Press TV - Israel's energyminister has warned of serious risks to Israel's securityin case tensions between Iran and the United States increase. The US has recently deployed an aircraft carrier and bombers in the Persian Gulf, with the administration of President Donald Trumpstrying to increase economic pressure on Tehran. Things are heating ...

Press TV - An Israeli minister says Tel Aviv could topple the government of Syrian President of Bashar al-Assad in response to any attack by Iran against the occupying regime, hinting that the Syrian leader himself might be targeted for assassination. If Assad allows Iran to turn Syria into a military vanguard against us, to attack us from ...

Bloomberg | Ladane Nasseri &Marc Champion:The shock and awe unleashed by Saudi Arabias crown prince has prompted concern in Iran, where speculation is mounting that the U.S. and Israel will unite with the kingdom to take the fight to its bitter regional rival. It seems that plans are being drawn trilaterally and they intend to execute them, ...

Press TV - Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has for the first time revealed that Tel Aviv has had covert contacts with Saudi Arabia. We have ties that are indeed partly covert with many Muslim and Arab countries, and usually [we are] the party that is not ashamed, Steinitz said in an interview on Army Radio on Sunday. He added that Saudi Arabia ...

Israels energy minister has paid a secret visit to the (UAE) amid reports that Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi have shared concerns in the wake of the lifting of sanctions against Iran, a report says. Israels Channel 2 reported that the regimes Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz returned Monday from a visit to Abu Dhabi, where he met several Emirati officials ...

U.S. Energy Minister Ernest Moniz told Israeli diplomatic reporters in Washington a day earlier, 'If I were Israeli, I would support the Iran deal.' Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, who for the last two years has coordinated the government's response to the Iranian nuclear program, shot back athis U.S. counterpart after the latter said, "If ...

With a deal on Iran's nuclear program drawing near, Israel is beginning to look at what comes afterwards and how best to position itself for the longer term. Publicly, Israeli officials have not given up trying to influence what appear to be the closing stages of negotiations, although gaps could persist beyond an end-June deadline. Energy Minister ...

Israel has denounced Russia's decision to lift a ban on the delivery of S-300 missile systems to Iran as proof of Tehran's newfound "legitimacy" following a mutual nuclear understanding reached in Switzerland. "This is a direct result of the legitimacy that Iran is receiving from the nuclear deal that is being prepared, and proof that the Iranian ...

JERUSALEM Clearly unsatisfied with assurances from President Obama about the provisions of theIrannuclear deal,Israelon Monday listed specific requirements that it declared were necessary in any final agreement. The list, produced by Yuval Steinitz,Israels minister of intelligence and strategic affairs and one of the Israeli governments harshest ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A senior Israeli government minister on Monday warned that taking military action against Iran's nuclear program is still an option - despite last week's framework deal between world powers and the Islamic Republic. The comments by Yuval Steinitz, Israel's minister for strategic affairs, reflected the alarm in Israel over last ...

(Reuters) - Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Monday it was probable that world powers and Iran would agree a "bad deal" over Iran's nuclear program, but he would still lobby to toughen any accord before talks resume this week. "We think it's going to be a bad, insufficient deal," Steinitz told Reuters in an interview before ...

[caption id="attachment_114153" align="alignright" width="182"] A file photo of US President Barack Obama (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu[/caption] VIENNA (AP) -- The U.S. and Iran are inching toward a nuclear deal that's not as good as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants - but not as bad as he says it is shaping up to ...

Israeli Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday that the sanctions imposed on Iran were a result of Israeli efforts in this direction, Anadolu agency reported. The minister also said that these sanctions have nothing to do with the interim agreement with Iran and governments of world powers known as the P5+1. "Israel ...

[caption id="attachment_104068" align="alignright" width="167"] Israels Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz[/caption] The Israeli intelligence minister describes as an act of war a Palestinian draft submitted to the UN Security Council to end Israeli occupation by the end of 2017. The Palestinians made sure to remove any mention of Israels status ...

(Reuters) - As the United States and other powers negotiate down to the wire on a nuclear deal withIran, one voice has been unusually quiet - the main pro-Israel lobby in Washington. Israeldeeply distrusts the attempt to reach a deal at talks in Vienna that would lift harsh international sanctions onIranin return for limits to its nuclear program,...

(Reuters) -Israelsaid on Wednesday thatIranhas used its Parchin military base as the site for secret tests of technology that could be used only for detonating a nuclear weapon. The Jewish state has been a severe critic of six big powers' negotiations withIranon curbing its nuclear energy programme, suspecting Tehran is only trying to buy time to ...

[caption id="attachment_104068" align="alignright" width="252"] Israels Minister of Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz[/caption] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel's Intelligence MinisterYuval SteinitzWednesday urged theEuropean Unionnot to make a "bad deal" withIranover its nuclear program, ahead of crucial talks. Steinitz suggested outgoing EU foreign policy ...

Earlier Wednesday, the minister said Israel was lobbying world powers anew against any Iranian nuclear deal that would let Tehran retain potential bomb-making technologies. Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz briefed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Wednesday, ahead of the Iran nuclear talks. Steinitz told the MKs that he ...

(Reuters) - Israel is lobbying world powers anew against any Iranian nuclear deal that would let Tehran retain potential bomb-making technologies, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday as another deadline for the international diplomacy loomed. Negotiators hope for a comprehensive agreement by Nov. 24 under which Iran, which denies seeking nuclear ...

(Reuters) -Israeldoes not expect world powers to reach a nuclear agreement withIranby a late July deadline, a government minister said on Friday, accusing Tehran of maintaining a "hard line" at talks under way in Vienna. Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz spoke on the second day of what could be the final round of talks aimed at ending a decade-...