Iran

Spotlight on Iran (Week of September 25-October 1, 2012 )

Iran dismisses and mocks Israeli PM Netanyahu’s speech before the U.N. General Assembly. Iranian website: the situation in Iran is grave.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (September 5-11, 2012)

This past week four long-range rockets landed in Israeli territory near the town of Netivot and the city of Beersheba. For the past ten days there have been violent public protests in Judea and Samaria, with hundreds of demonstrators taking to the streets to protest the cost of living.
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Spotlight on Iran (Week of September 4-11, 2012)

President’s interview provokes sharp criticism and spurs speculations on his political intentions “A colony run by Britain”: Iranian reactions to Canada’s decision to cut off ties with Tehran
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Why did Ayatollah Khomeini agree to drink from the poisoned chalice? *

A look at the constraints and considerations that influenced Khomeini in his historic decision to end the war with Iraq-a strategic turn in Iran’s policy-and its relevance to our times
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Iranian-sponsored Jerusalem Day events were poorly attended this year and received little media coverage.

Speeches were exploited for vicious anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish and anti-American incitement and to deter Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations.
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (August 22-28, 2012)

This past week terrorist events focused on rocket fire (six identified hits) targeting the western Negev shortly before the opening of the new school year. On August 28 the Haifa District Court dismissed a civil claim lodged by the family of Rachel Corrie, an activist belonging (ISM), who was run over by an IDF bulldozer
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