Middle East
U.S. harassed by Iranian boatsBarbara Starr CNN 01/15/2012 | Defiant Ahmadinejad wins backing of four LatAm allies Breitbart.com 01/15/2012 |
 At a time of heightened tensions with Iran, U.S. military officials told CNN Friday that U.S. military and Coast Guard ships had two close encounters earlier this month with high-speed Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf that exhibited provocative behavior. The incidents occurred January 6, according to a senior U.S. military official. |  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad headed for home on Friday after achieving his goal of securing the backing of four Latin American allies in his country's nuclear standoff with the West. |
Mossad agents posed as CIA in operation: report Breitbart.com 01/15/2012 | Iranian paper calls for retaliation against IsraelNASSER KARIMI AP 01/13/2012 |
 Agents with Israel's Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said Friday. |  A hard-line Iranian newspaper called Thursday for retaliation against Israel, a day after the mysterious killing of a nuclear scientist in Tehran with a magnetic bomb attached to his car. Iran's top leader blamed Israel and the U.S. |
Israeli parliament debate turns ugly as politician throws water over colleague The Guardian 01/11/2012 | Religious Jews still try to segregate Israel busesAMY TEIBEL AP 12/20/2011 |
 An ultranationalist Israeli parliament member faced possible suspension from the Knesset on Monday for hurling a cup of water at an Arab colleague when he told her to "shut up" during exchanges over school students attending human rights rally. |  Israel's political leaders and chief rabbis on Sunday condemned persistent efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to shunt Israeli women to the back of public buses, a year after the country's Supreme Court outlawed the practice. |
U.S. to leave Iraqi airspace clear for strategic Israeli route to IranRowan Scarborough The Washington Times 12/17/2011 | Strains on Display: No Iraqi Leaders Attend U.S. End-of-War Ceremony in BaghdadSusan Jones CNS News 12/16/2011 |
 The U.S. military’s fast-approaching Dec. 31 exit from Iraq, which has no way to defend its airspace, puts Israel in a better place strategically to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. |  Fox News Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that only a handful of Iraqis were on hand Thursday as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and U.S. military leaders formally ended the Iraq war with a subdued ceremony in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not attend the ceremony at which the flag of U.S. Forces-Iraq was officially retired. |
Israeli officials say Syria’s Bashar al-Assad is doomedJoel Greenberg The Washington Post 12/16/2011 | Iran to exploit power vacuum as US quits Iraq: analystsPatrick Markey Breitbart.com 12/16/2011 |
 In a shift, Israeli officials are welcoming the prospect that Syria’s embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, will be overthrown, an event Defense Minister Ehud Barak says could be weeks away. |  The US withdrawal from Iraq will leave a power vacuum in the Gulf, analysts say, paving the way for Iran to increase its influence in this economic and politically strategic region, a concern echoed by America's Gulf allies. |
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