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Yossi Melman

Yossi Melman

Latest Articles by Yossi Melman
Avi Dichter, Bashar Assad, Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak and Meir Dagan.
Revealed for the first time: A mission in Syria that never took place

Israel has never admitted to the 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor. This is the inside story of how the facility's existence was established and how it was destroyed.

with Dan Raviv 0 comments
Milchan - Getty Images - 2005
Israeli spy turned Hollywood producer rejects attempts to turn his story into a film

According to the New York Times, an Israeli director is seeking to turn Arnon Milchan's biography into a motion picture.

with Haaretz 2 comments
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  • Will your book on Arnon Milchan hurt Israeli security?
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Israeli soldiers Lebanon - Dror Artzi (JiniPix) - January 2012
Reshaping territory: The story of Israel's shifting borders

Does this country have an underlying strategy of expansion, or are its widening borders a natural consequence of the Arab-Israeli conflict? 'Borderline Choices' takes readers on a tour of some of the seminal decisions that have affected Israel's de facto map.

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Isfahan nuclear facility - AP - 2005
2012: The year that could bring a U.S. strike of Iran

It is obvious that recent Obama administration rhetoric is not intended only to win re-election. It is also intended to signal to Iran that the United States stands by its word.

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  • Mossad chief: Nuclear Iran not necessarily existential threat to Israel
  • Israel, U.S. discuss triggers for military strike on Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The war against Iran's nuclear program has already begun

Explosions, deadly computer viruses and other sorts of 'accidents' - someone is targeting Iran's nuclear project: either the Western intelligence agencies, internal opposition groups, or both.

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  • Former Mossad chief briefed comptroller about Iran strike plans
  • U.S. Senate approve sanctions against Iran central bank, despite Obama objection
mossad, Meir Dagan
The complicated relationship between the Mossad and Israeli media

The Mossad's attitude toward journalists: Respect them, suspect them and use them.

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Isfahan nuclear facility - AP - 2005
Report: Mysterious blast in Iran's Isfahan damaged key nuclear site

London Times quotes Israel intelligence officials as saying that satellite images show this week's reported blast in Isfahan was 'no accident.'

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  • Report: Mysterious explosion rocks Iranian city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility
  • Iran official: Blast near nuclear site caused by military mishap
  • Former Mossad chief: Israeli strike on Iran will lead to regional war
  • Former intelligence chief: Iran has material for 4 or 5 nuclear bombs
Report: Mysterious explosion rocks Iranian city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility

According to reports, frightened residents called the fire department after the blast, forcing the city authorities to admit there had been an explosion.

with Jonathan Lis 0 comments
Iranian uranium conversion facility - AP - 10112011
Iran official: Blast near nuclear site caused by military mishap

Officials provide conflicting reports concerning reports of an explosion near home of key nuclear site; U.S.: We have limited ability to confirm reports 'on the ground.'

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  • Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility
  • IDF official: Iran explosion may delay Tehran's missile development track
  • North Korea supplying Syria, Iran with prohibited nuclear technology, report says
  • Top Iran official: Israel will pay for Gaza 'crimes' if it attacks nuclear program
Isfahan blast - 28.11.2011
Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility

Semi-official Fars news agency says blast heard distinctly in several parts of the western Iran city; a uranium conversion plant near Isfahan went online in 2004.

with Reuters 82 comments
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  • North Korea supplying Syria, Iran with prohibited nuclear technology, report says
  • IDF official: Iran explosion may delay Tehran's missile development track
Syria - Google Earth - November 28, 2011
North Korea supplying Syria, Iran with prohibited nuclear technology, report says

German newspaper Die Welt reports that Pyongyang has provided the countries with ‘maraging steel,’ used to upgrade missiles and centrifuges.

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  • Iran Navy acquires new submarines amidst nuclear tension
  • Obama aide: End of Assad regime will serve severe blow to Iran
Revolutionary Guard - AP - September 2011
Iran says arrests 12 CIA agents amid reports of compromised U.S. ring

Comment by top Iranian official comes as Intelligence Online says U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers arrives in Beirut to probe reported exposure of U.S. intel squad in Lebanon.

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  • Report: Dozens of U.S. spies captured in Lebanon and Iran
  • Explosion rocks Hezbollah arms depot in southern Lebanon
  • Israel is clinging dearly to its policy of nuclear ambiguity
nuclear resesearch installation in Dimona - AFP - 24112011
Israel is clinging dearly to its policy of nuclear ambiguity

Israel has never claimed that there is no possibility it will change its nuclear policy one day. But for Israel that's a vision for the distant future.

