Tensions Escalate Between Israel, Iran
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Iran threatened this week to attack Israel's nuclear facilities. Israel ominously warned that it "knows how to defend itself." Tensions between the two arch enemies have suddenly escalated, underlining the other great enmity that has been bubbling on the sidelines of the Arab-Israeli conflict for more than two decades.
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Israel and Iran traded significantly escalated threats of military attacks in recent months as the FBI investigated allegations that a Pentagon official passed secret U.S. policy information about Iran to Israeli authorities.
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Controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear programme is expected to dominate a security conference in Munich.
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The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to deepen the schism between U.S.-backed Arab regimes like Egypt and Jordan that want a peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a hardline camp led by Syria that rejects peace at any price.
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President Bush and other world leaders struggled Sunday to prevent Mideast violence from exploding into a wider war. They urged Israel to show &quot;utmost restraint&quot; and blamed Islamic militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas for igniting the escalating five-day-old crisis.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of occupation and racism on Monday at the start of a visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly meeting that has sparked protests and anger.
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In a development that could heighten tensions between Israel and Iran, guerrillas of the Lebanon-based Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah succeeded, apparently for the first
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Israel's determination to set final borders with the Palestinians, a widening Palestinian humanitarian crisis and Iran's nuclear program are expected to top the agenda of Ehud Olmert's first visit to Washington next week as prime minister.
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Iran insists it will not be drawn into the Middle East fighting between Israel and Tehran's Hezbollah clients but may be unable to avoid fallout on the already difficult diplomatic struggle over its nuclear program &#151; hardening positions on all sides, experts on the talks say.
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Israel charged on Thursday that Iran had replaced Saddam Hussein as the world&#39;s primary exporter of &quot;terror, hate and instability.
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Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon on Thursday, blasting Beirut&#039;s airport and two Lebanese army air bases near the Syrian border, and imposing a naval blockade. More than 50 people have died in violence following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
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Controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear programme is set to dominate a security conference in Munich.
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Israel has stepped up preparations for a possible military incursion into Gaza over concerns that fighting between Palestinian factions may lead to renewed attacks on Israel, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Israel risks international sanctions and other serious diplomatic repercussions surrounding the barrier it is building in the West Bank and must
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An Israeli Arab has been arrested on charges of spying for Iran, a police spokesman said Tuesday, underscoring growing Israeli-Iranian tensions.
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Iran accused of threatening to place Middle East under shadow of nuclear holocaust.
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A military strike is among Israel&#39;s options to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Wednesday in the latest threat by the Jewish state against its arch-foe.