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nctions while preserving Iran's now extensive, sophisticated and diversified nuclear program, one with the infrastructure needed to eventually give Tehran a robust arsenal of nuclear weapons. EFTA00662705 The Israelis respect Iran's diplomatic prowess that skillfully plays on the desperate desires

peace treaty. Israel and Egypt, bolstered by EFTA00662703 American economic and security assistance, have mutually enjoyed a secure border along the Sinai Peninsula for more than thirty years. The Arab spring, however, has jeopardized that security stability. The future course of the regime in Cairo is uncertai

the separatist group, has been arrested by Iran's intelligence ministry agents." The report added, "Chaab has planned several other major attacks in Tehran and IChuzestan province in recent years...he has recently been planning to launch a new terrorist operation that failed with the efforts of the inte

telligence.corn/d60152e287ee4321852a9c41e65466db?pubid=fbi> (11/12, story 5, 0:25, Muir, 6.57M) reported, "Officials say the helicopter went down in the Sinai Peninsula during a routine mission. The Blackhawk [is] believed to have suffered a mechanical failure. One American survived." David Martin said on the CBS E

an opening to expand its sphere of influence. For years, Iran's leadership has aimed to foment discord while furthering its geopolitical ambitions. Tehran has long funded Hamas and Hezbollah; recently, its scope of attempted interference has broadened to include the affairs of Arab states from Yemen t

Israel is fixed. Its precise borders have never been. Thus, it is perhaps better to begin with what never was part of Israel. Israel never included the Sinai Peninsula. Along the coast, it never stretched much farther north than the Litani River in today's Lebanon. Apart from David's extreme extension (and fairly

Iran is subject to six different types of sanctions imposed since 1979. The first set of sanctions is related to the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran and the holding of its diplomats hostage. Under the Algiers Accord of 1980, a mechanism was to be created to lift those sanctions. That did not hap

the 1967 Six-Day War, but tensions remained high. 2. UN Resolution 242 (1967) The 6-Day War was a major tactical victory for Israel. It captured the Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and all of Jerusalem. At this stage Israel had bargaining chips and sought to leverage them. UN Resolutio

can build "strategic trust" with China in the Middle East, the habit could take hold elsewhere. One might say that the road to Xanadu goes through Tehran and Jerusalem. If he cannot, then he faces a tough four years of trying to cope with a rising China amid flat or falling US defence budgets and th

ughout the strip. The pressure on Hamas only increased in the wake of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The Egyptian revolution and the subsequent chaos in the Sinai Peninsula were a backwind in the sails of Gaza's Salafis. The collapse of authoritarian regimes in North Africa unleashed a flood of weapons and fighters, wh

formation about Israel's intentions and capabilities into the news media. The president's unwillingness to take preemptive military action against Tehran's nuclear efforts has long been evident, notwithstanding his ritual EFTA00686711 incantation that "all options are on the table." Equally evident

n saw Israel as a guarantor of its national security. Following the 1973 war, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel that created a buffer zone in the Sinai Peninsula. By then, Lebanon had begun to shift its position, less because of any formal government policy and more because of the disintegration of the Leba

multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions and a phalanx of national sanctions. Many believe that only military force will stop Iran, but even now Tehran doesn't appear to take such a threat seriously. One step short of force that the "international community" has been unwilling to take is ostracizi

y Beast Is Morsy Staging or Reversing Coup? Hussein Ibish August 13, 2012 -- Seizing on the momentum created by the attack on Egyptian forces in the Sinai Peninsula last week, new Egyptian President Mohammad Morsy took several bold moves this weekend. One of them was firing the country's most senior EFTA_R1_00

The Diplomat An Act of Self-Preservation: Why Iran Wants the Bomb David Patrikarakos Article 3. The Washington Post U.N. chief should boycott Tehran conference Editorial Article 4 AI-Monitor Take Israel Iran Threat 'Very Seriously' Laura Rozen Article 5. TIME What the Muslim Brotherhood's

i crisis. Egypt Since 1978, Israel's strategic reality had been that it faced no threat of a full peripheral war. After Camp David, the buffer of the Sinai Peninsula separated Egypt and Israel, and Egypt had a government that did not want that arrangement to break. Israel still faced a formally hostile Syria. Sy

were not inter- nationally recognized borders. The Arab-Israeli conflict came to a new head with the Six Day War in June 1967, when Israel conquered the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. In the aftermath, Arab nations unified

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n an opening to expand its sphere of influence. For years, Iran's leadership has aimed to foment discord while furthering its geopolitical ambitions. Tehran has long funded Hamas and Hezbollah; recently, its scope of attempted interference has broadened to include the affairs of Arab states from Yemen to

f Israel is fixed. Its precise borders have never been. Thus, it is perhaps better to begin with what never was part of Israel. Israel never included the Sinai Peninsula. Along the coast, it never stretched much farther north than the Litani River in today's Lebanon. Apart from David's extreme extension (and fairly te