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  • Criticism of Israel at bay as IAEA opens first meet on nuclear-free Mideast
Barak Obama - AP - 14112011
U.S. announces new Iran nuclear sanctions, avoids targeting central bank

Executive order signed by President Obama focuses on measures against Islamic Republic's petroleum industry, adds 11 individuals and entities for involvement in WMD program.

with Natasha Mozgovaya and Barak Ravid 63 comments
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  • Sarkozy urges 'unprecedented' sanctions on Iran nuclear program
  • Report: U.S., U.K., and Canada set to announce new Iran sanctions
  • Iran suspected of increasing covert nuclear work at military site
Sarkozy, Cameron - AP
Sarkozy urges 'unprecedented' sanctions on Iran nuclear program

French President urges freezing overseas assets of Iran central bank, targeting oil industry; Netanyahu: Expected U.S. sanctions will show Tehran the dear price of nuclear ambitions.

with Barak Ravid, Natasha Mozgovaya and Reuters 11 comments
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  • Report: U.S., U.K., and Canada set to announce new Iran sanctions
  • Iran suspected of increasing covert nuclear work at military site
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano - Reuters - 07112011
Criticism of Israel at bay as IAEA opens first meet on nuclear-free Mideast

Israeli representatives report relative calm at Vienna conference, after chief of UN's nuclear watchdog urges Mideast nations to focus on 'fresh thinking.'

with The Associated Press 21 comments
U.S. plans tough sanctions on Iran; 'unprecedented' isolation

U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon tells reporters while accompanying President Barack Obama to Indonesia, that U.S., China and Russia wanted to ensure Islamic Republic does not develop nuclear weapons.

with Shlomo Shamir and Natasha Mozgovaya 1 comments
Iran nuclear plant in Bushehr, AP
UN nuclear watchdog to soften Iran resolution, as gesture to China and Russia

IAEA to issue more moderate condemnation, despite recent report revealing that Iran is working toward developing nuclear weapons.

with The Associated Press 51 comments
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  • Barak: Iran nuclear program not aimed solely at Israel
  • IAEA seeks special Iran mission to address mounting nuclear concerns
iran - Reuters - November 17 2011
Speaking about Iran, Israel's leaders are delirious

Our defense minister is way off the mark when speculating about an easy war with Iran.

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  • UN nuclear watchdog to soften Iran resolution, as gesture to China and Russia
  • Iran insists Israel not behind blast that killed missile expert
  • Iran expert: U.S. elections increase likelihood of Israeli strike
iran - Reuters - November 17 2011
Iran insists Israel not behind blast that killed missile expert

Explosion at a military base near Tehran that killed 17 Revolutionary Guards was an accident, says Iranian Parliament Speaker, contrary to media speculation.

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  • Speaking about Iran, Israel's leaders are delirious
  • Iran expert: U.S. elections increase likelihood of Israeli strike
Iran blast - AP - Nov 12, 2011
Iran officials: Israel not behind deadly military base explosion

Iran parliament speaker Ali Larijani denies press speculation about Israeli involvement in blast near Tehran that killed high-ranking Revolutionary Guard commander, calling it 'fiction.'

with DPA and Reuters 50 comments
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  • Western official: Israel is behind recent Iran explosion
Iranians say nuke project hit by new computer virus

Revolutionary Guard commander killed in Saturday's munitions blast.

with Barak Ravid 0 comments
Iran nuclear Bushehr
Iran admits to facing attack by new 'Duqu' computer virus

Head of Iranian civil defense says organizations, corporations supplied with software to help them defend themselves from new virus; earlier this year Tehran admitted the Stuxnet computer worm targeted its nuclear program.

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  • Netanyahu: Iran is closer to a nuclear bomb than people think
  • Top Iran official: Tehran should reconsider cooperation with UN nuclear agency
  • Iran official: Officer killed in army camp blast was missile expert
ammunition depot outside Bidganeh - AP - 13112011
Dozens dead after explosion rocks army base outside Tehran

Revolutionary Guards say blast at Shahab missile depot an 'accident'.

with Jack Khoury, Natasha Mozgovaya and Avi Scharf 1 comments
Iran missiles - AP - November 2011
17 dead after explosion rocks Revolutionary Guards base outside Iranian capital

Explosion occurs in the village of Bidganeh where the Fifth Raad Missile Brigade, responsible for launching Shahab 3 and 4 missiles, is stationed; satellite images of the site reveal two large military bases near the village.

with Jack Khoury, Reuters, The Associated Press and Avi Scharf 79 comments
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  • Deadly explosions rock Revolutionary Guards base outside Iranian capital
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Tuba Zangaria - Yaron Kaminsky - 09102011
When the Shin Bet really doesn't want to

Repeated Shin Bet failures in solving cases of Jewish terrorism disturb and endanger the fabric of Israeli democracy, and the Shin Bet knows this well.

