Tensions Escalate Between Israel, Iran
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JERUSALEM - 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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A major new alliance is emerging between Iran and China that threatens to undermine U.S. ability to pressure Tehran on its nuclear program, support for extremist groups and refusal to back Arab-Israeli peace efforts.
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The attack underlines the potential of the violent Hamas-Fatah power struggle to spill over into Israel.
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IranÂs president sparred with the Council on Foreign Relations, exasperating his questioners and angering the Bush Administration and Jewish groups.
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The deputy commander of Iran's air force said Wednesday that plans have been drawn up to bomb Israel if the Jewish state attacks Iran, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  accused Iran Monday of doing everything it could to obtain  nuclear weapons, further ratcheting up the pressure on its  arch-foe.
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Israel tested a missile on Thursday, prompting Iran to vow retaliation if the Jewish state carried out recent veiled threats to launch strikes, possibly atomic, against Tehran's nuclear facilities.
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Iran will strike the Israeli reactor at Dimona if Israel attacks the Islamic republic&#39;s nuclear facilities, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards has said.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel risks international sanctions and other serious diplomatic repercussions surrounding the barrier it is building in the West Bank and must be prepared to make further changes in the ...
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The escalation of conflict over the Palestinian enclave is bad news for both Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert
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Iran&#039;s hard-line president warned Friday that continued Israeli strikes against Palestinians could lead to an Islamic &quot;explosion&quot; targeting Israel and its Western supporters.
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Iran, under fire on suspicion of  secretly seeking nuclear arms, accused the United States on  Friday of "lawless militarism" in Iraq and called Israel the  biggest threat to peace in the Middle East.
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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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JERUSALEMâIt was one of the most expensive sets of eyes Israel has ever produced, and today it was to begin watching Iran like a high-resolution hawk from the lofty vantage of 260 kilometres skyward.
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Amid growing concern that Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran&#39;s budding nuclear program, the United States is moving ahead with the transfer to Israel of 5,000
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The incident further inflamed tensions between Fatah and Hamas that had been escalating.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he cannot rule out an attack against Iran, which much of the world believes is trying to develop a nuclear weapon.Comment