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Defiant Iranian Opposition Leaders Refuse to Accept Ahmadinejad Government - Thomas Erdbrink
Three opposition leaders including leading presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, former speaker of parliament and presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, and former president Mohammad Khatami openly defied Iran's top political and religious authorities Wednesday, vowing to resist a government they have deemed illegitimate after official certification of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection. They called for annulment of the June 12 vote and the continuation of protests. The three made clear that they do not oppose Iran's system of religious government, but they charged that the country is turning into a dictatorship.
(Washington Post)
See also Opposition Movement in Iran Not Over, Experts Say - Samira Simone
(CNN)
Defense Minister Barak: Settlements Question Linked to Wider Peace Initiative - Greta Van Susteren
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told FOX News Tuesday: The question of a settlement freeze is "part of a much wider issue, whether together with the United States and our Palestinian and Arab neighbors, we can launch an original peace initiative to be led by the president of the United States. Within this context, many issues had to be addressed. One of them is the settlement issue. And we already said, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in his speech, we are not going to launch new settlements, we are not going to launch new projects or suburbs in the existing settlements. We are not going to expropriate land." (FOX News)
Uneasy Recovery for Southern Israel - Heather Sharp
Six months after her sister Irit Shitrit's death in a Palestinian rocket strike, Ayelet Modoh, 37, describes how the missile exploded as the two sisters headed home from the gym in the city of Ashdod.
The siren sounded, they got out of the car, and discussed where to lie on the ground because they could not find a shelter. Then came a faint whistle, followed by a massive blast and a deadly wave of shrapnel. During the Gaza conflict, rockets fired by Hamas reached ever further into Israel - to places like Ashdod - putting hundreds of thousands more Israelis in mortal fear.
Ashdod residents were not used to the frequent sirens and the few seconds to dash to a bomb shelter, which communities nearer Gaza, such as the town of Sderot, have endured for years. In Sderot, Avi Maman, 47, a fire fighter, picks at peeling paint as he wanders through the ruins of the single storey house where he grew up and raised his three children. Debris and scraps of insulation hang from the hole in the roof left by the rocket that landed on it on Dec. 30.
A barrage of 50-60 rockets per week during the height of the conflict has dropped to about one a month, but even so, says Mayor David Buskila, the remaining threat means "you can't really feel it's over." (BBC News)
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Top news, commentary, analysis, official documents, and reference materials on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. Stay informed on the most serious threat facing the Jewish people.
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