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Expelling the ambassador

Instead of being ashamed of its past, Lithuania is rewriting its history, granting pardons to Lithuanians who were tried after the war in Soviet courts for collaboration with the Nazis.

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Antimissile defense and the air force's chutzpah

The IAF has always opposed the development of antimissile defense systems. It didn't want the Iron Dome, and even after the system was developed, the IAF stubbornly refused to deploy it.

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Iran's response to Second Lebanon War is Israel's gain

Even if the Second Lebanon War wasn't a zero-sum game in which one side's defeat is the other side's victory, if Nasrallah and Iran are dissatisfied with the war's results, Israel's situation has improved.

13 comments
Israel's rich rightly earned their criticism

It seems that there is no limit to their lust for wealth, even as they ignore the insufferably yawning gap between their income status and the rest of the country's.

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The MIAs don't need an NGO

Throughout its years of activity and tens of millions of shekels spent, the Born to Freedom Foundation has not provided a single crumb of information about the fate of our MIAs.

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Israel has already attacked Iran

It is gradually becoming clear that Israeli intelligence, in cooperation with its American counterparts, has made a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities redundant.

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The Israeli left is also focusing on wealth rather than peace

In its willingness to lend its name to promote a business deal, the Peres Center for Peace has exceeded the boundaries of good taste.

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A Siemens building, AP
How Israel helps Iran

Israel must make it clear that whoever does business with Iran cannot benefit from doing business with Israel.

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IDF soldiers in front of the Kirya in Tel Aviv
The Temple of Security

The military censorship's philosophy is that Israeli journalists should be official spokesmen for the defense establishment, but is that what the rest of the world thinks?

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Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves lays a wreath a Yad Vashem, June 28, 2010
The Holocaust distorter from Estonia

According to the Estonian president's distorted logic, the Jewish victims who were murdered by the Estonians during the Holocaust, and the Estonian hangmen who annihilated the Jews, are "partners."

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Fresh sanctions, same old squabbles

A nuclear agreement with Brazil and Turkey lets Iran have its cake and eat it. The deal will basically allow Iran to continue enriching uranium. What has been achieved?

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Dimona nuclear power plant
For now, stay ambiguous

Israel's nuclear program and the prevailing assessment in the international community that Israel has nuclear weapons have granted it significant advantages.

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Yossi Melman / If I were Uri Blau, I'd report to the Shin Bet

In the Kamm affair, everyone has gone too far out on a limb and is having trouble backing down.

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Mossad killing of terror chiefs has little impact on Israel-Hamas war

Every terrorist, no matter how senior, is soon replaced, sometimes by someone even better or more professional.

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Israel should give up Jerusalem as its capital

Jerusalem's 'holiness' is preventing any chance of achieving a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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If Geneva fails

Iran wants to have its status recognized, to have everyone understand that it considers itself the successor of an ancient civilization. But even if it receives the amount of respect it is convinced it deserves, this will not be sufficient to solve the crisis.

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Yossi Melman / Pleas to Russia over Iran just humiliate Israel

Russia sees Israel's demand that it refrain from selling weapons to Iran and Syria as presumptuous.

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Remove Shalit negotiator now

Hagai Hadas' conduct in a medical fraud case revealed his superficiality - not a trait expected of a diligent intelligence officer.

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If only his name were Ido Tamir

Another Israeli is being held in an Arab prison, this time, in Egypt. His problem is that his name is Ouda Tarabin and he is a Bedouin, so it's easy for the authorities and Israeli public to forget him.

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Will he mention the Holocaust again?

The anticipation over the prime minister's address on Sunday stems from the curiosity about how he will respond to the challenges posed by U.S. President Barack Obama regarding the settlements and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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The military option is dead

When Israeli leaders say that "all options are open," this is nothing but a dog's bark being louder than his bite.

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Let Vanunu go

After 23 years of suffering, let Mordechai Vanunu become a free man.

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I would advise Netanyahu to attack Iran

Such a move would serve the interests of the West and the Arab world, but they can ill afford to admit it.

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The one who got away

Is it possible that the IDF soldiers were guinea pigs and that they were left to their fate for the sake of some shadowy motive which smells of foreign interests?

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