JERUSALEM, March 25 (Reuters) - Some U.S. intelligence analysts and Middle East security officials believe that a rocket shipment seized by the Israeli navy in the Red Sea this month was destined for the Egyptian Sinai and not for the Gaza Strip, as Israel says.
A U.S. official and two non-Israeli regional sources said Israel appeared to be insisting ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Comedians say that the art of telling jokes relies on "timing". Israeli's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the world's top comic politician, seemed to be proving the point with his "timely" claims about seizing Iranian rockets aboard a cargo ship in the Red Sea.
Standing in front of 40 pointed missiles, each carefully displayed on ...
Tehran, March 11, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said the claims by the Zionist regime against Iran are just pre-engineered scenarios.
Talking to reporters during her weekly press briefing, she dismissed the Zionist regime claims saying Iran is dispatching arms to the Gaza Strip.
She said the claims were just fantasies and lies ...
A high-ranking Iranian military commander has roundly dismissed the recent Israeli allegation that Tehran sought to send missiles to the blockaded Gaza Strip as a dirty psychological operation against the Islamic Republic.
The Americans and Zionists move, which both the White House and Tel Aviv have acknowledged to be a coordinated and joint action,...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister is calling on the European Union's foreign policy chief, currently visiting Tehran, to confront Iranian officials about the weapons Israel says it caught last week en route from Iran to militants in Gaza.
Catherine Ashton is in Tehran to further negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program.
At the beginning ...
EILAT, Israel (AP) -- A captured ship Israel says carried advanced rockets from Iran bound for Gaza militants arrived to port Saturday, where authorities prepared its cargo for a public display Israel hopes will step up pressure on world powers as they negotiate with Tehran over its nuclear program.
The KLOS C freighter sailed into Israel's southern ...
Israel makes allegations against Iran to create illusions and seduce public opinion to endorse Tel Avivs hostile foreign policy agenda, a political analyst says.
The Israeli regime creates illusions out of nothing and seduce[s] people into accepting a version of reality that in fact does not exist, Mark Glenn, political commentator from Idaho said ...
Tehran, March 7, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkahm on Friday reacted to the Zionist regime?s recent claims against Iran by describing them as ?amateurish, vague and mere lies which can only be made by sick minds.?
According to a report by Foreign Ministry?s Media Diplomacy Department, Afkham said the claims and extensive ...
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Mohammad Javad Zarif tweets that Israels high seas arms bust is same failed lies, timed to line up with AIPAC.
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Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan has ...
March 5, 2014 (KHARTOUM) A senior official at Sudans ministry of foreign affairs said his country had nothing to do with an arms shipment that Israel claimed to have seized in the Red Sea off the Sudanese coast.
The senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, deniedSudan Tribunethe Sudanese government had any knowledge pf the matter, accusing ...
Mohammad Javad Zarif tweets that Israels high seas arms bust is same failed lies, timed to line up with AIPAC.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his skepticism Thursday at Israeli and US claims that the Israeli Navy had seized a ship carrying a cache of illicit Iranian arms.
An Iranian ship carrying arms for Gaza, read a tweet ...
The Hamas Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday denied Israeli reports about the seizure of an Iranian arms ship destined for the Palestinian territory, describing the allegation as an attempt to justify the years-long Israeli blockade on the enclave.
"This news only aims to justify the Israeli blockade on Gaza, especially after some public ...
Washington worked closely with Israel in intercepting a naval vessel containing arms allegedly bound for the Gaza Strip, according to the U.S. State Department.
"We were closely coordinated, our intelligence and military activities, with our Israeli counterparts, who ultimately chose to take the lead with this case," said State Department spokesperson ...
The Supreme Leaders top foreign advisor, Ali Akbar Velayati,engaged in some tough talkon Wednesday about the US, amid the nuclear negotiations and the Syrian crisis: America knows that symmetric security in the region is not possible without Iran. No country in the region is as powerful as Iran and the stability of no country is as strong as Iran.
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An Iranian deputy foreign minister has rejected Israels allegation that Tehran has sent missiles to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The allegation that a ship boarded from Iran en route to Gaza with advanced rockets is basically ...
Israeli naval forces on Wednesday intercepted a shipment of medium-range missiles near Sudan that were headed for the Gaza Strip.
Special forces from the Shayetet 13 (Flotilla 13) unit overpowered the cargo vessel named the KLOS C which is registered in Panama in the early morning hours. A search aboard the vessel uncovered dozens of 302mm rockets,...