by The Jerusalem Connection | Dec 15, 2016 | Iran
By Debkafile— Rex Tillerson, Chairman an CEO of Exxon Mobil, was named this week as the next administration’s Secretary of State to execute the tough foreign policies charted by president-elect Donald Trump, including his decision to stiffen the nuclear accord...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Dec 11, 2016 | Iran, Trump
By Jeff Poor, Breitbart— In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” set to air Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told network correspondent Leslie Stahl he believed President-elect Donald Trump would be a supporter of both Israel and the Jewish...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Dec 9, 2016 | Iran
By Cal Thomas, Washington Times— The consensus in Israel is that the relationship between the Jewish state and the United States is going to improve in a Trump administration, says former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Zalman Shoval. On a recent visit to...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Dec 1, 2016 | Iran
By Israel Today— A senior Iranian army commander last week assessed that Israel would be destroyed sometime in the next 10 years as a result of further Islamic revolutions in the region. Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Reza Naqdi (pictured) told a gathering of students near...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Nov 18, 2016 | Hizballah, Iran, Russia, Syria and Lebanon
By Reuters— Israel should be concerned about the deepening disconnect between Russia’s aims in the Middle East and its own goals, according to a senior Israeli official who held high-level meetings in Moscow last week. Avi Dichter, chairman of Israel’s foreign...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Oct 31, 2016 | Iran
By Times of Israel— Iran’s sole Jewish parliamentarian said the Islamic Republic is not seeking war with Israel and asserted that Tehran knows that launching an attack on the Jewish state would amount to “suicide.” “Iran does not want to start a war against...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Oct 7, 2016 | Iran, ISIS, Islam
By Moshe Ya’alon, LA Times— U.S. political leaders of both parties argue that destroying Islamic State is America’s top priority in the Middle East. In reality, that’s not nearly as important as confronting the challenge posed by Iran. The nuclear deal...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Oct 7, 2016 | Iran
By Barney Breen-Portnoy, Algemeiner— Democratic candidate Tim Kaine “grossly misrepresented and distorted” the IDF chief of staff’s view of the Iran nuclear agreement during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday night, a Middle East expert told The Algemeiner....
by The Jerusalem Connection | Sep 30, 2016 | Iran
By Moshe Ya’alon, LA Times— U.S. political leaders of both parties argue that destroying Islamic State is America’s top priority in the Middle East. In reality, that’s not nearly as important as confronting the challenge posed by Iran. The nuclear deal...
