as-normal-fars-reports/ Despite an international treaty to the contrary, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, upon arrival at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport on Sunday, ”underlined that all Iran’s nuclear sites will go on their normal activities”...

Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace

http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...

The victims of Syria’s war finding care in Israel

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24998618 In the maternity unit at the Sieff Hospital in the Israeli city of Tzfat, the safe arrival of every baby feels like a minor miracle. But on the day we visited, there was one little...

Yossi Kuperwasser analyses Palestinian incitement

http://www.bicom.org.uk/analysis-article/17311/ On Monday 11 November, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the Director General of Israel’s Ministry for Strategic Affairs, who leads a project to monitor and evaluate Palestinian incitement against Israel, addressed a forum on...

Observation: Error in narrative of critics of Netanyahu could lead to disastrous policy conclusions

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62459 Let's be clear about this: the bad deal that the United States rushed to sign - a deal that explicitly refers to Iran having the capability enrich uranium in the final arrangement, did not...

Pros and cons of Geneva deal

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4457133,00.html The agreement signed early Sunday in Geneva between the world powers and Iran is a reasonable agreement and even a good one - as long as it really is an interim agreement which will...

Israel Intelligence Assessment: Iran Unlikely To Start War

Israel has assessed that Iran was unlikely to launch a regional war even its nuclear infrastructure was destroyed. Israel's leading strategic institute has concluded that Teheran would demonstrate restraint in wake of an Israeli strike...

The Point of No Return: Clearly the Obama Administration Won’t Ever Do Anything Serious...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/the-point-of-no-return-clearly-obama.html *David Gerstman has kindly sent this three-year-old article to me, which is still relevant today. We must now face an extremely unpleasant truth: even giving the Obama Administration every possible break regarding its Iran policy,...