12 juillet 2011

        Iran is fulfilling all its "duties" towards the United Nations atomic watchdog and is open to more nuclear talks with major powers, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday. Salehi spoke a day before he was due to meet with UN nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano, who has repeatedly urged Iran to step up cooperation with the Vienna-based agency and help address international concerns about Tehran's nuclear work. Western powers suspect Iran is seeking to develop a nuclear weapons... [Lire la suite]

            The United States on Monday formally protested an attack on the US embassy and the American ambassador's residence in Syria and said it will seek compensation for damage caused when a mob of what it described as about 300 "thugs" breached the wall of the embassy compound before being dispersed by US Marine guards. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned the attacks, as well as another against the French Embassy in Damascus, and demanded that Syria uphold... [Lire la suite]

           In an interview with Ynet on Monday Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon said that even Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is not interested in a UN declaration of the establishment of a Palestinian state. "He knows what it means to deal with Hamas without IDF assistance," he said. Addressing the diplomatic and security developments expected during September Ya'alon said: "I see a scarecrow in September. More threat than option, there is a... [Lire la suite]