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Obama to lay out rationale for drone strikes in Thursday speech (Reuters)
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Congo fighting persists as UN chief Ban Ki-Moon arrives for visit in nation's capital (AP)
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UK official: London shooting could be terror-related (AP)
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Iran's Ahmadinejad to challenge decision to bar his ally from presidential race (DPA)
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The Axis

by Anshel Pfeffer

What Iran has learned from the Korean crisis

While it remains unclear how serious is the North Korean threat of war, and how far its missiles can reach, the example set by Pyongyang is spurring Tehran to persevere with its own nuclear program.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Apr 4, 2013 | 09:31 PM | 20

In official photo, North Korea's Kim Jong-Un confers with Supreme Command.

North Korea to restart nuclear reactor in weapons bid
By Reuters | 1
North Korea warns military cleared to attack U.S. with nuclear weapons
By The Associated Press | 10
North Korea says it is in 'a state of war' with South Korea
By The Associated Press | 4
What to expect when you're expecting Iran to compromise
By Zvi Bar'el | 14
North Korea tells foreign embassies to consider evacuating Pyongyang
By Reuters, The Associated Press and DPA | 6
U.S. delays missile test amid mounting North Korean tensions
By Reuters and The Associated Press | 3
North Korean nuclear test not imminent, says South Korean Defense Ministry
By Reuters
As North Korea blusters, the Iranian nuclear clock ticks away
By Moshe Arens | 7

British police officers patrol outside the London 2012 Olympic Park in Stratford.

Israel has more to fear from lone actors than Iran at the Olympics

The Sunday Times' report 'Israel Fears Iran Attack at Games' is not based on any new information, and the connection between Iranian terror and London 2012 is tenuous at best.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 22, 2012 | 02:19 PM | 2

Dr. Uzi Arad

The Bulgaria attack: Hard truths from Israel's former national security chief

This is a tit-for-tat dirty war, and not just another terrorist attack. Iran needs to prove to itself and its minions that it can hit back at Israel.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 19, 2012 | 10:41 PM

Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran

Britain's MI6 chief: Iran two years away from becoming nuclear power

In first official confirmation of British intelligence operations against Islamic Republic's nuclear program, Sir John Sawers says Iran is determined 'to go down that path.'

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 13, 2012 | 01:30 PM | 9

Iran refinery - AP - 23.4.12

China is Iran's only lifeline through the sanctions, but will it be enough?

Unlike Moscow, Beijing is less committed either way in the P5+1 talks with Iran and can still decide to ally itself with either side.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 9, 2012 | 09:07 PM

Iranian Revolutionary Guards celebrate after launching a missile in an undisclosed location

The time for diplomacy with Iran is over - bring on the sanctions

It would come as a major surprise, even for the most optimistic of commentators, if anything more than yet another date for more negotiations comes out of the Istanbul talks.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 3, 2012 | 07:29 PM

Car bomb New Delhi

Iran's global terror attempts are a bid to defend its nuclear program

Western intelligence services believe that the more pressure Iran is under, the more it will resort to global terror attacks.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 2, 2012 | 11:25 PM | 8

Dolphin submarine - IDF Spokesperson - May 10, 2012

How dangerous is Iran's submarine fleet?

Should we be worried by a recent announcement Iran has retrofitted its fleet with 'the best and most equipped systems existing in the world,'and that some of the fleet is deployed to the inland Caspian Sea?

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jun 28, 2012 | 10:45 PM

Exiled Iranians in a rally near

Re-set your watches for October - the new Iran deadline

Many Israelis think that soon they will wake up and find their air forces has bombed Iran overnight; the reality, however, is that most reports you will read are just as unbelievable as they sound.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jun 26, 2012 | 07:11 PM | 4

2406_Ahmadinejad

How not to write an analysis piece on a possible war with Iran

A report published on the Business Insider website, saying Israel and the U.S. are preparing for a strike against Iran, contains nothing exclusive, no new information, and is riddled with gross inaccuracies.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jun 23, 2012 | 10:50 PM | 6

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) gives the floor to Russian President Vladimir Putin

From the start, nuclear talks between Iran and the West were doomed

The death knell was sounded over ten thousand kilometers away, in a meeting between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin that failed to present a united front.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jun 19, 2012 | 10:31 PM

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