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During a press conference Monday, liberal advocacy groups CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace condemned President Barack Obama’s lack of diplomacy towards Iran and praised Republican Candidate Ron Paul’s foreign policy positions on the Islamic regime. (more)

President Barack Obama says he opposes Iranian possession of a nuclear weapon, but his deputies suggest he may accept Iranian “nuclear capability.” (more)

Graffiti reading “Victory to the Taliban,” “Victory to Hamas” and the word “Jihad” written inside a rocket appeared overnight on sidewalks outside the downtown Washington, D.C. convention center where President Barack Obama spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Sunday. (more)

President Barack Obama tried to make the case Sunday that his policy on Iran is working and that he is a staunch supporter of Israel, both practically and viscerally. (more)

President Barack Obama is carefully trying to reconcile his public support for the removal of Arab dictatorships with his outreach to his influential Jewish supporters who fear those revolutions will threaten Israel’s safety and Arabs’ freedoms. (more)

Supposedly, a combination of diplomatic and economic sanctions, coupled with a threat of military action, will negate any requirement to actually use force to bring a halt to Iran’s nuclear weapons development program. Yet sanctions only have a salutary effect on rational governments. President Ahmadinejad and the regime in Tehran are not rational. If one is serious about influencing their behavior it will be necessary to use other, more threatening means than just to disrupt their economy. (more)

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“Mostafa’s ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel,” Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani told the Fars News Agency this week. (more)

In an interview on Russia Today with Gayane Chichakyan on Tuesday, former MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan warned that some people in positions of power in Israel and the United States that would like to see the U.S. engaged in a war with Iran over its potential to build a nuclear weapon. (more)

Turkey will never allow any third country, particularly Israel, to use intelligence obtained by a NATO radar system, its foreign minister said on Friday. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. and Britain on Sunday urged Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear program as the White House’s national security adviser arrived in the region, reflecting growing international jitters that the Israelis are poised to strike. (more)

On Wednesday’s “Special Report Online” segment on FoxNews.com, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said that if Israel decides to attack Iran in order to thwart its development of nuclear weapons, the collateral damage wouldn’t start a third world war. (more)

With Iran allegedly striking out at Israeli citizens and Jewish targets around the world, Israeli and American security officials in the U.S. are on high alert. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has given a hardline Jewish group permission to build a new archaeological center in a tense Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, officials said Tuesday. (more)

Carl von Clausewitz, the renowned Prussian military theorist, famously wrote that war is merely a continuation of politics by other means. If so, then the Obama administration has disastrously misunderstood the Clausewitzian dictum when it comes to Israeli security. By misconstruing the relationship between policy and security, the administration has undermined rather than bolstered Israeli security. (more)

Minnesota congresswoman and former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann used her rock-star status at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference to warn right-leaning Americans about what she said was a dangerous Obama administration foreign policy. (more)

For the second time in a few months, we have seen a crazy Israel-about-to-attack-Iran story spread around the globe. I don’t want to go into all of the details, but this tale is an example of how the media has lost it completely due to a combination of laziness (reporters don’t really do research or check sources), agenda, ignorance, and good old sensationalism. Partly, too, it arises from the mass media’s struggle to deal with the Internet media era and the Internet media’s struggle to achieve decent journalistic standards. (more)

Twin developments have converged to require an urgent re-examination of America’s role in the world. We’re saddled with a crushing debt that demands steep spending cuts. And Americans are weary — and wary — of international activism after long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which we spent far too much American blood and treasure for too few results. We’re broke and we’re exhausted. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna’s not finished with stadiums. (more)

“Whoever says later may find later is too late,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said last week. His words drove Western policymakers into a tizzy. Everyone wants to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but not everyone is willing to do what it takes to bring that about. (more)