Shahram Amiri is reunited with his son at Imam Khomeini airport near Tehran An Iranian scientist who says he was abducted and taken to the United States by the CIA returned to Tehran yesterday to a hero’s welcome and claimed that he had been pressured into lying about his country’s nuclear programme. Shahram Amiri said that he was on the hajj pilgrimage when he was seized at gunpoint in... 

In this image taken from undated video footage, people on board the Amalthea wave Palestinian flag at sea in unknown country. A Libyan boat carrying supplies for Gaza was sailing toward Egypt late Tuesday, July 13, 2010 instead of trying to run a naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, Israeli military officials said, apparently defusing a potential confrontation on the high seas. The Gadhafi... 

A Palestinian woman confronts Israeli police as her neighbour’s home is razed Israeli bulldozers razed six buildings in East Jerusalem, including three Palestinian homes, marking the end of Israeli efforts to refrain from contentious demolitions that could undermine peace talks. With excavators preparing to tear down one of the homes in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian suburb of Arab-dominated East... 

Israel’s immigration policies – which are the most racist in the world as they restrict settlement in Israel to those of racially Jewish descent only – are being tested to the core in the resort city of Eilat. Reports from Israel have revealed that illegal sub-Saharan African immigrants now make up 10 percent of the town’s population, numbering 5,000 out of the 55,000 strong population. Thousands... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Moscow will supply Palestinians with fifty Russian-made armored vehicles within days. “We have sent the Palestinians 50 armored vehicles, they have arrived in Jordan, and we hope that they will arrive here in the next few days,” Lavrov told reporters in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The... 

In the United States, questioning Israel is rarely a wise political move, and even suggesting an alternative to the policy of choice for whatever government is in power there at any given time is often enough to provoke angry responses from much of the US Congress, not to mention protests in Israel. But increasingly officials are admitting, if not altogether publicly, that Israel’s current right-far-right... 

USS Nassau: More US naval-air-marine muscle off Iran Debkafile’s military sources report that Washington has posted a third carrier opposite Iran’s shores. It is supported by amphibious assault ships and up to 4,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel, bringing the total US strength in these waters to three carriers and 10,000 combat personnel. The USS Nassau (LHA-4) Amphibious Ready Group... 

'Wall Street Journal': Move meant to deter Israeli preemptive attack. Iran has provided Syria with an advanced radar system that could give it early warning of an Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, quoting Israeli and US officials. According to the report, information gathered by the radar could also be used by Hizbullah to increase its defenses... 

Head of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi A senior Iranian lawmaker, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, has warned the US of imminent collapse, saying its approaches bring to mind soviet policies before disintegration. “America’s conduct toward the world bears great resemblance to that of the Soviet Union before its disintegration,” Fars News Agency... 

The son of one of the founders of Hamas is turning his back not only on the organization that now controls Gaza, but the religion that so animates the followers of the group his father helped create. Speaking on Wednesday night to the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a pro-Israel organization that focuses on radical Islam in education and media, Mosab Hassan Yousef said, “The god of Islam is... 

Israeli Attack from Caucasus Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday. Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources. Israel was, in fact, training pilots in Turkey to launch the strike and was smuggling planes into Georgia using Turkish airspace,... 

Not long ago, we reported a story about a rabbi who became famous in Israel for his book where he teaches how to kill non-Jews. Sure, but these are just plain words coming from a crazy rabbi and no one takes him serious, right? Watch the following video of an Israeli soldier who is proudly enforcing his “teachings”.  Read More »

One of the ships impounded by Israel when it raided the flotilla of aid vessels off Gaza. Boarding party troops in deadly flotilla raid confiscated cards and spent on them, claim campaigners who were on board. Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used. In their... 

Yukiya Amano The International Atomic Energy Agency is ready to help Egypt in the construction of nuclear power stations, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo. “The agency is happy to co-operate with Egypt in its nuclear energy programme,” Amano told reporters, adding that Egypt was close to finalising the project and its location. President Hosni Mubarak declared... 

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has failed in an attempt to assassinate Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Jordanian weekly says. Informed sources in Turkey say that the Mossad plot has been foiled by the country’s security forces, al-Manar quoted a report in the most recent edition of the Al-Majd weekly as saying. There are also...